All the headlines from our Washington Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 20 2018 // PEMCO Insurance has named Noel Farmer to the company’s infrastructure and operations team, where he’ll lead and manage PEMCO’s internal technical support group.PEMCO has also named Rebecca Jameson a...
Jun 20 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 15 2018 // Seattle, Wash.-based PEMCO Insurance has named Venkata Karumuri a systems manager for the carrier’s digital business center.PEMCO also named Abeer Abu-Emarah manager of its underwriting department. Karumuri will lead...
Jun 13 2018 // President Donald Trump said last Friday that he was inclined to support a bipartisan effort in Congress to ease the U.S. ban on marijuana, a proposal that would dramatically reshape the nation’s legal landscape for...
Jun 5 2018 // Hub International Limited, a global insurance brokerage, has acquired the shares of Flather & Perkins Inc. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.Headquartered in Washington, D.C., and founded in 1917, Flather...
Jun 4 2018 // Washington’s insurance commissioner issued a cease and desist order against Microsoft Corp. to stop using its Arizona-domiciled captive, Cypress Insurance Co.Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler’s cease and...
May 30 2018 // Flow Insurance Services has named Adam Matheny a program administrator in its Spokane, Wash. location. Matheny has been in the insurance industry since 2011, having started with Safeco Insurance. In 2012, he opened an...
May 25 2018 // National Wine Day is a thing. And it’s today.Oenophiles probably know that May 25 is Wine Day, but the annual celebration of fermented grapes might be news to those who only like, but don’t necessarily love,...
May 21 2018 // Washington’s insurance commissioner issued a cease and desist order against Microsoft Corp. to stop using its Arizona-domiciled captive, Cypress Insurance Co.Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler’s cease and...
May 11 2018 // A retail store’s ability to authenticate customers by scanning their unique ear or retinal patterns may seem like something out of a sci-fi movie, but this type of identification technology isn’t...
May 8 2018 // Auburn, Wash.-based HBT Insurance has been acquired by Leavitt Group.HBT will affiliate with the group and merge with Leavitt Group Northwest. Terms of the deal weren’t announced.HBT’s Bill Cowart and Bob...
May 7 2018 // Congress is headed for a “major showdown” over the flood insurance program, according to an insurance broker lobbyist who notes that the program expires July 31, right in the middle of hurricane season.That...
May 4 2018 // Former insurance producer Matthew Gingerich, 37, of Centralia, Wash., recently pleaded guilty to first-degree theft in Lewis County Superior Court. Gingerich was accused of misappropriating more than $30,000 in...
May 3 2018 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Bellevue, Wash.-based ClearPoint Financial Inc.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Paul Grutzner, Michael Brown and their associates will continue to operate from their current...
Apr 24 2018 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired the assets of Spokane, Wash.-based BK-JET Group LLC.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Joining Hub Northwest are BK-JET’s founding partners Josh Tyndell, Erin Repp, Tom Blue,...
Apr 23 2018 // A former state supervisor of maintenance workers on McNeil Island is suing Washington state, contending he was wrongfully terminated for trying to correct problems with work performance.Jon Hardy filed a lawsuit against...
Apr 20 2018 // Congress is headed for a “major showdown” over the flood insurance program, according to an insurance broker lobbyist who notes that the program expires July 31, right in the middle of hurricane season.That...
Apr 17 2018 // One passenger was killed when an engine blew out on a Southwest Airlines Co. jetliner carrying 149 people, marking the first fatality on a U.S.-registered airline in more than nine years.The plane, bound for Dallas from...
Apr 17 2018 // The family of a Native American man fatally shot by police who mistook a cellphone for a gun has filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Lakewood, Wash. and police involved in the 2015 shooting. The Seattle Times...
Apr 16 2018 // This past January, adults in California could line up for the first time to legally buy marijuana for personal, nonmedical use. That is when the nation’s largest state joined seven other states and Washington, D.C.,...