Latest Wisconsin Headlines
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Wisconsin Corn Mill Officials Indicted For 2017 Fatal Explosion
May 17 2022 // A federal grand jury has indicted the operator and six management officials of a Cambria, Wisconsin corn mill – where a May 31, 2017, explosion killed five workers and injured 15 others – on nine criminal counts,...
Wisconsin Officials Issue Wildfire Warnings
May 10 2022 // Wisconsin officials issued wildfire warnings across the state this past weekend. The state Department of Natural Resources has listed 52 counties in the “very high risk” category for fires, mostly in the...
Wisconsin County Sues Foam Makers Over PFAS Pollution
May 9 2022 // Dane County, Wisconsin officials are suing dozens of fire-fighting foam manufacturers alleging their products contaminated the area around the county’ airport. The Wisconsin State Journal reported that the county is...
Report: Wisconsin Refinery Knew About Issues Before 2018 Blast
May 5 2022 // Officials at a northwestern Wisconsin oil refinery knew about equipment issues years before a 2018 explosion there, according to Occupational Safety and Health Administration documents obtained by Wisconsin Public...
Balcony Collapse at Wisconsin Block Party Injures 3
May 3 2022 // Two people were taken to a hospital after a second-floor balcony collapsed and sent roughly a dozen people falling 15 feet to the ground during a annual block party in Madison that attracted thousands of college...
Obama Relatives Sue Wisconsin School Alleging Racial Bias
Apr 22 2022 // The brother of former first lady Michelle Obama and his wife are suing a private Milwaukee school alleging it refused to allow their two sons to re-enroll after they voiced concerns that racism and inappropriate conduct at...
Wisconsin Marijuana Legalization Proponents Get to Make Case
Apr 21 2022 // Proponents of legalizing marijuana in Wisconsin, for either medical or recreational use or both, get their first chance to make their case at a public hearing of a legislative committee Wednesday. The Senate committee...
Wisconsin Manufacturer Cited After Worker Injured by Machine
Apr 14 2022 // An employee working at Crystal Finishing Systems Inc.’s aluminum extrusion facility in Weston, Wisconsin was hospitalized with serious injuries after being struck by a puller machine while trying to unjam a piece of...
Relation Acquires Wisconsin’s Woller-Anger
Mar 30 2022 // Relation Insurance Services, Inc. announced it acquired the assets of Wisconsin-based Woller-Anger & Company. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Woller-Anger & Company is a full-service retail insurance...
Wisconsin AG Sues Johnson Controls, Tyco Fire Products Over Alleged PFAS Pollution
Mar 15 2022 // Wisconsin Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul filed a lawsuit March 14 against Johnson Controls and Tyco Fire Products over PFAS pollution in northeastern Wisconsin. The lawsuit, filed in Marinette County Circuit Court,...
Wisconsin Roofing Contractor Cited by OSHA For 2nd Time in 6 Months
Mar 14 2022 // Despite the serious consequences of its actions, an Appleton, Wisconsin-based contractor was again cited for exposing workers to deadly fall hazards after a U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health...
Wisconsin McDonald’s Operator Settles EEOC Race Discrimination Claim
Mar 2 2022 // Pensec, Inc., a Wisconsin corporation which operates nine McDonald’s fast food restaurants, will pay $31,137 and furnish other relief to resolve a race discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment...
Wisconsin Assembly Passes Bill Protecting Gun Makers From Lawsuits
Feb 24 2022 // The Wisconsin Assembly passed a Republican-authored bill that would limit gun and ammunition manufacturers’ legal liability, a move that could protect them from big payouts following a mass shooting. Under the bill,...
Market Your Agency to Build a Profitable Book of Surety Bond Business
Feb 22 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by Old Republic Surety. Do you want to build a book of surety business at your agency, but you’re not sure how to get started? Have you been selling surety bonds, but want to...
Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Announces Nearly $5 Million Recovered in 2021
Feb 18 2022 // Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Nathan Houdek announced this week that the Consumer Affairs section, in conjunction with the legal liaisons and the legal department, at the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI)...
Wisconsin High Court Limits Bodily Injury Coverage to Insured Persons
Feb 17 2022 // An auto insurer is not required to pay underinsured motorist benefits to the son of man who was killed in an auto crash because the father was not insured by its policy, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in an...
Wisconsin School District Sued For Pay Discrimination
Jan 31 2022 // Verona Area School District, which serves Verona and parts of Fitchburg and Madison, Wisconsin, violated federal law when it paid female special education teachers and a school psychologist lower wages than male employees...
Group Delivers Whistleblower Documents on Wisconsin Clergy Abuse
Jan 20 2022 // An advocacy group working to end clergy abuse in Wisconsin has delivered thousands of documents from Wisconsin’s five Catholic dioceses to the state attorney general, documents it says show a systemic coverup of...
Wisconsin Senior Apartment Building Fire Kills 3
Jan 20 2022 // Three people have died as a result of a fire at a senior apartment building in southeastern Wisconsin that also injured several others, officials said. Kenosha Fire Chief Christopher Bigley said in a statement Tuesday the...
NWS Says December Storm Spawned 8 Tornadoes Across Wisconsin
Dec 28 2021 // The National Weather Service has confirmed a rare December wind storm spawned eight tornadoes across west-central Wisconsin. .The Dec. 15 storm swept across multiple states. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that the...
