All the headlines from our Washington Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 19 2016 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation Western Division has opened a Washington chapter.This marks the introduction of the division’s third chapter, following the launch of its Colorado and Arizona chapters in...
Dec 19 2016 // The average premium for workers’ compensation coverage in Washington will go up less than 1 percent in 2017, according to the Department of Labor & Industries.L&I announced this month the rate will rise by an...
Dec 13 2016 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler issued fines in November totaling $63,550 against insurance companies, agents and brokers who violated state insurance regulations, including revoking the licenses of one...
Dec 8 2016 // Prosecutors have charged an employee at Washington state’s largest psychiatric hospital with four counts of molesting four female patients, according to court records made public Friday.Christopher Conley, 47, was...
Dec 7 2016 // The company that manufactured a duck boat involved in a deadly crash in Seattle last year has agreed to pay up to $1 million in civil penalties under a consent order, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...
Dec 6 2016 // Six months after a train hauling Bakken crude oil derailed along the Columbia River Gorge, Washington, Oregon and other officials are still tabulating a bill to send to Union Pacific Railroad.Union Pacific said in a...
Dec 1 2016 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation Western Division has opened a Washington chapter.This marks the introduction of the division’s third chapter, following the launch of its Colorado and Arizona Chapters in...
Dec 1 2016 // This story has been updated with comment from Zenefits.Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler ordered Zenefits to cease free distribution of its employee benefits software, saying the tactic violates state...
Nov 30 2016 // The average premium for workers’ compensation coverage in Washington will go up less than 1 percent in 2017, according to the Department of Labor & Industries.LL&I announced today the rate will rise by an...
Nov 28 2016 // The National Weather Service in Seattle is warning that recent heavy rainfall has led to an increased threat of landslides throughout the western part of the state. The alert notes that the recent rainfall has put extra...
Nov 23 2016 // BNSF Railway will study the use of physical covers for coal and petroleum coke trains as part of a tentative agreement reached this week with environmental groups that sued alleging that coal spilled from trains pollutes...
Nov 21 2016 // Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is directing several state agencies to work together to prepare for a coordinated plan in case of a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami. The directive, which was issued earlier this month,...
Nov 17 2016 // Two former U.S. Postal Service employees have been convicted on felony charges related to a workers’ compensation fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas announced.McArthur Baker,...
Nov 9 2016 // Incumbent Mike Kreidler (D) will serve a fifth term as Washington’s insurance commissioner.Kreidler defeated Richard Schrock (R) with 60.13 percent of the vote in his bid for reelection. Schrock got 39.87 percent of...
Nov 7 2016 // A federal judge has rejected the U.S. Department of Energy’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Washington state over worker safety issues at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Rice...
Nov 7 2016 // Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is directing several state agencies to work together to prepare for a coordinated plan in case of a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami. Friday’s directive creates a subcabinet group of the...
Nov 3 2016 // The maker of a popular line of minimalist running shoes doesn’t have to pay damages for naming some of its models after Abebe Bikila, the legendary Ethiopian runner who won the 1960 Olympics marathon barefoot, a...
Nov 2 2016 // A federal judge says Spokane’s lawsuit against the agrochemical giant Monsanto regarding pollution in Washington’s Spokane River can move forward.The city sued Monsanto last year, alleging the company knew for...
Oct 28 2016 // A federal judge in Seattle has found that BNSF Railway could be held liable in a lawsuit claiming that coal spilled from trains pollutes waterways if environmental groups can show at trial that such discharges actually...
Oct 24 2016 // A recreational vehicle salesman in Washington who claimed he couldn’t work because of an on-the-job injury has been ordered to pay back more than $81,000 in state disability benefits.Bobby Ray Johnson, 48, pleaded...