Latest Wisconsin Headlines
All the headlines from our Wisconsin Topic Page, ordered by recency.
New Wisconsin Consumer Complaint Form in Spanish
Sep 21 2009 // Spanish-speaking Wisconsinites who want to file an insurance-related complaint can now do it online. The state Department of Insurance has a new online complaint form that allows the filer to complete it all in...
Wisconsin Democrats Promise Crackdown on Drunken-Drivers
Sep 17 2009 // Democrats who control the Wisconsin Legislature promise to focus on cracking down on drunken driving this fall, among other priorities. The state Senate began its fall session Tuesday and the Assembly starts Wednesday. The...
Wisconsin to Hold Hearing on Insurer Use of Credit Information
Sep 10 2009 // Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Sean Dilweg will hold a hearing Sept. 14 on the use of consumer credit information in personal lines insurance policies. The public hearing with invited testimony will take place beginning...
Wisconsin Troopers Aggressively Enforcing Seat Belt Law
Aug 25 2009 // Wisconsin state troopers are aggressively enforcing the new state law that requires drivers to wear seat belts. The law that went into effect in July gives officers the right to pull over and ticket drivers for not wearing...
Appeals Court Sides with Wisconsin Trucker in Insurance Dispute
Aug 3 2009 // A northeast Wisconsin trucker has won another legal battle involving an insurance claim he filed after hitting a deer in 2002. Court records say what started as a $7,500 claim has since mushroomed to nearly $250,000 in...
Insurer Dropped as Defendant in Wisconsin Diocese Case
Jul 20 2009 // A judge has dropped an insurance company from a lawsuit accusing the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay, Wis., of covering up a priest’s sexual assaults. Milwaukee-based Indiana Insurance Co. asked to be dropped from the...
Wisconsin Court Tosses Lawsuit Against John Deere Over Mower Mishap
Jul 15 2009 // The Wisconsin Supreme Court says a father who accidentally severed the feet of his two-year-old son with a riding lawnmower cannot hold the manufacturer liable for the injury. In a 4-2 decision, the court ruled that...
Insurance Keeps Costs From Fire at Wisconsin’s Smithfield Foods in Check
Jul 15 2009 // Smithfield Foods Inc. said Tuesday that fire damage at its Patrick Cudahy meat plant in Cudahy, Wisconsin, should not have a measurable affect on its earnings or liquidity. Partial production has resumed in areas of the...
Wisconsin Court: Witnesses Cannot Seek Medical Damages
Jul 13 2009 // The Wisconsin Supreme Court on July 10 tossed out a $200,000 award to a father who watched one of his twin sons die during birth in 1998. In a decision praised by doctors but criticized by trial lawyers, the court ruled...
Wisconsin Lawmakers Mull Property Insurance Breaks for Governments
Jul 13 2009 // Some state lawmakers in Wisconsin want to give local governments a one-year break from paying their property-insurance premiums. Hundreds of cities, towns and school districts insure their property with a state fund...
Wisconsin Regulators Release List of June 2009 Administrative Actions
Jul 8 2009 // The Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance has published a list of administrative actions for June 2009. The regulators noted that in many of these cases the respondent denied the allegations but consented to...
Car Insurance Mandate in Wisconsin Budget; No Driver’s Card for Illegals
Jun 29 2009 // Wisconsin drivers would have to buy liability insurance for their vehicles but illegal immigrants would not be issued special cards so they could drive legally on the state’s roads under the state budget poised to...
Wisconsin’s Capitol Insurance Adds Commercial Auto Coverage
Jun 25 2009 // Capitol Insurance Companies (Capitol) based in Middleton, Wis., has launched a commercial automobile insurance product. The company said the product is available for appointed insurance agents and brokers through a newly...
Groups Lobby for Wisconsin Driver’s Card for Immigrants
Jun 24 2009 // Allowing illegal immigrants to qualify for special driver’s cards would make the roads safer, reduce insurance rates and generate much-needed revenue for state government, supporters of the proposal said. Supporters...
Insurer Groups at Odds with Proposed Wisconsin Auto Insurance Bill
Jun 23 2009 // Wisconsin lawmakers are considering legislation that would increase costs for low- and middle-income insurance consumers, according to the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) and the Property...
Wisconsin Democrats Back Away From Liability Change
Jun 12 2009 // Wisconsin Assembly Democrats backed away from changes to the state’s contributory negligence law pushed by Gov. Jim Doyle and trial attorneys but opposed by a coalition of businesses and others. Democrats voted...
Businesses Object to New Wisconsin Law Allowing Punitive Damages
Jun 10 2009 // Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle, has signed into law Senate Bill 20, which enhances discrimination protections for workers in the state. The bill requires employers with more than 15 employees who are convicted of engaging in...
Ex-Wisconsin Insurance Executive Charged in Scam
Jun 5 2009 // A former Wisconsin insurance executive and a business associate have been indicted on charges of carrying out what prosecutors called a years-long scam to defraud a major insurer of more than $800,000. An indictment...
Wisconsin Proposal to Increase Driver Liability Coverage Still Being Evaluated
May 29 2009 // Wisconsin Republicans have failed in an attempt to remove a budget provision they say will cause car insurance rates to increase in the state. The proposal, submitted by Gov. Jim Doyle, proposes to increase the minimum...
Wisconsin Supreme Court Upholds Traffic Stop of Drunk Driver
May 28 2009 // The Wisconsin Supreme Court says police were within their rights to pull over a drunken driver whose vehicle briefly crossed the center line. The case involves Michael Popke, who was stopped in 2007 in New London after an...
