All the headlines from our Washington Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 13 2016 // Palomar Specialty Insurance Co., in partnership with Arrowhead General Insurance Agency, Inc. and TriCoast Insurance Services, LLC, has expanded its Value Select Residential Earthquake Insurance Program into Oregon and...
May 3 2016 // Propel Insurance has named Michael McCormick a sales executive in the firm’s construction practice. McCormick will be working out of Propel’s Seattle, Wash. location. His prior experience includes sales at...
May 2 2016 // Signs of earthquakes are everywhere in the chaotically beautiful geology of southwest Utah and the region where the mile-high Colorado Plateau falls off into the corrugated Basin-and-Range landscape that dominates...
May 2 2016 // Workplace deaths in Washington fell to a near-historic low in 2015, according to a Department of Labor & Industries report out in mid-April.Last year there were 58 work-related deaths in the state, 18 fewer than in...
Apr 28 2016 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has fined the Tesoro oil refinery in Anacortes, Wash. nearly $720,000 for alleged safety violations.The EPA said last week it filed a complaint seeking penalties for violations...
Apr 27 2016 // The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Plaza in Austin, Texas is a strip mall with a pet-accessories store, a Thai restaurant and a yogurt shop, an unlikely venue to display the high-tech future.But one Saturday morning in March,...
Apr 22 2016 // Bellevue, Wash.-based Ultra Risk Advisors has named Karen McDonald underwriting director for its program providing liability coverage for senior living facilities. McDonald has more than 10 years of underwriting experience...
Apr 20 2016 // UnitedHealth Group Inc. will drop out of government-organized health insurance markets in at least 16 states as the U.S. industry leader tries to stem losses from participating in Obamacare, the healthcare overhaul that...
Apr 18 2016 // Workplace deaths in Washington fell to a near-historic low in 2015, according to a Department of Labor & Industries report.Last year there were 58 work-related deaths in the state, 18 fewer than in 2014, and L&I...
Apr 11 2016 // Germany’s BMW has launched a car-sharing service in Seattle, Wash. where it will offer customers the use of 370 BMW and Mini vehicles, before expanding to other cities in the United States.Established carmakers...
Apr 7 2016 // A minor earthquake hit northwest Washington state on Tuesday morning. The U.S. Geological Survey and the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network reported that the 3.5-magnitude temblor hit at 11:06 a.m. in the Strait of Juan de...
Apr 7 2016 // The Port of Bellingham in Washington has been ordered to pay $16 million to an Alaska ferries employee who was injured while operating a faulty loading ramp at the port’s cruise terminal. The Seattle Times reported...
Apr 4 2016 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has acquired Spokane, Wash.-based Andre-Romberg Insurance Agency.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Andre-Romberg will operate as part of Alliant Americas. Kurtz, along with...
Mar 28 2016 // A Washington man is suing a California company, claiming its medical device used to treat aneurysms malfunctioned and caused him to suffer brain damage.The Penumbra Coil 400 was used to treat an aneurysm Dennis Montgomery...
Mar 25 2016 // The Seattle Archdiocese in Washington will pay just over $9 million to eight women who were sexually abused as children by a former priest in Whatcom and Skagit counties.The abuse occurred between 1968 and 1974 at churches...
Mar 21 2016 // Emergency management officials in Washington say a neighborhood of 26 homes near Wenatchee is at imminent risk for a landslide.The Chelan County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday the slope between 4900 and 5200...
Mar 21 2016 // Wasington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler took enforcement action and issued fines totaling $17,675 last month against insurance companies and producers who he says violated state insurance regulations.Here’s...
Mar 18 2016 // A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed on behalf of a man who was killed when the excavator he was driving tumbled down a cliff about 25 miles southeast of Tacoma, Wash.The News Tribune reports that 22-year-old Jared...
Mar 14 2016 // Wasington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler took enforcement action and issued fines totaling $17,675 last month against insurance companies and producers who he says violated state insurance regulations.Here’s...
Mar 11 2016 // A school district is among the targets of a lawsuit over an E. coli outbreak linked to sickened kids who attended a dairy festival field trip in Washington.The Seattle Times reported families of six kids sickened after...