All the headlines from our Washington Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 8 2020 // A statistical model cited by the White House generated a slightly less grim figure Monday for a first wave of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. – a projection designed to help officials plan for the...
Apr 7 2020 // Experts and health officials who are trying to plan a response to the coronavirus outbreak are missing a critical piece of information — the number of health care workers who have tested positive for the...
Apr 3 2020 // A Bellevue, Washington, dentist was accused of using lighter fluid and accelerant to set fires in his exam and X-ray rooms after being evicted from his office for failing to pay rent, King County prosecutors said.Mohammad...
Apr 1 2020 // Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has signed the first U.S. state law that sharply curbs law enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology, while civil rights activists said the measure did not go far enough to protect...
Mar 27 2020 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler is asking insurers doing business in the state to immediately extend automobile insurance coverage for personal delivery drivers to aid people temporarily assigned this duty...
Mar 23 2020 // The outbreak of coronavirus has already resulted in some workers’ compensation claims and more are expected. But whether those claims are going to succeed depends on the individual circumstances and the state where...
Mar 17 2020 // The outbreak of coronavirus has already resulted in some workers’ compensation claims and more are expected. But whether those claims are going to succeed depends on the individual circumstances and the state where...
Mar 16 2020 // The Target Market Program Administrators Association has become the latest insurance organization to cancel a meeting. TMPAA Executive Director Ray Scotto announced that the 2020 TMPAA Mid-Year Meeting planned for Tampa on...
Mar 14 2020 // For the first time in the Risk and Insurance Management Society’s 70-year history, it is not going to have its annual conference. The RIMS 2020 Annual Conference & Exhibition scheduled for May 6 in Denver has...
Mar 13 2020 // The state of Washington has made the decision to provide workers’ compensation benefits to healthcare workers and first responders who are quarantined after being exposed to COVID-19 while on the job.Gov. Jay Inslee...
Mar 13 2020 // Warren Buffett, CEO, said there will be a Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting as usual on May 2 but it will be unusual in that it will not be attended by thousands of shareholders, employees and media representatives as in...
Mar 13 2020 // Gov. Ron DeSantis placed limits Wednesday on who can can visit Florida’s nursing homes and other assisted living facilities, bidding to protect the state’s sizeable and vulnerable elderly population from the...
Mar 12 2020 // The roster of insurance-related conferences being canceled, postponed or moved to virtual due to the coronavirus threat keeps changing. Here is an updated list:March Property Liability Research Bureau (PLRB) called off its...
Mar 12 2020 // At least 10 long-term care facilities in the Seattle area have reported COVID-19 cases, with deaths at three of them _ a worrying development as health officials have cautioned that the elderly and those with underlying...
Mar 10 2020 // The number of industry-related conferences being cancelled, postponed or moved to virtual platforms in response to the coronavirus threat is growing. The Wholesale and Specialty Insurance Association (WSIA) has joined the...
Mar 6 2020 // Haynes and Boone LLP has hired Stephen Raptis as a partner in the Washington, D.C., office, bolstering the national expansion of the firm’s Insurance Recovery Practice Group.Over his 25-year career, Raptis has...
Mar 6 2020 // Crawford & Co. has named Lizzy Adkins as vertical market leader in litigation management. Adkins will be responsible for expanding Crawford’s casualty book focusing on litigation management for the U.S. She will...
Mar 3 2020 // As the coronavirus and its COVID-19 disease spread, Insurance professionals going to industry conferences over the next few weeks and months could find themselves having their temperature taken at the door and being told...
Mar 2 2020 // The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is seeking a preliminary injunction in federal court in an attempt to stop the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) from conducting enforcement proceedings...
Feb 18 2020 // The Washington Senate has passed a data privacy measure that would give consumers the right to manage how information held by private companies is used. The measure, called the Washington Privacy Act, passed on a...