All the headlines from our Washington Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 21 2018 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has named AnnaLisa Gellermann chief deputy commissioner. She begins Aug. 27. Gellerman is currently the deputy commissioner for the policy and legislative affairs division....
Aug 20 2018 // Republican Rep. Matt Manweller is suing Central Washington University and the investigator it hired to look into allegations of inappropriate conduct. Manweller, a political professor at the college since 2003, was fired...
Aug 17 2018 // A woman has filed a lawsuit against Bellevue College claiming the school, and by extension Washington state, fostered a hostile work environment by failing to protect her from a former dean.SeattlePI.com reported the...
Aug 10 2018 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers has opened a retirement services location in Seattle, Wash., to be overseen by Blake Thibault, managing director of Heffernan’s financial services division.Also located in the office are...
Aug 9 2018 // A Seattle, Wash. company that manufactures electronics mounting systems and other products is facing more than $250,000 in fines for multiple serious and willful worker safety and health violations.The state’s...
Aug 9 2018 // Lafayette, Calif- based Stone Creek has named Joe Bornstein a commercial producer in its Spokane, Wash. office. Bornstein’s emphasis will be on small business on the West Coast. Bornstein comes to Stone Creek by from...
Jul 26 2018 // Two Washington state women have been sentenced after pleading guilty to committing insurance fraud, the state insurance department announced.The sentencing is the result of an investigation conducted by the Criminal...
Jul 26 2018 // In what the EU chief called a “major concession,” U.S. President Donald Trump agreed on Wednesday to refrain from imposing car tariffs while the two sides launch negotiations to cut other trade barriers, easing...
Jul 24 2018 // A second group of relatives of people killed in the deadly Oso landslide has reached an $11.5 million settlement with Washington state and a timber company that logged an area above the site of the collapse.The Daily...
Jul 23 2018 // A federal jury has awarded a Federal Way, Wash. man $640,000 after finding a police officer used excessive force when arresting him at an accident scene in 2014.The Seattle Times reported that the jury gave Josiah Hunter...
Jul 17 2018 // An Edmonds, Wash.-based asbestos removal contractor has been cited by the Washington Department of Labor & Industries for multiple willful safety violations for improper handling of asbestos.Along with the citations,...
Jul 16 2018 // In forming a new task force to protect consumers from fraud, the Trump administration made clear that one of the greatest threats to the public is just emerging: red-hot markets for crypto coins.The inclusion of virtual...
Jul 13 2018 // PEMCO Insurance has named Diane Geurts a communication manager for the company’s marketing department.Geurts has spent 20 years working in marketing and communications roles. Geurts will support PEMCO’s...
Jul 11 2018 // Stone Creek Insurance Agency has named Rochelle Lesser as junior account manager in the downtown Spokane, Wash. office. Lesser will help grow the Spokane office. She comes to Stone Creek with prior experience at both...
Jul 11 2018 // The passenger rail cars on an Amtrak train that derailed near Seattle, Wash. last December, killing three people, were allowed by federal regulators to stay in service even though they didn’t meet current...
Jul 9 2018 // Skagit County officials in northwestern Washington have a new resource to help plan for potential big waves caused by large earthquakes along the West Coast.Skagit County Department of Emergency Management Director Doug...
Jul 6 2018 // The widow of a Washington state dockworker killed when a mooring line snapped on a cargo ship has filed a $15 million wrongful death lawsuit against the ship’s owner and operators.Byron Jacobs, of Longview, was...
Jul 2 2018 // The University of Washington will pay $122,500 to settle a lawsuit filed after the college billed a Republican club security fees for a rally. The UW College Republicans sued, saying the bill for $17,000 to cover security...
Jun 27 2018 // The family of the Washington State University football player who died of suicide in January said the 21-year-old quarterback had extensive brain damage that’s been linked to concussions from playing the sport.Tyler...
Jun 26 2018 // A Washington county agreed to pay $350,000 to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by two women who accused a male supervisor at the human services department of unwanted hugging, kissing and comments.The Daily...