Latest Washington Headlines
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The untold story: state guaranty funds
Nov 6 2006 // They’re involved with policyholders every day yet too few people know how these safety valves operate The National Insurance Guaranty Fund program, operating in every state, is the “untold story” in the...
The untold story: state guaranty funds
Nov 5 2006 // The National Insurance Guaranty Fund program, operating in every state, is the “untold story” in the property casualty industry, one insurance trade executive says. “The thing to remember about the...
Washington Employers Save $315 Million in Workers’ Comp
Nov 3 2006 // Washington Governor Chris Gregoire announced that the state’s employers and workers would save an estimated $315 million in workers’ compensation premiums next year as the result of a six-month partial...
Washington Launches Online Complaint Comparison Guide
Nov 2 2006 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has launched a new Web-based tool for consumers, called the annual Complaint Comparison Guide. The guide is designed to allow consumers to search online for their auto,...
Deer-Related Crashes Reportedly Up 19 Percent in Wash., Idaho
Nov 1 2006 // Motor vehicle crashes involving deer are up by about 19 percent in Washington and Idaho, judging by claims filed with one of the largest insurance companies in the two states. In the year ending June 30, 1,629 drivers in...
Business Moves
Oct 23 2006 // OneBeacon,QBE OneBeacon Insurance Group completed its renewal rights and asset sale agreement to transfer its agricultural division to QBE the Americas, a wholly owned division of QBE Insurance Group Ltd., for...
Troubled Washington Casualty Co. sold after three years
Oct 23 2006 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has sold Washington Casualty Co. of Issaquah, Wash., what he called a financially troubled liability insurer of rural hospitals and medical centers and that he has operated...
Washington’s Mike Kreidler Vows to Protect Trust Relationship Between Insurers, Consumers
Oct 12 2006 // Watch Video Interview Washington – Mike Kreidler: Opening Up the Debate Washington Commissioner Mike Kreidler is proud of his state’s consumer record and how it has dealt with brokerage compensation and...
Mich. Med Mal Insurer FinCor Acquires Washington Casualty
Oct 10 2006 // Lansing, Mich.-based FinCor Holdings, Inc., an integrated risk management corporation serving health care providers and facilities, today announced its acquisition of Issaquah, Wash.-based medical malpractice insurer,...
Wash. minimum wage upped to $7.93 per hour
Oct 9 2006 // Washington’s minimum wage will increase 30 cents to $7.93 an hour beginning Jan. 1, 2007. The Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) recalculates the state’s minimum wage each year in September as...
The Commissioners
Oct 9 2006 // Washington’s Mike Kreidler: Making the insurance market work The Washington Office of the Insurance Commissioner is a vigorous protector of consumers under the leadership of Commissioner Mike Kreidler. From...
States go global for new ideas to improve transportation safety
Oct 9 2006 // Searching for ways to improve road safety without breaking the bank, state transportation officials in the U.S. have found inspiration in ideas being implemneted abroad. Low-cost devices increasingly popping up on...
New Markets
Oct 9 2006 // Liability Long Term Care Facilities Nuts & Bolts: Houston, Texas-based London American Risk Specialists Inc. is offering CareSurance, a new liability insurance program designed to meet the needs of skilled, assisted...
Wash. minimum wage upped to $7.93 per hour
Oct 9 2006 // Washington’s minimum wage will increase 30 cents to $7.93 an hour beginning Jan. 1, 2007. The Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) recalculates the state’s minimum wage each year in September as...
Mike Kreidler, Washington, Insurance Commissioner
Oct 9 2006 // The Washington Office of the Insurance Commissioner is a vigorous protector of consumers under the leadership of Commissioner Mike Kreidler. From maintaining a trust relationship between consumers and insurers, to...
States go global for new ideas to improve transportation safety
Oct 9 2006 // Searching for ways to improve road safety without breaking the bank, state transportation officials in the U.S. have found inspiration in ideas being implemneted abroad. Low-cost devices increasingly popping up on...
Physicians Insurance Responds to Washington OIC Consent Order
Oct 3 2006 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has fined the state’s largest medical malpractice insurer $450,000 for multiple violations of insurance laws and regulations that the company has since corrected under...
Washington’s Minimum Wage to Increase to $7.93 an Hour
Oct 2 2006 // Washington’s minimum wage will increase 30 cents to $7.93 an hour beginning Jan. 1, 2007. The Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) recalculates the state’s minimum wage each year in September as...
Investigators Trace Specific Batch of Tainted Spinach
Sep 27 2006 // Test results linking two bags of Dole brand baby spinach to a deadly E. coli strain have helped health officials hone in on a specific batch from a San Juan Bautista, Calif., processing plant that may be the source of a...
Declarations
Sep 25 2006 // Easy attack “For the life of me, I cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply, because it is so easy to do.” –Dr. Jerry R. Gillespie, director of the Western Institute for Food...
