All the headlines from our Washington Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 6 2014 // U.S. Supreme Court justices sought a middle ground to preserve class-action shareholder lawsuits as they heard a case testing the legal rules that have fostered thousands of cases over the past quarter century.Hearing...
Mar 4 2014 // Bellevue, Wash.-based Fulcrum Insurance Programs named Nikki Wyer vice president of underwriting and product development. Wyer’s responsibilities include management of Fulcrum’s underwriting division as well as...
Feb 26 2014 // The biggest U.S. banks and insurance companies would have to pay a quarterly 3.5 basis-point tax on assets exceeding $500 billion under a plan to be unveiled this week by Congress’s top Republican tax writer.The...
Feb 25 2014 // The Toppenish School District has agreed to pay $6.9 million to the family of an infant who fell through bleachers at a soccer game and suffered lifelong debilitating injuries.The Yakima Herald-Republic reported that the...
Feb 24 2014 // Kevin KolendaKevin Kolenda, 56, a Connecticut businessman who has been reportedly defrauding golf tournaments and golfers for two decades, was sentenced in February in King County Superior Court in Washington.Judge Jean...
Feb 21 2014 // The mother of a 22-year-old man with severe food allergies who died at the Snohomish County Jail in Washington in 2012 has sued Snohomish County.The lawsuit Rose Saffioti filed Wednesday lists as defendants the county, a...
Feb 20 2014 // The Leavitt Group has hired Jim Lineweaver, a client advisor, in its Tacoma, Wash. office. Lineweaver has 25 years of insurance experience. He specializes in large manufacturing risks, forest products, transportation,...
Feb 13 2014 // The winter storm that cut electricity to more than half a million customers across the South and grounded 10,000 flights this week turned its power on the U.S. Northeast, bringing heavy snow from Virginia to Maine.In...
Feb 12 2014 // Washington state lawmakers are considering competing measures that try to address potential risks as more crude oil is shipped by rail into the state.The Senate Ways and Means Committee heard testimony on a mostly...
Feb 10 2014 // A bipartisan Washington climate panel has released dueling reports how to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions. The panel posted separate reports online in late January, splitting along party lines. It had...
Feb 7 2014 // Kevin Kolenda, 56, a Connecticut businessman who has been reportedly defrauding golf tournaments and golfers for two decades, was sentenced Friday in King County Superior Court in Washington.Judge Jean Rietschel sentenced...
Feb 5 2014 // A federal court jury in Tacoma, Wash. has awarded $9 million to a former Vancouver police officer who was wrongfully convicted of sexually abusing his children in the 1980s and spent nearly 20 years in prison.Ray Spencer...
Feb 5 2014 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI)said it has added three new hires. Tom Glassic will join the association as vice president, policy and government relations; Nicole Austin will join the...
Jan 31 2014 // The attorney representing families of six workers killed in a 2010 explosion at Tesoro’s Anacortes oil refinery have settled a lawsuit against Tesoro and Shell Oil Co.Attorney David Beninger told KING-TV the wrongful...
Jan 27 2014 // Washington state legislators will consider modernizing how insurance transactions are conducted.House Bill 2662, authored by State Rep. Derek Stanford, D-Bothell, will enable policyholders to access their insurance policy...
Jan 24 2014 // A bipartisan Washington climate panel has released dueling reports how to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions. The panel posted separate reports online Wednesday, splitting along party lines. It had missed a...
Jan 22 2014 // A Seattle man who lost his parents and whose wife and infant son were seriously injured last March by a drunken driver asked a Senate panel on Monday to pass a measure that would make it a felony charge to drive under the...
Jan 17 2014 // Commuter rail accidents including a New York derailment last month that killed four prompted a U.S. investigative agency to name improving transit safety as its top priority for 2014.The National Transportation Safety...
Jan 16 2014 // Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will do just about anything to help Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu.He arranged the chamber’s floor agenda this week so Landrieu could lead debate on a flood insurance rate reprieve...
Jan 14 2014 // The Leavitt Group’s Tacoma, Wash. office has expanded services by bringing on three employee benefits professionals. Jon Montgomery, senior executive vice president of benefits, will lead the new employee benefits...