All the headlines from our District Of Columbia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 21 2014 // Every state extends insurance carriers the right to cancel a newly-written policy during the first days of the policy period. This is commonly known as the new policy “underwriting period.”An underwriting...
Nov 13 2014 // Karen Amato Privately-held insurance broker Lockton hired Karen Amato as director of Health Risk Solutions for the firm’s Washington, D.C., employee benefits operation. Amato is a registered nurse with expertise in...
Oct 30 2014 // The D.C. Council has approved a bill that regulates popular ridesharing companies such as Uber and Lyft.The bill gained initial approval on Tuesday by a 12-1 vote. Among other things, it would require that drivers for...
Oct 1 2014 // The D.C. Council is considering changing a law to give bicyclists a better chance to recoup medical costs after collisions with cars.A District liability law currently requires accidents to be 100 percent the...
Sep 22 2014 // Kyle Samuel Wells Fargo Insurance, part of Wells Fargo & Company, has named Kyle Samuel managing director for its Metro Washington, D.C., and Virginia offices. Samuel will lead business development, client service and...
Sep 17 2014 // Privately-held insurance broker Lockton Companies has hired Chris Bartnik as senior vice president. Based in Lockton’s Washington, D.C., office, Bartnik will join Lockton’s Employee Benefits business team that...
Jul 10 2014 // More than 6.5 million homes along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at risk of storm surge inundation, representing nearly $1.5 trillion in total potential reconstruction costs. More than $986 billion of that risk is...
May 20 2014 // Florida International University’s 12-fan “Wall of Wind” hurricane simulator is on display at the National Building Museum in Washington. The “Designing for Disasters” exhibit explores new...
May 7 2014 // Chester A. McPherson, who has been serving as interim commissioner for the Washington, D.C., Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking (DISB), has been appointed as acting commissioner. The appointment was announced...
Mar 28 2014 // While the federal government wades through a complicated effort to keep the National Flood Insurance Program solvent, the capital city has very little at stake in the debate.That could be changing, though. Data compiled by...
Feb 7 2014 // Lockton Cos. announced Frank Vento has joined as vice president and leader of the investment management practice in Lockton’s Washington, D.C., office.Frank VentoVento brings to Lockton more than 20 years of...
Nov 19 2013 // Starting next year, people living in the nation’s capital who don’t have legal permission to reside in the United States will be able to get driver’s licenses.Democratic Mayor Vincent Gray signed a bill...
Nov 18 2013 // Washington, D.C.’s commissioner for the department of insurance, securities and banking, William P. White, was dismissed last Friday, a day after questioning the White House’s proposal to let health insurers...
Oct 9 2013 // Lockton Companies announced Keith Mulvihill has joined its Washington, D.C., office as a producer. He will focus on new business development and managing client relationships. Mulvihill will advise clients on risk...
Sep 18 2013 // Drawing off the massive flooding in Colorado and Naval shipyard shootings in Washington, D.C., the second in a series of webinars being put on for National Preparedness Month focused on unforeseen crises as examples of the...
Sep 9 2013 // Both workers’ compensation benefits paid to insureds and costs for employers increased in 2011, a new study revealed.Total workers’ comp costs to employers rose by 7.1 percent to $77.1 billion, while...
Sep 3 2013 // Outside New York’s Winter Garden Theatre, where “Mamma Mia” is nearing the end of a 13-year Broadway run, unwitting tourists board a bus bearing the name of a company U.S. regulators tried to close two...
Aug 20 2013 // Both workers’ compensation benefits paid to insureds and costs for employers increased in 2011, a new study released today revealed.Total workers’ comp costs to employers rose by 7.1 percent to $77.1 billion,...
Aug 12 2013 // A federal judge has ordered the unsealing of settlement agreements involving a deadly Metrorail crash.U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton says the 2009 Red Line crash, which killed nine people, represents “a matter of...
Jul 1 2013 // Liberty Mutual Insurance recently announced S. Colin Dowling will lead the company’s public affairs office in Washington, D.C., as vice president for federal affairs. Dowling brings extensive public affairs...