All the headlines from our District Of Columbia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 16 2012 // The Washington-area Metro transit agency has settled seven of nine lawsuits by families of people killed in a 2009 train crash.Metro also told a judge it is admitting legal responsibility for the deadliest accident in the...
Feb 9 2012 // About 90 District of Columbia workers have been suspended and may be fired after officials determined they received unemployment checks while holding city jobs. The Washington Post reported this week that another 60 former...
Feb 7 2012 // Attorney General Martha Coakley is heading to Washington to make a legal case for the national health care law that was modeled after Massachusetts’ own landmark 2006 health care law.On Thursday Coakley will defend...
Jan 5 2012 // Lockton Affinity, an insurance program management division of brokerage firm Lockton Companies, appointed Sara Payne as senior vice president. Payne brings expertise in areas of creation and operation of Defense Base Act...
Dec 20 2011 // Washington, D.C.’s top insurance regulator is advising consumers to review their insurance policies and see whether they are covered for common winter activities.William White, commissioner for the District of...
Nov 17 2011 // Lockton Benefit Group of Lockton Companies appointed Nicholas Dobelbower as senior consultant for its international benefits services practice. Based in Washington, D.C., he will provide international employee benefits...
Nov 17 2011 // Lockton Benefit Group of Lockton Companies announced the expansion of its International Benefits Services practice with the addition of Nicholas Dobelbower, Ph.D., as Senior Consultant. His primary role “is to...
Nov 9 2011 // BDO Consulting, a professional services provider, appointed Clark Schweers as managing director and head of its insurance claim services practice.Based in Washington, D.C., Schweers will advise clients on complex property...
Oct 21 2011 // The Washington, D.C., Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking is advising consumers to be mindful of con artists who lurk in the virtual shadows in online social networking sites.People should make sure they know...
Oct 17 2011 // Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority recently filed a lawsuit against its insurer Lexington Insurance Co. of Boston charging that that the insurer failed to indemnify for the revenue losses in the train...
Oct 4 2011 // Lockton Companies, a Kansas City, Mo.-headquartered insurance broker, hired Jenna Kirkpatrick Howard for its Washington, D.C., brokerage team as a producer. Prior to joining Lockton, she was construction practice leader in...
Oct 4 2011 // An insurance agency founder was recently placed on four years of supervised release and fined $10,000 in Washington, D.C., after earlier pleading guilty to insurance fraud, according to officials.Washington, D.C.,...
Sep 30 2011 // Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has recently filed a lawsuit against its insurer Lexington Insurance Co. of Boston charging that that the insurer failed to indemnify for the revenue losses in the train...
Sep 22 2011 // Ames & Gough, an insurance broker and risk management consultant specializing in serving design professionals, law firms and other professional organizations and consulting firms, has promoted four officers.Ames &...
Aug 29 2011 // The nation’s capital has prepared for emergencies with sleek communication systems, intelligence fusion centers and chemical detention centers at train stations.What showed during the 5.8-magnitude quake that shook...
Aug 24 2011 // The Hanover Insurance Group added a new District of Columbia Metro branch office in Reston, Va.Located in the Reston Executive Center at 12100 Sunset Hills Road, the new branch office will address commercial insurance...
Aug 16 2011 // The number of workers covered by workers’ compensation dropped by 4.4 percent in 2009, the biggest decrease in two decades.Also, according to a report by the nonprofit National Academy of Social Insurance, employer...
Jun 2 2011 // Insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Independent Fiduciary Services Inc. (IFS), a Washington-based institutional investment advisory firm.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1986,...
May 2 2011 // Hays Cos. of Washington, D.C. has named Shari Pataky senior vice president. She will focus on professional liability insurance and affinity programs for non-profits and associations as well as other business development...
Mar 11 2011 // New Jersey-based broker Couch Braunsdorf Insurance Group has hired Todd Routzahn as a regional sales director for its professional liability division. Routzahn will focus on the Washington D.C. area, and help grow the...