All the headlines from our Washington Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 17 2017 // Assurance, a Top 50 U.S. insurance brokerage, has hired Eric Wolfrey to its Washington D.C. team to serve as a risk management consultant.Wolfrey will provide business insurance and risk management solutions to a variety...
Nov 8 2017 // A jury has awarded a female Vancouver, Wash. engineer $251,100 for her lawsuit against the Clark County Community Development Department. The Columbian reports that the jury ruled staff at the department defamed and...
Nov 6 2017 // Local government officials were not negligent in the death of an elderly man who had reported for jury duty and was later found covered with snow outside a Washington state courthouse, jurors ruled.Kay Mita, 84, reported...
Oct 27 2017 // Assurance, a Schaumburg, Ill.-headquartered, independent insurance brokerage, has hired Jack Groseclose to serve as an employee benefits advisor.In his new role, Groseclose will be based in Washington D.C., furthering...
Oct 26 2017 // A U.S. judge on Wednesday refused to block President Donald Trump’s decision to end subsidy payments to health insurers under Obamacare, handing Trump a victory against Democratic attorneys general who have regularly...
Oct 17 2017 // Seattle, Wash.-based PEMCO Insurance has named M.J. Vigil to its executive team as the company’s new vice president of people and brand.PEMCO also named Paul Barry to its executive leadership team as vice president...
Oct 15 2017 // Eighteen U.S. states sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday to stop him from scrapping a key component of Obamacare, subsidies to insurers that help millions of low-income people pay medical expenses,...
Oct 11 2017 // Leavitt Group Northwest has acquired Group Services Northwest.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. This merger will not affect Group Services Northwest client policies and all staff remains with the agency at the same...
Oct 10 2017 // The Trump administration is exploring ways to replace the use of Social Security numbers as the main method of assuring people’s identities in the wake of consumer credit agency Equifax Inc.’s massive data...
Oct 3 2017 // Washington state and the city of Seattle on Thursday joined more than two dozen other government entities across the country suing to hold opioid makers accountable for an addiction crisis that has claimed thousands of...
Sep 28 2017 // Arkansas officials are seeking immunity from being sued for releasing decade-old information about a sexual abuse investigation involving Josh Duggar and four of his sisters.Jill Duggar Dillard, Jessa Duggar Seewald,...
Sep 27 2017 // The Seattle Archdiocese in Washington has paid $1.3 million to settle a sex-abuse lawsuit involving a former member of a religious order who taught in its schools.A man sued the archdiocese in 2015, alleging the church...
Sep 4 2017 // Climate change may pose a serious risk to the nation’s electric grid, according to a new report. The report was prepared by Johns Hopkins University with help from Swiss Re.“Lights out: The risks of climate and...
Aug 17 2017 // As climate change pushes U.S. cities to build protections against stronger storms and more frequent floods, the Rockefeller Foundation is helping cities with a novel kind of financing, one that transfers some of the risk...
Aug 16 2017 // The U.S. Geological Survey has awarded $4.9 million to six universities and a nonprofit to help advance an early warning system for earthquakes along the West Coast.The federal agency says the ShakeAlert system could give...
Aug 11 2017 // Brightway Insurance on Monday will open new agencies in Washington and Colorado. Vays Sarwar will open Brightway, The Sarwar Agency. The agency will be located in Spokane, Wash. Rob Scheibe will open Brightway, The Scheibe...
Aug 2 2017 // The families of five Washington state high school students shot in a high school cafeteria in 2014 have settled a lawsuit against the school district’s insurance company for $18 million.Attorney Lincoln Beauregard,...
Aug 1 2017 // Roughly one-in-three prescription drugs currently dispensed to injured workers in California will be no longer require authorization prior to dispensing under the state’s proposed workers’ compensation...
Aug 1 2017 // Bothell, Wash.-based EagleView Technologies has named Kenneth Cook senior vice president. Cook will lead field services while collaborating with engineering and product teams to develop solutions for claims and...
Aug 1 2017 // A U.S. district judge in Texas has sentenced a former postal employee to 21 months in federal prison for participating in a scheme to defraud the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Worker’s Compensation...