Latest District Of Columbia Headlines
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Haynes and Boone Hires Raptis as a Partner in Its Washington D.C. Office
Mar 6 2020 // Haynes and Boone LLP has hired Stephen Raptis as a partner in the Washington, D.C., office, bolstering the national expansion of the firm’s Insurance Recovery Practice Group. Over his 25-year career, Raptis has...
CBIZ Acquires Alliance Insurance Services of Washington D.C.
Feb 7 2020 // CBIZ Inc., a provider of financial, insurance and advisory services, has acquired substantially all of the assets of Alliance Insurance Services Inc. (AIS) of Washington, D.C., effective February 1, 2020. With roots dating...
Uber Goes to Washington. Autonomous Cars with Humans to Collect Data in D.C.
Jan 24 2020 // Uber Technologies Inc. will put self-driving vehicles on Washington, D.C. roads Friday with human drivers in control, the ride share company said on Thursday, as it seeks to collect data for future deployment of fully...
Farmers Expands Program, Now Insuring Uber Drivers in 14 States and D.C.
Jan 7 2020 // Farmers Insurance has expanded its relationship with Uber by providing commercial automobile insurance to its ridesharing drivers in 12 additional states and the District of Columbia. In addition to the District of...
Vape Crisis Prompts Calls for Greater Clarity in Cannabis Regulation
Dec 3 2019 // Cannabis industry lawyers are calling for greater clarity around regulation of the cannabis industry. Panelists at the 2019 Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS) Conference in Washington D.C. this month said...
Two Workers Hurt in Crash Between Washington D.C. Commuter Trains
Oct 11 2019 // Authorities in Washington, D.C., say two regional transit agency workers were hurt when one commuter train rear-ended another. WTOP-FM reports D.C. Fire and EMS tweeted that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit...
Workers’ Compensation Premiums Up 2.2% in First Half of 2019
Oct 7 2019 // In the aggregate, workers’ compensation insurers reported a modest increase in direct written premiums in the U.S. for the first six months of 2019 versus the same period 2018, up 2.2%. However, the 25 carriers with...
States Questioning How Juul’s Vaping Device Became So Popular with Teens
Sep 4 2019 // E-cigarette giant Juul Labs is facing mounting scrutiny from state law enforcement officials, with the attorneys general in Illinois and the District of Columbia investigating how the company’s blockbuster vaping...
Ames & Gough Appoints Witherow as an Assistant Vice President in Washington D.C.
Aug 27 2019 // Ames & Gough, an insurance broker and risk management consultant specializing in serving design professionals, law firms, associations/nonprofits and other professional service organizations, has appointed Jessie...
Blank Rome Hires Michael to Insurance Recovery Group in Washington D.C.
Aug 20 2019 // Blank Rome LLP has announced that Partner Helen K. Michael has joined the firm’s Insurance Recovery group based in its Washington, D.C., office. Michael joins from Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, where she...
Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Expands Commercial Auto into Delaware, Kentucky, D.C.
Jul 19 2019 // Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies have expanded its commercial automobile product into Delaware, Kentucky, and the District of Columbia. The company’s policy is designed for local and intermediate travel...
D.C. Judge Lets Cambridge Analytica Privacy Suit Against Facebook Proceed
Jun 4 2019 // Facebook Inc. must defend itself in a District of Columbia lawsuit accusing the social network of failing to safeguard users’ personal data and allowing a U.K. political consulting firm to mine the information for...
Washington D.C. Plans to Confront Climate Change by Retrofitting Flood-Prone Buildings
Apr 29 2019 // Washington is announcing a goal of retrofitting or removing all of its flood-prone buildings by 2050, the first major U.S. city to set such a policy. The proposal is part of a broader plan to protect Washington, which is...
Mayor Establishes D.C. Financial Services Regulatory Sandbox, Innovation Council
Mar 4 2019 // District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser recently established the District of Columbia Financial Services Regulatory Sandbox and Innovation Council. The council is charged with studying and reporting on the feasibility of...
Insurtech Trov Now Selling in 7 Additional States and D.C.
Feb 21 2019 // Insurtech Trōv is now offering its on-demand online, single-item insurance products in seven additional states and the District of Columbia. Trōv has now expanded into Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Michigan,...
Mayor Establishes D.C. Financial Services Regulatory Sandbox, Innovation Council
Feb 14 2019 // District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser recently established the District of Columbia Financial Services Regulatory Sandbox and Innovation Council. The council is charged with studying and reporting on the feasibility of...
Washington D.C.’s Ensurise Merges with Maryland’s Reese, Yeatman & Associates
Jan 24 2019 // Independent insurance agency Ensurise LLC has merged with the property and casualty insurance brokerage operations of Reese, Yeatman & Associates Inc. Founded more than 40 years ago by Michael G. Reese Sr., Reese...
M&T Insurance Agency Hires Batt in Washington D.C.
Jan 22 2019 // M&T Insurance Agency (MTIA) has hired Jeffrey Batt to its Washington, D.C., office as the cyber insurance practice leader. In this role, he will manage client relationships by providing cyber insurance and risk...
Pastor Pleads Guilty to Setting Fire to His Washington D.C. Rental Apartment
Aug 29 2018 // The pastor of a Baltimore, Md., church has pled guilty to setting fire to an apartment he rented in Southeast Washington in a plan to collect insurance money. Jamel Carelock, the pastor of Lead Church, pled guilty in the...
Hub International Limited Acquires Shares of Washington D.C.’s Flather & Perkins
Jun 5 2018 // Hub International Limited, a global insurance brokerage, has acquired the shares of Flather & Perkins Inc. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., and founded in 1917, Flather...
