All the headlines from our Washington Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 14 2018 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has named Megan Davidson vice president within the company’s real estate group. Davidson will be based in Alliant’s Seattle, Wash. office, and will provide insurance and risk...
Dec 3 2018 // Many delegates from the world’s 20 largest economies arrived at a summit in Argentina this week determined to clinch an agreement to reform the global trade system, pushed to a breaking point by tensions between the...
Nov 28 2018 // Floodwaters rose about 15 inches (40 centimeters) into Danielle Rees’ home in September when Hurricane Florence drenched this tidewater city on the Pamlico River and overwhelmed a local creek and marshland. The first...
Nov 27 2018 // Leavitt Group has made Valley Insurance Agency part of Leavitt Group Northwest.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Valley Insurance Agency’s Robert Bush, Sheila Siggins and Ginger Patton will remain with the merged...
Nov 21 2018 // A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has shaken an area beneath Olympic National Park south of Port Angeles, the U.S. Geological Survey has confirmed.The USGS reported the earthquake hit just after 3 a.m. Monday. There were no...
Nov 5 2018 // An eastern Washington man found not guilty of three counts of involuntary manslaughter in a criminal trial following a boating crash on Lake Coeur d’Alene in northern Idaho has been ordered to pay $600,000 in a civil...
Oct 30 2018 // Oak Harbor, Wash.-based Cascade Insurance Agency merged operations with Leavitt Group Northwest.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Shelli Trumbull will join Sue Blouin and Bonnie Wallin in Leavitt Group’s Oak...
Oct 30 2018 // King County Metro Transit in Washington has apologized and made a multimillion-dollar payment to the family of an Amazon employee who was killed last year by a turning bus.The Seattle Times reports 43-year-old John Ahn had...
Oct 24 2018 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Issaquah, Wash.-based Richter International Consulting LLC.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founder Dave Richter and his associates will continue to operate from their...
Oct 23 2018 // A Grant County, Wash. vegetable-packing house will pay $525,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging a supervisor groped, propositioned and retaliated against female workers.The Seattle Times reports State Attorney General Bob...
Oct 22 2018 // Wheelchair users attending Seattle Mariners baseball games at Safeco Field get a “second-class” experience, a nonprofit disability-rights law firm says, and has filed a discrimination lawsuit.The Seattle Times...
Oct 19 2018 // Washington state has agreed to pay a $28 million settlement to woman who was left quadriplegic in wreck on Interstate 5 in DuPont.The News Tribune reported 20-year-old Skylar Seward filed a lawsuit against the state...
Oct 15 2018 // Two more Washington State Patrol troopers plan to sue the state over carbon monoxide poisoning, bringing the total number of troopers intending to sue to seven.KOIN-TV reported Trooper Chad Prentice of Vancouver and...
Oct 12 2018 // Washington’s Public Lands Commissioner wants lawmakers to increase the amount of money that the state spends to fight wildfires and prevent future blazes.Hilary Franz, who oversees the Department of Natural...
Oct 8 2018 // A woman who says she was harassed and intimidated by a police officer in the southwest Washington city of Woodland has settled a lawsuit against him for $275,000.The Daily News in Longview reported that the city’s...
Oct 4 2018 // The U.S. government on Wednesday warned that a hacking group widely known as cloudhopper, which Western cybersecurity firms have linked to the Chinese government, has launched attacks on technology service providers in a...
Oct 1 2018 // The rapper Nelly has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed in Washington by a woman who alleges that he raped her on his tour bus then defamed her when he claimed she made up the accusation.The Seattle Times reported settlement...
Oct 1 2018 // The price of workers’ compensation insurance in Washington could drop significantly in 2019.The Washington Department of Labor & Industries in late September proposed a 5 percent decrease in the average premium...
Sep 27 2018 // Stone Creek Insurance Agency is expanding its Spokane, Wash. presence with the addition of four new employees.San Francisco Bay Area-based Stone Creek launched its Spokane office in February. Charles Hook has been named...
Sep 20 2018 // The price of workers’ compensation insurance in Washington could drop significantly in 2019.The Washington Department of Labor & Industries this week proposed a 5 percent decrease in the average premium employers...