Wisconsin Car Insurance

Birthday ends in tragedy

Two best friends from Connecticut and two roommates – one who was celebrating her 23rd birthday – were the victims of the fiery car crash early Wednesday morning on George Rogers Boulevard.

The victims, two of whom were USC students, died on impact when the Dodge Charger they were riding in slammed into the Farm Bureau Insurance building at the Shop Road intersection, said Richland County Coroner Gary Watts. A third person was a former USC student, and the fourth victim worked at Wild Hare Sports Cafe in the Vista.

Police were re-enacting the wreck Friday, hoping to gain a better understanding of what happened.

Many USC students friends and colleagues of the victims of Wednesday's fatal accident at the corner of George Rogers Boulevard and Assembly Street met in the Farm Bureau Insurance parking lot to pay their respects and mourn the loss of the four young adults.Rebecca Harwood, who worked with Mindy Pipp, kneels in the charred remains of the car.

- , 24, who was from Wisconsin but lived in Columbia, who was riding in the rear driver seat

McGrath and Fuess had been best friends since high school, Watts said. McGrath was a history major at USC, and Fuess was a student there last semester.

Harris and Pipp recently had become roommates in a cottage on Bratton Street in Melrose Heights. Both worked in the restaurant industry. Pipp was on the staff at Wild Hare, and Harris was a part-time server at Harper’s Restaurant in Five Points.

It was unclear Thursday how the two men and two women knew each other.

USC president Harris Pastides released a statement expressing the school’s sorrow over losing “three members of our university family.” He offered free grief counseling to students and faculty who need help coping.

“Losing a young life is the most painful experience and yesterday four vibrant spirits were lost,” Pastides wrote. “Please keep their surviving family and friends in your thoughts and prayers.

Wisconsin's Auto Insurance Law Changes Hurt Consumers ...

Milwaukee, WI (PRWEB) June 09, 2011

Charles Hausmann, president of Hausmann-McNally S.C. says Wisconsin not only has the best pro football team in the world—our beloved Green Bay Packers– it also holds another, less prestigious, distinction. The state now leads the nation in driving a pro-corporate and anti-consumer insurance agenda. The state’s “Truth in Auto Insurance” bill was repealed by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, and replaced by Assembly Bill 4, which will benefit insurance companies to the detriment of people who drive cars, trucks and motorcycles. These changes will likely affect people all across the U.S. as the political influence of the insurance lobby is showing up in new state rules governing auto insurance.

Here are key changes: The changes in Wisconsin law, scheduled to go into effect on November 1, 2011, are supposed to enable the auto insurance consumer be able to buy cheaper insurance. They do this by lowering the liability insurance limits that people must carry. Hausmann believes the law enables insurance companies to sell their most profitable product (the lower-limit policies) and steers consumers away from more sensible and reasonably priced policies. In essence, the government is encouraging consumers to purchase an inferior and inadequate product.

The mandatory minimum liability limits on automobile insurance policies were reduced from $ 50,000 -$ 100,000* to $ 25,000-$ 50.000. (*The first number indicates the limit of how much one victim could receive from the policy per accident, the second number is the maximum amount per accident that can be paid out in the case of multiple victims.)

“Think about it,” Hausmann said. “How easy is it for one auto accident victim to have more than $ 25,000 in medical bills? How easy is it for a van load of people to rack up medical bills, lost income, and other damages of more than $ 50,000?

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