All the headlines from our Washington Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 13 2003 // A recent study by the Washington state Office of the Insurance Commissioner (OIC) about insurer use of credit history adds some interesting new pro-competitive angles to the public policy debate, according to American...
Feb 12 2003 // Inspectors from the Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) will be out in force in Pierce, Jefferson, Kitsap and Clallam counties this month, making sure residential wood framers are working safely and are...
Feb 4 2003 // Nearly 300 physicians from across Washington state met in Olympia to urge legislators to pass medical liability reform recently.Washington physicians, reeling from rapidly increasing medical malpractice premiums, are...
Feb 4 2003 // Eric W. Neely has been named president of Mt Washington Assurance Corporation, a member of the Plymouth Rock Companies, headquartered in Concord, NH. The company sells auto and homeowner insurance in New Hampshire through...
Jan 28 2003 // American Insurance Association (AIA) vice president and assistant general counsel David Snyder responded to the release of effect of credit scoring on auto insurance underwriting and pricing, a study by the Washington...
Jan 27 2003 // Washington’s job sites were safer in 2001, continuing a trend that began nearly a decade ago, according to survey results released by the Department of Labor and Industries.The survey showed that 7.6 out of every 100...
Jan 20 2003 // Members of the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) are set to converge on the nation’s capital on Thursday, April 3, for their annual Federal Legislative Summit.The 2003 PIA Federal...
Jan 3 2003 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America’s (IIABA’s) 27th Annual National Legislative Conference will be held April 2-4 at The Capital Hilton in downtown Washington, D.C.The event will bring...
Dec 3 2002 // Robert Malooly, a 30-year veteran of the insurance industry, has been selected to run Washington State’s industrial insurance system. Malooly, 54, who rose from claims adjudicator to chairman and CEO of the...
Nov 28 2002 // The Washington Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) has adopted a 29 percent rate increase for 2003. It is the agency’s first general rate increase in eight years.On Jan. 1, the average rate will rise from...
Nov 5 2002 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said that it lowered its counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Washington Casualty Co. to single-‘Bpi’ from triple-‘Bpi’ because of the...
Oct 15 2002 // The Washington Department of Labor and Industries and Tacoma-based Labor Ready have settled their dispute over the amount of money the temporary help firm owed the state in workers’ compensation premiums dating back...
Oct 3 2002 // The Washington Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) has scheduled seven public hearings to take testimony on a proposed 40.5 percent increase in workers’ compensation premiums in 2003.The hearings give...
Sep 12 2002 // The Washington Department of Labor and Industries has proposed increasing industrial insurance premiums by 40.5 percent in 2003. It is the agency’s first general rate increase in eight years.If adopted, the proposal...
Aug 19 2002 // A Grays Harbor County, Wash. man has pled guilty to a felony charge of first- degree theft and for fraudulently receiving workers’ compensation benefits. Sherwin D. Phillips, 31, was allegedly receiving...
Aug 15 2002 // Washington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has begun the process of adopting a regulation to implement the new law restricting insurers’ use of credit-based insurance scores. He hopes to adopt a final rule...
Jun 21 2002 // Workers currently receiving Washington workers’ compensation time-loss or pension benefits will receive less than a 1 percent cost-of-living increase on July 1, 2002.The new maximum monthly benefit will be $3,722.90...
Jun 17 2002 // Insurance Skills Center recently filed a new seminar on “Terrorism and Insurance” with the Departments of Insurance in Calif., Nevada, Oregon, and Washington for 4 CE credits. The class will look at issues...
May 27 2002 // The Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) is returning more than $78 million in workers’ compensation premiums to Washington employers and associations enrolled in retrospective rating plans.29 professional...
Apr 24 2002 // Two very different bills restricting insurers’ use of credit-based insurance scores are pending in Alaska House and Senate committees with no clear indication as to which is more likely to move.National Association...