All the headlines from our Washington Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 27 2020 // The Port of Kalama in Washington has filed a claim against the owners and operators of a container ship it believes is responsible for damaging the marina and boats when it passed by at an excessive speed earlier this...
Apr 27 2020 // A former sheriff’s department security officer in Washington state entered negotiations with county officials over a $10 million wrongful termination claim.Eric Salverda worked in the Yakima County Sheriff’s...
Apr 23 2020 // A handful of mostly southern U.S. states will begin loosening economic restrictions this week in the midst of a still virulent pandemic, providing a live-fire test of whether America’s communities can start to reopen...
Apr 20 2020 // Advocates for farm workers in Washington state have filed a lawsuit against the state seeking safer working conditions as the harvest season begins amid a coronavirus pandemic.Thousands of workers are already pruning...
Apr 17 2020 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler polled Washington state insurers to get a thorough picture of business interruption insurance and found that only two insurers offer coverage for a pandemic event through...
Apr 16 2020 // Washington state is suing Facebook – again – for selling political ads without disclosing all necessary information about who’s behind them.Attorney General Bob Ferguson first sued Facebook over the issue in...
Apr 13 2020 // The daughter of a woman who died of a suspected coronavirus case at a Seattle-area nursing home connected to dozens of COVID-19 deaths is suing the company that owns the Life Care Center of Kirkland.The Life Care Center...
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...