Wisconsin News

Integrity Mutual Names Kath as President; Schinler Retires

Appleton, Wis.-based Integrity Mutual Insurance Company recently named Darin L. Kath as president-designate, effective June 2. Richard J. Schinler, current president and chief executive officer, will retire after 25 years with the company on Dec. 31, 2008. He will remain …

Michigan Family Gets $21 Million Settlement in Door County Explosion

The three children of a Michigan couple killed in an explosion in the popular Wisconsin vacation area of Door County will receive a settlement worth more than $21 million, according to court documents. The teenage children of Patrick and Margaret …

Kotarba to Retire; McPartland Named Golden Eagle President, CEO

Golden Eagle Insurance, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, appointed Pete McPartland to president and CEO. McPartland comes to Golden Eagle Insurance from General Casualty in Sun Prairie, Wis., where he led insurance operations for QBE Regional Insurance as …

Liability Costs for Long Term Care Industry Stabilize, Aon Reports

An Aon Corp. analysis of liability in the long term care industry found for the first time in nine years of reporting that liability costs are stable on a national average basis. The study found that average general liability and …

Fiserv FSC Insurance Offers Mi-Rater, Real-Time Rating Platform

Fiserv FSC Insurance Solutions, a business unit of Fiserv, Inc. recently announced real-time rating capabilities for insurance professionals in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. According to the company statement, producers who use MI-Rater now have the capability to access real-time …

New Markets

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Wisconsin Woman’s Estate Wins Legal Victory in Med Mal Case

A Wisconsin appeals court has given a major legal victory to the estate of a deceased woman suing for medical malpractice damages. The District 1 Court of Appeals says the estate of Tywanda Luckett can argue that she was able …

Louisiana Governor Seeking Ways to Increase Number of Skilled Workers

Construction companies short of skilled workers, hospitals needing more nurses, businesses complaining they can’t fined trained employees. That was the backdrop of a 1997 labor department revamp touted by then-Louisiana Gov. Mike Foster’s administration as a way to make it …

Liberty Mutual to Acquire Safeco Insurance in $6.2B Deal

Liberty Mutual Group has agreed to acquire all outstanding shares of common stock of Safeco Corp. for $68.25 per share in cash in a deal that will make Liberty Mutual the fifth largest U.S. property/casualty insurer and second largest surety …

Fraud Roundup

2 Plead Guilty in Insurance Fraud Related Charges West Virginia officials sentenced two Kanawha County women on insurance fraud related charges, according to Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline. Tina Marie Browning, 40, of Eskdale, W. Va., was indicted on one …