All the headlines from our Washington Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 3 2005 // In what may become a significant step toward regulatory modernization of property and casualty insurance in Washington state, the governor has signed into law legislation sought by the Office of Insurance Commissioner that...
Apr 29 2005 // Despite early signs that the 2005 session of the Washington Legislature would impose a series of costly and burdensome measures on the insurance market, the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) saw the...
Apr 26 2005 // The failure of four bills introduced during the Washington State legislative session that would have banned or added further restrictions to the use of credit-based insurance scoring as an underwriting tool may send the...
Apr 21 2005 // Insights on the Washington, D.C. scene and the current American political and economic landscape will be presented by columnist George F. Will, the featured speaker during the American Institute for Chartered Property...
Apr 18 2005 // There probably are few American small business owners who could correctly identify the federal group whose primary job is to keep the president of the United States updated on the activities of government such as...
Apr 14 2005 // The PIA Western Alliance Board of Directors has elected its first set of officers.Formed in October of 2004, the Board of Directors consists of two officers from each of the four affiliate chapters that make up the Western...
Apr 11 2005 // Two months before the study is expected to be done, the property casualty insurance industry is getting nervous about a study on terrorism insurance being conducted by the Treasury Department, a study some in Congress are...
Apr 4 2005 // The Washington Department of Labor and Industries has put Skanska USA Building Inc. on notice that it will lose its certificate to self-insure if it doesn’t improve the way it manages workers’ compensation...
Mar 24 2005 // The Washington Department of Labor and Industries has fined NW Forest Fibre Products of Concrete $76,960 for workplace safety violations that contributed to the death last September of one of its employees.Keith Cain, 28,...
Mar 23 2005 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler announced March 22 that he is closing the voluntary Market Assistance Program for medical malpractice insurance due to a lack of business. Kreidler points out that the...
Mar 21 2005 // If a Washington measure becomes law, responsible pet owners who take care of their animals will face higher insurance costs to subsidize rates for others with dogs more likely to bite, according to the American Insurance...
Mar 21 2005 // The Center for Justice & Democracy, a national consumer organization that monitors insurance industry practices, applauded the Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner for ordering the state’s...
Mar 18 2005 // The only problem Dee Robison has with her favorite Doberman pinscher, Darby, is that the 90-pound pooch gets a little jealous when she turns her attention toward the television.“He’ll just stand there with his...
Mar 8 2005 // Seattle-based Physicians Insurance A Mutual Company, an insurer that provides coverage to physicians and other health care providers, acknowledged the regulatory actions taken by Washington’s Office of the Insurance...
Mar 8 2005 // If a Washington measure becomes law, responsible pet owners who take care of their animals will face higher insurance costs to subsidize rates for others with dogs more likely to bite, according to the American Insurance...
Mar 4 2005 // The Center for Justice & Democracy, a national consumer organization that monitors insurance industry practices, applauded the Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner for ordering the state’s...
Mar 3 2005 // The Washington Department of Labor and Industries has put Skanska USA Building Inc. on notice that it will lose its certificate to self-insure if it doesn’t improve the way it manages workers’ compensation...
Mar 1 2005 // Tort reform proponents in Washington were reportedly not surprised that a report issued Tuesday by the Office of the Insurance Commissioner (OIC) showed continued escalation in both the frequency and the cost of medical...
Feb 28 2005 // Brimingham,Alabanama-based medcial malpractice insurer ProAssurance Corporation (NYSE: PRA) and NCRIC Group, Inc., our of Washington, D.C., (NASDAQ: NCRI) announced an agreement to merge NCRIC into ProAssurance in a $69.6...
Feb 21 2005 // Industry Gets Victory on Class Action But Reason to Worry Over TRIAEliot who? The name Eliot Spitzer was never spoken during a recent gathering of insurance brokers and federal lawmakers in Washington, D.C. At the annual...