All the headlines from our Washington Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 29 2021 // A federal jury has awarded two men who live south of Tacoma, Wash., a total of $3.26 million for injuries suffered when they were shot by one of the town of Roy’s two police officers during a drunken joy ride in a...
Sep 29 2021 // An Edmonds, Washington woman has pleaded guilty to wire fraud related to the 2018 fire at her business that prosecutors said she set in order to collect insurance money.Connie Bigelow, 53, admitted in the plea agreement...
Sep 23 2021 // A Seattle, Wash. woman accused of forging signatures and stealing money by billing the state for appointments, some related to workers’ compensation services, that never happened pleaded guilty Wednesday.Carla C....
Sep 23 2021 // A man who accused Seattle police officers of physical abuse after they entered his home two years ago during a welfare check has reached a $250,000 settlement with the city.Under the settlement, the city didn’t admit...
Sep 21 2021 // The Washington Department of Labor & Industries is proposing an increase in the average price employers and workers pay for workers’ compensation insurance next year.If the proposal is adopted, it would be the...
Sep 21 2021 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler this month fined Aetna Life Insurance Co. $25,000 for discriminating against policyholders who sought gender-affirming medical treatment.In June 2019, a Washington consumer...
Sep 20 2021 // The family of Manuel Ellis, a Black man who died while being restrained by Tacoma police officers who have since been charged criminally, has filed a federal lawsuit over his death.Attorneys for Ellis’ sister, Monet...
Sep 17 2021 // The Clark County Council in Washington has agreed to pay Don Benton and two other former county employees $1.4 million less than four months after a jury awarded the trio $693,998 in a wrongful termination lawsuit.The...
Sep 15 2021 // Washington state troopers, prison correctional officers, ferry workers and other public sector employees have filed a lawsuit to try to overturn Gov. Jay Inslee’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.The Northwest News Network...
Sep 13 2021 // The state of Washington has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by 10 people who said they were sexually abused at a juvenile rehabilitation facility when they were teenagers.One of the plaintiffs lives in Pierce County,...
Sep 9 2021 // Deerfield, Ill.-based Alera Group Inc. signed a definitive agreement to merge with Propel Insurance Agency headquartered in Tacoma, Wash.Propel’s property/casualty capabilities are expected to bolster Alera...
Sep 2 2021 // Alliant Insurance Services acquired Vancouver, Wash.-based Biggs Insurance Services.Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Biggs and its team of nearly 60 insurance professionals will join Alliant and will continue...
Sep 1 2021 // Attorneys say they have reached a $6 million settlement over the sexual abuse of a child by his Seattle, Wash.-area bowling instructor.The boy was abused from 2012 to 2017, beginning when he was 12. The coach, Ty...
Aug 31 2021 // Insurance companies have settled another sexual abuse lawsuit brought against Kiwanis International, this time for $9 million in a case involving seven men who were sexually abused at a Centralia, Washington, group home...
Aug 31 2021 // The families of children who were injured on the Tilt-A-Whirl at the Kitsap County Fair in Washington in 2018 are suing the owner of the amusement company that operated the ride at the fair’s carnival and its...
Aug 24 2021 // A Thurston County, Wash., man who reportedly tried to pass off a barroom brawl injury as a workplace accident has pleaded guilty to stealing state workers’ compensation insurance benefits.Chuck Wayne Riccio, 40, of...
Aug 17 2021 // Clark County, Washington, has agreed to pay $72,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by a man who said an argument with a deputy led to deputies harassing and arresting him over several months.Steven Klug, a...
Aug 16 2021 // Online food delivery platform Postmates has agreed to pay almost $1 million to settle allegations it violated the city’s paid sick leave policies for gig workers, Seattle’s Office of Labor Standards said.The...
Aug 16 2021 // The state of Washington reached a settlement with Gebbers Farms Operations LP to spend more than $2 million improving housing, quality of life, safety and access to health care for farm employees and their families.The...
Aug 13 2021 // The wheat harvest on Marci Green’s farm doesn’t usually begin until late August, but a severe drought stunted this year’s crop and her crews finished harvesting last week because she didn’t want...