All the headlines from our Washington Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 7 2021 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler announced today that more than 50 insurance companies met the May 6 deadline to file rating plans that comply with his emergency rule to temporarily prohibit the use of...
May 7 2021 // The son of a man who died while in Bellingham police custody has filed a precursor to a lawsuit with the city over his father’s death.Documents obtained by The Bellingham Herald say Joshua Eldard filed a claim in...
May 5 2021 // Insurance companies are paying $6 million to settle a lawsuit brought against Kiwanis International and local Kiwanis clubs by seven men who were sexually abused at a Centralia group home for boys in Washington decades...
May 5 2021 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired the assets of Bellevue, Wash.-based Conover Insurance Services LLC and certain of its affiliates. Brad Green, CEO of Conover, Connie Morrow, COO, Kerri Record, senior vice president, and...
May 4 2021 // Washington residents will have new tool to help keep them safe when an earthquake strikes on Tuesday when the ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning System goes live.Once launched, ShakeAlert will be able to send residents an...
May 3 2021 // The wife of a Spokane County, Wash., man killed by his neighbor is suing Spokane County, alleging a sheriff’s deputy’s negligence allowed the killing to happen.The lawsuit filed in March in Spokane County...
Apr 30 2021 // InterWest Insurance Services has named Brad Espinosa senior director in its surety division.He will be based in Sacramento, Calif., and report to Keith Schuler, president and CEO of InterWest Insurance Services. He has...
Apr 28 2021 // The American Property Casualty Insurance Association said it insurers will following the law where it concerns Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler’s emergency regulation banning the use of credit-based...
Apr 28 2021 // A Seattle, Wash., punk rock bar is suing the city’s new NHL hockey team for $3.5 million, saying the Kraken’s choice of a name and plans to open a restaurant are harming the Kraken Bar & Lounge, which...
Apr 27 2021 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler is reminding insurance companies of the May 6 deadline to file rating plans that comply with his emergency rule to temporarily prohibit the use of consumers’ credit...
Apr 26 2021 // Insurer groups expressed disappointment over a judge’s ruling denying an industry request to halt an emergency rule that temporarily bans the use of insurance credit scoring in Washington.The Independent Insurance...
Apr 23 2021 // A Thurston County Superior Court judge on Friday denied an insurance industry request to halt an emergency rule that temporarily bans the use of insurance credit scoring in Washington.The ruling that rejected a request for...
Apr 22 2021 // A case pitting several insurer groups against Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler is set to be heard on Friday morning.The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of Washington, the Professional Insurance...
Apr 14 2021 // A judge has dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit brought against Pierce County, Wash., by the family of sheriff’s deputy Daniel McCartney, who was fatally shot while responding to a call.McCartney, 34, was shot Jan. 7,...
Apr 12 2021 // A jury has awarded four former marching band students at the University of Washington more than $1.4 million after they were injured in a bus crash on their way to a football competition with rival Washington State...
Apr 9 2021 // A Seattle nursing home’s insurer has agreed to pay $8 million to settle a lawsuit brought on behalf of a disabled woman who was sexually assaulted while in the facility’s care.Foss Home and Village agreed to...
Apr 7 2021 // The American Property Casualty Insurance Association is suing to halt emergency regulations recently filed by Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler to ban the use of credit-based insurance scores in the rating...
Mar 30 2021 // A suburban Seattle, Wash., school district this week agreed to pay $4.25 million to settle a lawsuit that accuses a former middle school teacher of sexually assaulting his student for nearly a decade.According to the...
Mar 26 2021 // A woman has accused her former teacher of sexual abuse in a lawsuit filed against the Marysville School District.The lawsuit accuses longtime art teacher Kurt Hollstein of sexually abusing her around 1985, when the woman...
Mar 24 2021 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler is urging the insurance industry in his state to work with Native Americans on adopting policies of consent on environmental projects that affect Tribal nations.According to...