All the headlines from our District Of Columbia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 17 2017 // A bus carrying dozens of Pennsylvania eighth-graders to Washington, D.C., for a field trip overturned on Interstate 95 in northeastern Maryland on Monday, state police said. Officials said one child and one teacher were...
May 11 2017 // Lawyers for Donald Trump on Wednesday said the U.S. president has “absolute immunity” from a lawsuit by owners of the Cork Wine Bar in Washington, D.C., who claim that his ownership of a nearby hotel...
Oct 31 2016 // Private employers reported approximately 2.9 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses in 2015, or about 48,000 fewer than in 2014, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.That translates into a rate of...
Aug 24 2016 // Lockton Companies, a Kansas City, Mo., based insurance brokerage, has hired George Bailey as a senior vice president in its Washington, D.C. office. He brings nearly 25 years of experience in the employee benefit and risk...
Aug 18 2016 // Boston Insurance Brokerage Inc. (BIB), a provider of commercial insurance, tapped Brian Lynch, vice president of high value personal lines, to head the opening of its office in Washington D.C. Lynch initially joined the...
Jul 21 2016 // U.S. antitrust enforcers roundly rejected a pair of proposed deals that would consolidate the nation’s five biggest health insurers into just three.The Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit to stop Anthem...
Jun 17 2016 // Insurance broker Lockton announced that it will add its Washington, D.C., operations to a newly combined Lockton Northeast team. Michael Calabrese will remain as chairman and CEO of the expanded Lockton operations in the...
Jun 1 2016 // More than 6.8 million homes on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are in danger of hurricane storm surge damage. The total cost for reconstruction of the homes located in 19 states and the District of Columbia is more than $1.5...
May 18 2016 // The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) has filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against Travelers Indemnity Company and Travelers Casualty Insurance Company of America, accusing the insurers of engaging in actions that...
May 13 2016 // The District of Columbia Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking (DISB) said it has received 170 proposed health insurance plan rates for review from four major insurers in advance of the fourth year of open...
Mar 4 2016 // Lockton Companies has hired Brandon Luckett as vice president in its Washington, D.C., office., where he will help develop new business throughout the Mid-Atlantic Region. Luckett comes to Lockton with more than 12 years...
Feb 23 2016 // Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has hired Edith Quintrell as its U.S.-based underwriting development director for its Global Financial Risks division. Quintrell previously was...
Jan 27 2016 // Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser says a snow emergency will remain in effect for the nation’s capital until 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.The emergency means parking isn’t allowed on snow emergency routes. Vehicles...
Jan 26 2016 // The massive blizzard that swept through the East Coast over the weekend may result in hundreds of millions of dollars in insured losses.The blizzard, unofficially named “Winter Storm Jonas” by the Weather...
Sep 18 2015 // Risk Cooperative, a Washington, D.C.-based insurance brokerage and risk management firm, recently announced the launch of its Comprehensive Benefits practice. Risk Cooperative said the new practice aims to help small to...
Sep 14 2015 // The District of Columbia Department of Insurance, Securities & Banking (DISB) announced on Sept. 11 that it has launched city-wide surveys to study the barriers to banking services for District of Columbia residents...
Sep 7 2015 // The District of Columbia, Maine and Pennsylvania have recently joined a growing number of states and jurisdictions that issued directives prohibiting the use of price optimization.In Washington, D.C., the Department of...
Aug 28 2015 // The District of Columbia’s Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking (DISB) this week issued a bulletin notifying property/casualty insurers doing business in the District that price optimization is...
Aug 17 2015 // New research says the land under the Chesapeake Bay region is sinking and projects that Washington, D.C., could drop by six or more inches in the next century — adding to the problems of sea-level rise.The research...
Aug 3 2015 // Stephen Taylor The District of Columbia Department of Insurance, Securities & Banking (DISB) confirmed that former DISB senior official Stephen Taylor recently rejoined DISB as its new acting commissioner. Taylor...