All the headlines from our Washington Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Sep 14 2018 // A Washington Tacoma towing company is being accused of illegally selling an impounded car belonging to a serviceman deployed on the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier.The News Tribune reported the state Attorney...
Sep 11 2018 // The city of Lakewood, Wash., its police chief and two officers have agreed to pay $13 million to the family of an unarmed black man who was killed four years ago as he clutched his 4-year-old son following a four-hour...
Sep 10 2018 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler issued fines in July totaling $115,050 against insurance companies, agents and brokers for reported violations of state insurance regulations.The alleged violators and their...
Sep 7 2018 // Major hotel chains including Marriott International Inc and Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. said on Thursday they are arming U.S. employees with panic buttons to fight sexual harassment and crime, an about-face for an...
Sep 3 2018 // A new lawsuit says the Boeing aircraft company is poisoning the Duwamish River by pumping out pollution that is far and away above the legal limit.Environmental groups Puget Soundkeeper and Waste Action Project say the...
Aug 29 2018 // The pastor of a Baltimore, Md., church has pled guilty to setting fire to an apartment he rented in Southeast Washington in a plan to collect insurance money.Jamel Carelock, the pastor of Lead Church, pled guilty in the...
Aug 27 2018 // A city in eastern Washington state has agreed to a settlement with a power company after a large fire started last year during a gun-shooting training exercise for local police officers.The Yakima Herald-Republic reports...
Aug 22 2018 // A new lawsuit says the Boeing aircraft company is poisoning the Duwamish River by pumping out pollution that is far and away above the legal limit.KOMO-TV reported environmental groups Puget Soundkeeper and Waste Action...
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...