All the headlines from our Washington Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 19 2021 // A Washington bill to ban insurers from using consumers’ credit scores to determine auto and homeowner insurance premiums was gutted by an insurance industry amendment in the Senate Business, Financial Services &...
Feb 18 2021 // The earthquake early warning system known as ShakeAlert will be capable of delivering alerts directly to wireless devices in Oregon on March 11 and to Washington state in May, completing the West Coast rollout, the U.S....
Feb 16 2021 // USI Insurance Services has acquired Spokane, Wash.-based Inland Insurance Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Inland Insurance is an independent risk management and employee benefits agency serving businesses and...
Feb 10 2021 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached a settlement with Emerald Kalama Chemical after inspectors say they found hazardous waste storage and handling violations it its Kalama, Wash., facility.The chemical...
Feb 4 2021 // Two farm groups are suing the state of Washington for failing to revise emergency regulations that seek to protect migrant farmworkers from the COVID-19 virus.The groups filed the lawsuit this week in Yakima County...
Feb 3 2021 // The California-based multi-level marketing business LuLaRoe is paying $4.75 million to settle allegations from the Washington state Attorney General’s Office that it operated as a pyramid scheme.LuLaRoe sells...
Feb 3 2021 // Google will pay $2.6 million to more than 5,500 employees and past job applicants to resolve allegations that the internet giant discriminated against female engineers and Asians in California and Washington state.The...
Feb 2 2021 // CRC Group, a national wholesale distributor of specialty insurance products, has acquired the assets of Washington D.C.-based Federal Employee Defense Services (FEDS), a niche managing general underwriter specializing in...
Jan 27 2021 // A Yakima, Wash., fruit grower and processor has been fined more than $150,000 by the Washington Department of Labor & Industries for violating COVID-19 workplace requirements designed to help keep workers safe on the...
Jan 26 2021 // Tacoma, Wash.-based Propel Insurance has named Angelo Fusaro chief financial officer. Fusaro succeeds Pete Hendrick, who has announced his retirement after serving as CFO since 2004. Fusaro has more than 20 years of...
Jan 14 2021 // CRC Group has promoted Stewart Brown to regional director of the company’s transportation binding division for a newly created region that includes Texas and California. Brown is based in CRC’s Seattle, Wash.,...
Jan 13 2021 // A former Washington state police chief who was fired last year is expected to collect a $125,000 settlement.Michael Campos was fired in May as Wapato police chief with cause after an internal investigation found evidence...
Jan 13 2021 // The Pacific Northwest is bracing for flooding and landslides, while the mountains will see heavy snow and possible avalanches on Wednesday as an atmospheric river collides with Washington and Oregon.The Snoqualmie River...
Jan 12 2021 // Editor’s note: This article has been updated to remove life insurance from the list of lines of insurance that the bill covered. That language was removed from earlier versions of the bill, and no longer...
Jan 7 2021 // An appellate court has ordered lawyers for a Washington state county and its deputy sheriff to pay more than $56,000 in attorney fees and costs for filing frivolous appeals in a federal civil-rights case filed by the...
Dec 30 2020 // Ambulance company American Medical Response will settle a discrimination lawsuit after it refused to provide a pregnant Spokane, Washington employee a temporary reprieve from heavy-duty work, regulators announced...
Dec 28 2020 // An investigation into the COVID-19 deaths of two workers at a Central Washington farm has reportedly found dozens of safety and health violations.As a result, the Washington state Department of Labor & Industries has...
Dec 21 2020 // The U.S. Department of Justice says it and Bartell Drugs have resolved allegations that the pharmacy chain filled invalid prescriptions between July 2016 and August 2020 in violation of the Controlled Substances Act.U.S....
Dec 14 2020 // The state has levied a large fine against a Graham gym that is defying Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s orders meant to slow the spread of the virus.Graham Fitness was accused of eight violations totaling $77,112 by the...
Dec 11 2020 // A school district in Washington state has agreed to a $2 million settlement after a woman sued over sexual abuse by a band teacher 30 years ago – a trauma so profound she said it caused her to stop teaching music to...