Latest Wisconsin Headlines
All the headlines from our Wisconsin Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Wisconsin 3rd in U.S. in Alcohol-Related Boating Deaths
May 28 2013 // Wisconsin had the nation’s third-highest number of alcohol-related boating deaths last year, the same year a legislative bill to stiffen penalties on drunken boaters went nowhere. Intoxicated boating killed eight...
Wisconsin Bill Would Require $50 Tobacco Use Fee for Health Insurance
May 23 2013 // Wisconsin state workers who smoke would have to pay $50 more per month for health insurance under a Gov. Scott Walker proposal that has won approval by the Legislature’s budget committee. The Joint Finance Committee...
Wisconsin Police Aggressive in Redacting Accident Reports
May 22 2013 // Brenda O’Malley figured she’d get the police accident report and file an insurance claim after her teenage daughter got into a car accident in Sheboygan Falls this past spring. But the report turned out to be...
The Main Street America Group Expands Commercial Products into Wisconsin
May 21 2013 // The Main Street America Group has introduced its commercial product line, featuring its Main Line Business Owners Policy (Main Line BOP), to independent agents who represent the super regional property/casualty insurance...
Motorcycle Group Holds Power in Wisconsin Helmet Debate
May 20 2013 // Wisconsin is coming off its deadliest year for motorcyclists in a generation, but lawmakers are considering no new helmet laws. Three in four of those riders who were killed did not wear a helmet. But Wisconsin...
Wisconsin Congressmen Propose Changes to Crop Insurance Bill
May 16 2013 // Two Wisconsin congressmen are proposing changes to the nation’s crop insurance program that they say will save the federal government $11 billion over the next 10 years. Democratic Rep. Ron Kind and Republican Rep....
Wisconsin Assembly Passes Asbestos Lawsuit Bill
May 10 2013 // The Wisconsin Assembly has passed a bill opponents say would slow asbestos-exposure lawsuits. The measure would require plaintiffs to reveal how many businesses their attorneys plan to go after. Republican supporters say...
FEMA App for Collecting Damage Info Being Tested in Wisconsin
Apr 17 2013 // Some emergency management directors in Wisconsin are testing a new application from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Outagamie County director Julie Loeffelholz says the process for collecting disaster damage...
Severe Storms Hit Midwest With Snow, Ice, Winds
Apr 12 2013 // Strong storms sweeping across the Midwest damaged homes and businesses in St. Louis, toppled mobile homes and ripped the roof off a Missouri church, while burying other areas in more than a foot of snow. Missouri Gov. Jay...
Wisconsin Lawmaker Defends Change to Asbestos Lawsuit Rules
Apr 9 2013 // Asbestos-exposure lawsuits would be slowed until plaintiffs reveal how many businesses their attorneys plan to go after under a bill introduced by a Republican lawmaker, who said the measure would prevent lawyers from...
Few Wisconsin Communities Have Sober Bartender Laws
Mar 28 2013 // The eastern Wisconsin city of Neenah is considering an ordinance that would require bartenders to show up for work sober – and ban them from drinking on the job. The ordinance would let police hold bartenders accountable...
SeaFire Insurance Services Seeks Agency Partners in Wisconsin, Illinois
Mar 27 2013 // Overland Park, Kan.-based SeaFire Insurance Services announced it is actively seeking new agency partners in Wisconsin and Illinois for its exclusive auto dealer and repair insurance program. SeaFire will consider...
J.M. Wilson Announces Office Moves in Illinois, Wisconsin
Mar 19 2013 // Managing general agency, J.M. Wilson Corp., announced that its Illinois and Wisconsin branches have moved to new locations. With support from other branch offices and the home office in Portage, Mich., the moves went...
Wisconsin Woman Loses Privacy Lawsuit Against Google
Mar 11 2013 // A federal appeals court has dismissed a Wisconsin woman’s lawsuit against Google Inc. alleging that it was using her name to generate revenue through online advertising. Beverly Stayart, of Elkhorn, alleged that if...
Audit: Wisconsin Medical Malpractice Fund Healthy
Mar 11 2013 // A new report says Wisconsin’s medical malpractice insurance fund is rebounding from a massive transfer and the economic downturn. The Legislative Audit Bureau has released a study that found the fund’s net...
Former Wisconsin Insurance Executive Sentenced to 5 Years for Fraud
Feb 25 2013 // A former Wausau, Wis., insurance agency executive has been sentenced to five years in prison for a fraud scheme, the Associated Press reported. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Wisconsin said...
Former Wisconsin Insurance Executive Sentenced to 5 Years for Fraud
Feb 15 2013 // A former Wausau, Wis., insurance agency executive has been sentenced to five years in prison for a fraud scheme. Former J.N. Manson Agency Inc. (Manson) CEO Timothy Mathwich had been indicted by a grand jury in June 2012...
Wisconsin’s McClone Acquires Burkart-Heisdorf Insurance Agency
Feb 4 2013 // Two independent insurance agencies in Wisconsin have joined forces with the acquisition of Burkart-Heisdorf Insurance Agency Inc. by McClone. The acquisition was completed Dec. 31, 2012, the companies announced. McClone,...
Wisconsin Couple Can’t Collect in Birth Control Mix-Up
Feb 1 2013 // A clinic that mistakenly gave vitamins instead of birth-control pills to a Wisconsin woman doesn’t have to pay to raise the child she conceived but can be sued for other financial damages, a state appeals court has...
Liability Law Leaves Wisconsin Man with Little Recourse after Highway Mishap
Jan 28 2013 // A Wisconsin man who was blinded in one eye after a chunk of concrete flew through his windshield last spring isn’t finding many avenues for recourse. That’s because of the state’s “pothole-liability...
