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Agent Agrees to Plead Guilty in Nude Videotaping Case

ESPN reporter Erin Andrews and the man accused of secretly making nude videos of her will come face-to-face next week in a Los Angeles courtroom when the Illinois insurance executive enters an expected guilty plea. “This entire process has been …

Report: Univ. of Wisconsin Camps Should Carry Accident Insurance

Auditors are making several recommendations to limit legal liability and improve the safety of children who attend sports, music and other camps on University of Wisconsin campuses. An audit report to be presented to the UW System Board of Regents …

Drunk Driving Death Rates Decline in 40 States

Drunken driving fatality rates have fallen in 40 states and the District of Columbia, an encouraging sign that crackdowns are improving highway safety. The Transportation Department said that 11,773 people were killed in drunken driving crashes in 2008 for a …

It Figures

2.1 Million More than 2.1 million drop-side cribs from Stork Craft Manufacturing of Canada are being recalled following reports of four infant suffocations, in the largest ever recall of cribs by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Sales of the cribs …

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Wisconsin Technical College Creates Insurance Education Program

Madison, Wis., Area Technical College has launched an Insurance Certificate Program to respond the needs of the growing insurance industry in that state. Wisconsin has the 6th largest concentration of insurers in the nation employing over 65,000 people statewide and …

Katrina MRGO Ruling Could Bring New Deluge of Lawsuits

A landmark court ruling blaming the Army Corps of Engineers’ “monumental negligence” for some of the worst flooding from Hurricane Katrina could lead to a new deluge: billions of dollars in legal action from thousands of storm victims. The federal …

Survey: Health Insurance Costs 22% More in Wisconsin

A new survey finds Wisconsinites pay more for health insurance than the rest of the country and the cost is rising at a faster rate. The consulting firm Mercer finds employers and their workers in Wisconsin paid an average of …

Wisconsin Republicans Aim to Repeal Auto Insurance Mandates

Republican legislators in Wisconsin are trying to muster support for a bill that would repeal new minimum car insurance mandates. The state budget Gov. Jim Doyle signed earlier this year required all motorists to purchase liability insurance. The change raised …

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$3 Million Officials in North Dakota’s Cavalier County estimate nearly $3 million worth of damage in their county from last spring’s flooding. Cavalier County Highway Supervisor Terry Johnston says the damage is spread countywide. He said most of it involves …