All the headlines from our Washington Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 18 2016 // More than 380,000 students in Washington state live in earthquake-prone areas and attend schools built before seismic construction standards were adopted statewide, according to a Seattle Times report.The newspaper,...
Jul 12 2016 // Employees laid off by Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc. in 2013 filed a lawsuit on Monday accusing the aircraft parts supplier of singling them out by age and disability.Twenty-four plaintiffs were named and another 150 may...
Jul 11 2016 // Golf tournament insurance scammer and convicted felon Kevin Kolenda is wanted on a national extradition warrant after he failed to appear in Snohomish County Superior Court in Washington July 7 to face one felony charge...
Jul 8 2016 // Kitsap Transit has settled a lawsuit with a Washington woman who was hit by a bus while riding her bicycle near Poulsbo.The Kitsap Sun reported the Washington State Transit Insurance Pool, of which Kitsap Transit is a...
Jul 7 2016 // An Auburn, Wash. man has been charged on allegations that he engaged in sexual conduct with two 4-year-old girls at a Renton day care center where he worked.The 21-year-old suspect was charged this week with child...
Jul 6 2016 // The Stillaguamish Tribe is fighting off suggestions by the Washington Attorney General’s Office that it might face liability for the devastating Oso landslide, which wiped out a rural neighborhood and killed 43...
Jun 29 2016 // The physician who used a non-FDA-approved bone cement during a woman’s spinal surgery and the company that ran an illegal test market to promote the dangerous product should be held accountable for her death, a...
Jun 20 2016 // General Motors Co. is rolling out a sedan laden with gadgets that track other cars on the road and can automatically brake to avoid collisions, fulfilling a safety vision decades in the making.Yet the 2017 Cadillac CTS...
Jun 17 2016 // Insurance broker Lockton announced that it will add its Washington, D.C., operations to a newly combined Lockton Northeast team. Michael Calabrese will remain as chairman and CEO of the expanded Lockton operations in the...
Jun 17 2016 // Two more workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation have received medical evaluations for possible vapor exposure at the former nuclear weapons production site.The Tri-City Herald reported that the workers said they had...
Jun 15 2016 // A Washington physician faces charges in connection with insurance fraud following an investigation by the Washington Department of Insurance.Dr. Jian Xu, 59, faces felony charges in King County Superior Court of...
Jun 9 2016 // Seattle, Wash.-based real-estate information website Zillow is paying $130 million to settle a lawsuit brought by rival Move Inc.The Seattle Times reported that the settlement was disclosed in securities filings earlier...
Jun 8 2016 // The chair of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee has proposed getting rid of much of the regulation put in place after the financial crisis, unveiling a plan on Tuesday that ignited fierce debate in the...
Jun 6 2016 // The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) has filed a federal lawsuit against Travelers Indemnity Company and Travelers Casualty Insurance Company of America, accusing the insurers of violating local and federal housing...
Jun 3 2016 // Wall Street and business lobbying groups have teamed up to fight the Obama administration’s new rules for U.S. brokers managing retirement accounts, saying the regulations include a ” deliberately...
Jun 2 2016 // Getting insurers to rid themselves of investments in fossil fuels, creating products to deal with climate change and helping the world better understand risk, were among the topics on Wednesday at a summit on the insurance...
May 26 2016 // It may not be a climate change summit for the ages like last year’s Paris meeting in which world leaders hashed out a historic agreement to reduce carbon emissions, but it does have two things in common with the 2015...
May 23 2016 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler issued fines in April totaling $113,600 against insurance companies, agents and brokers who he said violated state insurance regulations.The list, which Kreidler’s...
May 23 2016 // The Idaho Department of Insurance received notice from the Washington Office of Insurance Commissioner revoking the license of Randy W. Tate, a Washington resident.Idaho insurance code gives the director the right to...
May 23 2016 // A Grant County judge has given preliminary approval to a settlement in a class action lawsuit filed by mobile homeowners against their landlord in central Washington. The lawsuit alleges that Royal Coachman Mobile Home...