All the headlines from our Washington Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 24 2019 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has hit another big corporation’s captive insurer with a fine.Kreidler has been going after captives for owed taxes by fining them since last year, when he issued large...
Sep 20 2019 // The Trump administration’s decision to stop California from setting its own emission standards for cars and trucks would undermine the state’s ability to convince the world’s largest automakers that they...
Sep 18 2019 // The price of workers’ compensation insurance in Washington would drop for the third year in a row under a proposal by the Washington Department of Labor & Industries.The L&I on Wednesday proposed a 0.8%...
Sep 17 2019 // Hub International Limited , a global insurance brokerage and financial services firm, has acquired the assets of Wash Financial L.L.C., doing business as Washington Financial Group (WFG). Terms of the transaction were not...
Sep 16 2019 // A jury has awarded three plaintiffs injured in a 2017 Amtrak derailment outside DuPont, Wash. a total of $16.75 million in damages, Luvera Law Firm said in a statement.The plaintiffs, Dale Skyllingstad, Blaine Wilmotte and...
Sep 3 2019 // A Bellingham, Wash.-based property management company has been cited by the Washington Department of Labor & Industries for multiple serious safety and health violations, most of which involve improper handling of...
Aug 30 2019 // There’s a new surprise member of the world’s safest cities club. Washington, D.C. has entered the top 10 in the Safe Cities index for the first time, while Hong Kong is a noticeable no-show after plummeting...
Aug 29 2019 // CNA has named Tanya Decman vice president and branch manager for the Seattle, Wash., and Portland, Ore., branches. Decman was previously assistant vice president of sales and distribution in the West. She was a marketing...
Aug 29 2019 // Five years after Washington launched its pioneering legal marijuana market, officials are proposing an overhaul of the state’s industry rules, with plans for boosting minority ownership of pot businesses, paving the...
Aug 27 2019 // Capital Insurance Group has named Scott Elliott agency development manager for Central and Eastern Washington. He is based out of the Spokane, Wash., office. Elliott is responsible for strengthening agency relationships in...
Aug 27 2019 // Ames & Gough, an insurance broker and risk management consultant specializing in serving design professionals, law firms, associations/nonprofits and other professional service organizations, has appointed Jessie...
Aug 23 2019 // U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has named 45 Mississippi counties primary natural disaster areas because of freezing, flooding, flash flooding and excessive rain.Producers who had losses from those causes since...
Aug 22 2019 // Which helps society more? Alcohol or cannabis.That sounds like a funny question, but it may be an important one with more local governments embracing the opportunity to bring in tax revenue from cannabis sales. A new...
Aug 21 2019 // The U.S. Geological Survey is greatly increasing funding for the region’s seismic network, putting it on track to send public alerts of impending earthquake shaking within the next two years.The Seattle Times reports...
Aug 20 2019 // Blank Rome LLP has announced that Partner Helen K. Michael has joined the firm’s Insurance Recovery group based in its Washington, D.C., office.Michael joins from Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, where she...
Aug 20 2019 // West Bend Mutual Insurance Co. in West Bend, Wisconsin, has promoted five company executives.Heather Dunn is now senior vice president, as well as chief financial officer, a position she’s held since 2017. Dunn...
Aug 16 2019 // For decades, Placido Domingo, one of the most celebrated and powerful men in opera, has tried to pressure women into sexual relationships by dangling jobs and then sometimes punishing the women professionally when they...
Aug 13 2019 // Lyft Inc.’s image as the “woke” ride-hailing company faces a new challenge from a rash of lawsuits filed by women who claim they were sexually assaulted by drivers summoned to take them home after...
Aug 12 2019 // Six Washington State Patrol troopers have filed a class-action lawsuit against Ford Motor Company saying their patrol vehicles gave them carbon monoxide poisoning.KOIN reported the lawsuit, filed last week in Clark County...
Aug 6 2019 // Nestled in the foothills of Washington’s Cascade Mountains, the bustling Seattle suburb of Issaquah seems an unlikely candidate for anxiety over wildfires.The region, famous for its rainfall, has long escaped major...