Latest Wisconsin Headlines
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Wisconsin Landlord Ordered to Pay $1.3M in Fatal Fire
Apr 13 2023 // MILWAUKEE (AP) – A landlord has been ordered to pay $1.35 million for a fire that killed two people in Milwaukee in 2019, a newspaper reported. Will Sherard has shown a “reckless disregard” for the...
Wisconsin Roofing General Contract Fined $28K for Unsafe Work Conditions
Mar 31 2023 // Federal workplace safety inspectors have found that Security-Luebke Roofing Inc. – one of Fox Valley’s largest roofing general contractors – allowed a roofing subcontractor to expose workers to potentially deadly...
Wisconsin Farm Reaches $215K Pollution Settlement
Mar 27 2023 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A factory farm has agreed to pay the Wisconsin Department of Justice $215,000 to settle pollution allegations. The Legislature’s finance committee is slated to approve the deal during a...
Wisconsin High Court: UI Insurer Can’t Deduct Money That Was Paid but Reimbursed
Mar 24 2023 // Wisconsin law allows insurers to deduct from their liability any amounts paid for the same injury by a worker’s compensation carrier, but does that include amounts that are paid and later reimbursed? Secura Supreme...
Wisconsin Lawmakers Set to Vote on Tougher Riot Penalties
Mar 23 2023 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Anyone who encourages a riot or engages in violence during a riot would face felony charges under a bill Wisconsin’s Assembly is poised to take up this week. The Republican-backed measure...
Wisconsin Substance Center Owes $2M in Fraud Case
Mar 6 2023 // A federal judge has ruled that a now-shuttered Wisconsin substance abuse center and its CEO owe the state and federal government more than $2 million in a Medicaid fraud case. Online court records show U.S. District Judge...
Father of Wisconsin 12-Year-Old Sues Over Officer’s Neck Restraint
Feb 9 2023 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) – An Illinois man has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that an off-duty police officer improperly restrained his 12-year-old daughter during a fight in a Wisconsin middle school last year by placing...
Wisconsin Barley Supplier Fined $174K for Exposing Workers to Hazards
Feb 6 2023 // A Wisconsin company that supplies malt barley to major craft breweries, home breweries, and other spirit and food production in the Midwest has again been found exposing employees to dangerous workplace hazards by federal...
Dozens Injured as Snow Leads to Massive Pileup in Wisconsin
Jan 30 2023 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Dozens of people were injured in a massive traffic pileup amid snowy conditions in southern Wisconsin on Friday, which blocked Interstate 39/90 for hours, authorities said. Beloit Memorial Hospital...
Wind Turbine, Blades Collapse Onto Wisconsin Field
Jan 23 2023 // HERMAN, Wis. (AP) – A company that operates a southern Wisconsin wind farm is investigating what caused part of a wind turbine and its blades to plummet to the ground, leaving debris strewn across a field. No one was...
Lack of Safeguards Led to Wisconsin Refinery Explosion
Jan 23 2023 // Federal regulators have determined that a lack of safeguards during a maintenance shutdown led to a 2018 explosion at an oil refinery in Superior. The U.S. Chemical Safety Board released a final report on the April 2018...
Wisconsin Barley Supplier Fined $174K for Exposing Workers to Hazards
Jan 18 2023 // A Wisconsin company that supplies malt barley to major craft breweries, home breweries, and other spirit and food production in the Midwest has again been found exposing employees to dangerous workplace hazards by federal...
Nathan Houdek Reappointed as Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner
Jan 11 2023 // The Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI) announced appointments to the agency leadership and senior management team. Governor Tony Evers has reappointed Nathan Houdek as commissioner of insurance....
Wisconsin GOP Lawmakers Move Closer to Legalizing Medical Marijuana
Jan 9 2023 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Republican lawmakers who control the Wisconsin Legislature are moving closer to supporting the legalization of medical marijuana, after years of fighting efforts to loosen the state’s laws, the...
Fire Floods Wisconsin Dairy Plant With Butter
Jan 9 2023 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The state Department of Natural Resource is helping local government workers clean up after a fire flooded a dairy plant with butter. The fire broke out in a butter storage room at the Associated...
Regulators: Lack of Safeguards Led to Wisconsin Refinery Explosion
Jan 6 2023 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Federal regulators have determined that a lack of safeguards during a maintenance shutdown led to a 2018 explosion at an oil refinery in Superior. The U.S. Chemical Safety Board released a final...
Wisconsin Manufacturer Fined $250K for Workplace Hazards
Dec 13 2022 // Federal safety inspectors have determined that a falling load from a below-the-hook magnet crushed the leg of an employee at a Kewaunee heavy fabrication manufacturing company on June 7, 2022. In response to a...
AM Best Revises Outlooks to Negative for Wisconsin’s Badger Mutual
Dec 8 2022 // AM Best has revised the outlooks to negative from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a-” (Excellent) of Badger Mutual Insurance...
PCF Insurance Acquires Wisconsin’s Milz Health
Nov 16 2022 // PCF Insurance Services has acquired Milwaukee-based Milz Health Group, a full-service health insurance agency providing coverage to Wisconsin Medicare-eligible individuals and coverage through the Affordable Care Act. Milz...
Wisconsin Apartment Fire Kills 7
Oct 24 2022 // HARTLAND, Wis. (AP) – Seven people died in an apartment fire early Friday, Oct. 21 in the southern Wisconsin village of Hartland, the police chief said. “This is an active criminal investigation by the Hartland...
