Latest Wisconsin Headlines
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Wis. Assembly Passes Bill to Pin Insurers With $500 Million Fox River Cleanup Tab
Jun 29 2005 // A coalition of carriers that insured Wisconsin’s paper manufacturers thought they had successfully defeated a legislative effort to force them to pick up the estimated $500 million tab to clean up the polluted Fox...
ACUITY Names Gluch Wisconsin Sales Territory Manager
Jun 24 2005 // Sheboygan, Wis.-based ACUITY welcomes Dan Gluch as its newest sales territory manager. Gluch will handle the insurer’s northwestern Wisconsin territory. A native of Loyal, Wis., Gluch began his insurance career as a...
Insurers Dodge $500 Million Fox River Cleanup Tab-For Now
Jun 20 2005 // A coalition of carriers that insured Wisconsin’s paper manufacturers have, for now, successfully defeated a legislative effort that would have forced them to pick up the estimated $500 million tab to clean up the...
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Purchases Wisconsin’s Chris Schroeder Insurance Inc.
Apr 29 2005 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of Chris Schroeder Insurance Inc. of Milwaukee. Founded in 1888, Chris Schroeder Insurance Inc. is a property/casualty retail insurance broker offering risk...
\Asked & Answered: Wisconsin Commissioner Jose Gomez
Apr 18 2005 // John Fogerty once sang, “I ain’t no fortunate son.” As the son of an independent insurance agent who forced me to work in the office while I was growing up, I can relate to the sentiment. Wisconsin...
‘No-Cost’ Insurance Incentive Said to Boost Car Sales
Apr 18 2005 // The first test of an incentive in which an automaker paid the insurance on every new car concluded March 31 with a 23 percent rise in year-to-year sales, according to sponsors of the promotion. Two-thirds of buyers said...
‘No-Cost’ Insurance Incentive Said to Boost Car Sales
Apr 12 2005 // The first test of an incentive in which an automaker paid the insurance on every new car concluded March 31 with a 23 percent rise in year-to-year sales, according to sponsors of the promotion. Two-thirds of buyers said...
Insuring the Young and the Carless
Feb 7 2005 // VW Seeks a Sales Charge Out of No-Charge Insurance to Car Buyers Volkswagen of America, looking for ways to attract younger buyers, is going beyond sporty designs, cash rebates and zero percent financing incentives to...
No-Charge Auto Insurance Pioneer Out to Sell More VWs, Convince Skeptics Rating Model Works
Feb 1 2005 // Volkswagen of America, looking for ways to attract younger buyers, is going beyond sporty designs, cash rebates and zero percent financing incentives to offer car buyers, regardless of their risk profile, auto insurance at...
Insuring the Young and the Carless
Jan 24 2005 // VW Seeks a Sales Charge Out of No-Charge Insurance to Car Buyers Volkswagen of America, looking for ways to attract younger buyers, is going beyond sporty designs, cash rebates and zero percent financing incentives to...
VW Seeks a Sales Charge Out of No-Charge Insurance to Car Buyers
Jan 24 2005 // VW Seeks a Sales Charge Out of No-Charge Insurance to Car Buyers Volkswagen of America, looking for ways to attract younger buyers, is going beyond sporty designs, cash rebates and zero percent financing incentives to...
VW Seeks a Sales Charge Out of No-Charge Insurance to Car Buyers
Jan 24 2005 // Insuring the Young and the Carless Volkswagen of America, looking for ways to attract younger buyers, is going beyond sporty designs, cash rebates and zero percent financing incentives to offer car buyers, regardless of...
Car Buyers Get No-Charge Insurance in Volkswagen-Nationwide Pilot Program Based on Car Model Risk
Jan 3 2005 // A Long Island insurance think-tank has licensed Volkswagen of America Inc. to offer the industry’s first no- charge insurance policy to customers who purchase or lease selected models during a three-month test in...
Wis. Appeals Court: Judge Erred in General Casualty Auto Liability Limits Ruling
Dec 22 2004 // WAUSAU, Wis.—A Brown County judge erred in ruling that a car insurance policy must provide $1 million in coverage following a deadly crash involving a 16-year-old driver, a state appeals court ruled recently. The policy...
APCapital to Acquire Minority Interest in PIC Wisconsin
Oct 12 2004 // East Lansing, Mich.-based medical liability insurer American Physicians Capital Inc. announced that its subsidiary, American Physicians Assurance Corp. has entered into a stock purchase agreement as of September 17, 2004,...
After Open Records Suit, General Casualty/Rhinelander, Wis. Settlement Released
Sep 29 2004 // Details of the settlement of a lawsuit between the town of Rhinelander, Wis., and General Casualty Insurance Cos. over cleanup of a former city landfill were released Friday after an open records lawsuit. The Sun Prairie,...
Wis. Woman Convicted on Fraud Charge
Sep 20 2004 // Wisconsin Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager announced that an Oneida County woman was convicted of fraud and sentenced by Judge Steven Ebert in Dane County Circuit Court. Barbara Bergman, of Rhinelander, pled no contest...
Wis. Comp Costs Rose 11%, Still Low in Comparison
Sep 20 2004 // Midwest • Aug. 12, 2004 “Medical costs rise 11 percent or more for five consecutive years in Wisconsin, and more in other nearby states, and we wonder why? Perhaps the Journal should do a study on how much of the...
Va.’s Hilb Rogal Acquires Wisconsin Broker
Sep 17 2004 // Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Company (NYSE:HRH), a worldwide insurance and risk management intermediary based in Richmond, Va., has agreed to acquire the operating assets of Insurance Services, Inc., (Insurance Services), a...
Wis. Comp Costs Rose 11%, Still Low in Comparison
Sep 6 2004 // Midwest • Aug. 12, 2004 “Medical costs rise 11 percent or more for five consecutive years in Wisconsin, and more in other nearby states, and we wonder why? Perhaps the Journal should do a study on how much of the...
