All the headlines from our Washington Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 14 2006 // Failing to have a workers’ compensation account and pay premiums has landed an Oak Harbor, Wash., employer in jail.Mark Dahl, sole owner of Catalina Marine Services Inc., pleaded guilty to a Class C Felony in...
Feb 13 2006 // To help ensure that employers are promptly notified of a workplace-injury claim, Washington’s Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) has created wallet cards that employers can fill out and give to their...
Feb 13 2006 // A measure to improve Washington’s emergency readiness passed the state Senate, after a lawmaker agreed to bend to insurance industry insistence that the $5.7 million needed come from the state and not a surcharge on...
Feb 10 2006 // New York-based Willis Group Holdings Ltd. has announced plans to open a brokerage office in Washington to service the Inland Northwest. The office will be managed by Curtis Taylor.The company said it hopes to fill a...
Feb 8 2006 // An investigation of Washington insurance brokers and brokerages spawned by a national scandal in the insurance industry has not uncovered criminal or unethical behavior in the state, according to a report released by...
Feb 3 2006 // More than 2,000 current and former employees of California State University, East Bay, may have had their Social Security numbers and other personal information breached during a suspected break-in of a computer server on...
Jan 30 2006 // Seventy-nine workers died on the job in Washington in 2005, the Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) said. That’s down from 93 the year before. The most common cause of death was motor vehicle accidents,...
Jan 23 2006 // In Olympia, Wash., a legislative committee amended and passed legislation that is designed to assist consumers injured in intentional “road rage” collisions — and protect insurers against auto insurance...
Jan 22 2006 // Washington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler wants to create a new fraud unit to investigate staged traffic accidents. Those can involve a network of lawyers, doctors, chiropractors and physical...
Jan 18 2006 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler offered testimony this week on commissioner-request legislation that would establish an anti-fraud unit within the Office of the Insurance Commissioner.Washington is one of...
Jan 16 2006 // A key legislative committee this week amended and passed legislation in Washington that is designed to assist consumers injured in intentional “road rage” collisions – and protect insurers against auto...
Jan 11 2006 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler was to testify on commissioner request legislation this week designed to prevent what happened to Ethel Adams last March from happening to any other Washington insurance...
Jan 9 2006 // On Feb. 1, the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of Washington, Surplus Line Association of Washington, Insurance Agents and Brokers of the West (IBA West), WA Council of National Association of Insurance Women,...
Jan 4 2006 // The Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) has selected Seattle audit and consulting firm Miller & Miller to review the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) administration of workers’ compensation...
Jan 3 2006 // Rainier Pacific Financial Group Inc. reported that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Rainier Pacific Bank, has completed its acquisition of the property and casualty insurance businesses of Christopherson-Boze Insurance...
Jan 3 2006 // The acquisition of a Washington-based health care service contractor as part of a national merger involving 10 states was approved recently by Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler’s office.The acquisition of...
Dec 29 2005 // Washington’s minimum wage will increase 28 cents to $7.63 an hour beginning Jan. 1, 2006. The Department of Labor and Industries recalculates the state’s minimum wage each year in September, as required by...
Dec 28 2005 // Washington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler wants to create a new fraud unit to investigate staged traffic accidents. These can involve a network of lawyers, doctors, chiropractors and physical...
Dec 27 2005 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners recently announced that two key management positions in the Association’s Government Affairs office in Washington, D.C. have been filled. New staffers Cheye Calvo...
Dec 19 2005 // Ohio Casualty Corporation has completed a new five-year agreement with its current president and chief executive officer, Dan R. Carmichael. The prior contract with Carmichael was to expire on Dec. 31, 2005. Carmichael...