All the headlines from our Washington Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 3 2006 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has fined the state’s largest medical malpractice insurer $450,000 for multiple violations of insurance laws and regulations that the company has since corrected under...
Oct 2 2006 // Washington’s minimum wage will increase 30 cents to $7.93 an hour beginning Jan. 1, 2007.The Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) recalculates the state’s minimum wage each year in September as...
Sep 27 2006 // Test results linking two bags of Dole brand baby spinach to a deadly E. coli strain have helped health officials hone in on a specific batch from a San Juan Bautista, Calif., processing plant that may be the source of a...
Sep 25 2006 // Easy attack “For the life of me, I cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply, because it is so easy to do.”–Dr. Jerry R. Gillespie, director of the Western Institute for Food...
Sep 25 2006 // In the next 10 years, the construction business will need to fill more than 180,000 jobs. As the rush to fill these positions advances, workers’ compensation professionals will be challenged along with the...
Sep 25 2006 // Hawaii, Washington and Wyoming proposed lowering workers’ compensation rates in their states from 2 percent to 12.3 percent.The Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs’ Insurance Division announced...
Sep 25 2006 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has appointed a veteran of the State Patrol to manage the agency’s newly authorized insurance anti-fraud program. Capt. Robert Veliz of Yakima, a 26-year veteran of the...
Sep 25 2006 // Employers are paying more attention to worker and workplace safety, which is helping states like Hawaii and Wyoming to reduce its workers’ compensation rates.Hawaii, Washington, Wyoming bringing down workers’...
Sep 25 2006 // State Patrol veteran hired for anti-fraud unitWashington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has appointed a veteran of the State Patrol to manage the agency’s newly authorized insurance anti-fraud program. Capt....
Sep 25 2006 // Easy attack“For the life of me, I cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply, because it is so easy to do.” —Dr. Jerry R. Gillespie, director of the Western Institute for Food...
Sep 25 2006 // In the next 10 years, the construction business will need to fill more than 180,000 jobs. As the rush to fill these positions advances, workers’ compensation professionals will be challenged along with the...
Sep 21 2006 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has released a report revealing that the cost of providing health care for the uninsured in Washington state has risen to more than half a billion dollars a year.According to...
Sep 15 2006 // Gary Weeks, director of the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (L&I), announced he is resigning to become executive director of the Washington Health Care Association.Weeks’ last day at L&I...
Sep 8 2006 // After operating a major insurer of the Washington’s rural hospitals and medical centers for more than three years under a court order, Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has announced his intent to sell the...
Sep 8 2006 // Montana firefighters battling a wildfire that has blackened nearly 290 square miles and burned 26 homes faced a new challenge, authorities said: bees.The blaze that started with lightning on Aug. 22 has forced hundreds to...
Sep 6 2006 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has appointed a veteran of the State Patrol to manage the agency’s newly authorized insurance anti-fraud program.Capt. Robert Veliz of Yakima, a 26-year veteran of the...
Sep 4 2006 // Washington’s Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) said that the State Attorney General’s Office has assigned a full-time assistant attorney general, Susan R. DanPullo, to assist the agency in combating...
Sep 4 2006 // Ogilvy-Hill Insurance elected Mark Shipp president and CEO. Shipp has been with Ogilvy Hill for 11 years. In addition to his new role as president/CEO he will continue to build new relationships in the field.Also, Phillip...
Sep 4 2006 // Frustrated businesses took their fight against illegal immigration to court in August, filing the first in a series of lawsuits accusing competitors of hiring illegal workers to achieve an unfair advantage.Anti-illegal...
Sep 4 2006 // Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire declared a wildfire emergency as several large fires burned in the state and forecasters predicted more thunderstorms and high winds.“Numerous wildfires across Washington pose a serious...