Insurance

Sarah Schott has been promoted to executive officer, vice president and chief compliance officer at Northwestern Mutual. She will lead the compliance/best practices department.

Chad Tisonik has been named president of HNI Risk Services in Wisconsin.

Gov. Scott Walker's administration sent letters to an estimated 92,000 Wisconsinites today, notifying them that they no longer will be eligible for health care insurance coverage through the state's BadgerCare Plus program.

The Wisconsin Association of Mutual Insurance Companies will host its 100th annual convention from Sunday, September 8 to Tuesday, September 10 at the Country Springs Hotel in Pewaukee.

Leaders always are looking for new ways to leverage their companies' brands. But why is it that less than half of CEOs participate on social media sites?*

Insurance and employee benefits firm Lockton has opened an office in Milwaukee, at 250 E. Wisconsin Ave., 18th Floor.

Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. Inc. has acquired a leasehold interest in 3330 Hillview, a two-story, 29,744-square-foot office building in the Stanford Research Park in Palo Alto, Calif.

Brookfield-based Pinstripe Inc. today announced the addition of five new leadership team members to support record organizational growth.

Milwaukee-based Northwestern Mutual Insurance Co. Inc. has funded $200 million of a $400 million loan refinance on Union Square in Seattle, Wash.

Milwaukee-based Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. Inc. released data from its 2013 Planning and Progress Study showing that more than six in ten (63 percent) Americans say their financial planning needs improvement; and that the No. 1 obstacle is not having enough time (24 percent).