All the headlines from our Washington Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 19 2011 // Medicus Insurance Co. is now offering medical professional liability coverage to physicians and surgeons in Washington. Medicus is an admitted insurer in 31 states from coast to coast. Medicus offers Medicus Advantage...
Oct 17 2011 // It was a busy weekend for oil and fuel spills around Washington’s coast.Containment efforts are wrapped up on three oil or fuel spills off the state’s coast. On Saturday, a barge carrying a 5-ton crane that...
Oct 17 2011 // Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority recently filed a lawsuit against its insurer Lexington Insurance Co. of Boston charging that that the insurer failed to indemnify for the revenue losses in the train...
Oct 17 2011 // AWashington insurance agent who sold hundreds of thousands of dollars in fake business-insurance policies has been sentenced to more than two years in prison and ordered to pay back $532,659 in restitution.Brenda...
Oct 11 2011 // Renton, Wash.-based Bell-Anderson Agency Inc. has acquired Unico Insurance of Woodinville, Wash. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. “Bell-Anderson will continue to pursue acquisition opportunities as they...
Oct 7 2011 // An insurance agent who sold hundreds of thousands of dollars in fake business-insurance policies has been sentenced to more than two years in prison and ordered to pay back $532,659 in restitution.Brenda MacLaren-Beattie,...
Oct 3 2011 // Swett & Crawford has opened a satellite office in Redondo Beach, Calif. The office will be led by Brian Vassallo, who is joining the firm as a vice president. Vassallo, who has a decade of experience in wholesale...
Sep 30 2011 // Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has recently filed a lawsuit against its insurer Lexington Insurance Co. of Boston charging that that the insurer failed to indemnify for the revenue losses in the train...
Sep 28 2011 // For disaster victims rebuilding their homes, towns and lives, the anxiety is matched only by anger at Congress for entangling their future in a political battle over government spending.A sharply divided Congress has...
Sep 27 2011 // Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has fined insurance companies nearly $1 million so far this year for violating Washington insurance laws, violations that include charging unapproved rates, improper advertising and...
Sep 23 2011 // McLarens Young International has acquired Washington Oregon Claim Service, a middle market claims adjusting firm in the Pacific Northwest.The acquisition is Atlanta-based MYI’s first step into the U.S. middle market,...
Sep 23 2011 // A major overhaul of the workers’ compensation system in Washington is already helping keep costs down for businesses, state officials said Tuesday while disclosing a major rate increase isn’t needed to keep...
Sep 22 2011 // Ames & Gough, an insurance broker and risk management consultant specializing in serving design professionals, law firms and other professional organizations and consulting firms, has promoted four officers.Ames &...
Sep 19 2011 // A Washington state couple has settled a lawsuit against Josephine County for $1.2 million after they were injured in a fall from a suspension bridge at a bed and breakfast made up of tree houses.The federal court suit was...
Sep 19 2011 // A workers’ compensation rate increase may be in store for Washington for 2012. A final decision is expecetd in December.The state’s Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) has asked the Workers’...
Sep 13 2011 // A workers’ compensation rate increase may be in store for Washington for 2012.The state’s Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) on Monday asked the Workers’ Compensation Advisory Committee for...
Sep 9 2011 // Western Heritage Insurance Co. has promoted Anthony Washington from vice president of underwriting to president. Washington replaces replaced Mike Horsman, who retired after more than 30 years in the insurance...
Sep 5 2011 // There was a crack in the Washington Monument, and capstones were broken at the National Cathedral. In the District of Columbia suburbs, some people stayed in shelters because of structural concerns at their apartment...
Sep 5 2011 // A Washington State couple has lost their appeal of a ruling that allowed Farmers Insurance to deny their uninsured motorist claim following a single-car accident, which they said was caused by another driver who...
Aug 31 2011 // The only thing worse than getting flooded out of your home once is getting flooded out of it twice. Or, for that matter, over and over again.Margaret Wert bought her Wayne, New Jersey house in 1999, relying on assurances...