Latest Washington Headlines
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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...
Construction Industry and the Latino Workforce
Sep 25 2006 // In the next 10 years, the construction business will need to fill more than 180,000 jobs. As the rush to fill these positions advances, workers’ compensation professionals will be challenged along with the...
Hawaii, Washington, Wyoming bringing down workers’ comp rates
Sep 25 2006 // Hawaii, Washington and Wyoming proposed lowering workers’ compensation rates in their states from 2 percent to 12.3 percent. The Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs’ Insurance Division announced...
STATE PATROL VETERAN HIRED FOR ANTI-FRAUD HIT
Sep 25 2006 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has appointed a veteran of the State Patrol to manage the agency’s newly authorized insurance anti-fraud program. Capt. Robert Veliz of Yakima, a 26-year veteran of the...
News Currents
Sep 25 2006 // Employers are paying more attention to worker and workplace safety, which is helping states like Hawaii and Wyoming to reduce its workers’ compensation rates. Hawaii, Washington, Wyoming bringing down workers’...
Fraud Roundup
Sep 25 2006 // State Patrol veteran hired for anti-fraud unit Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has appointed a veteran of the State Patrol to manage the agency’s newly authorized insurance anti-fraud program. Capt....
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...
!Cuidado! Construction Industry and the Latino Workforce
Sep 25 2006 // In the next 10 years, the construction business will need to fill more than 180,000 jobs. As the rush to fill these positions advances, workers’ compensation professionals will be challenged along with the...
Wash. Report Reveals Cost of the Uninsured More than $550 Million
Sep 21 2006 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has released a report revealing that the cost of providing health care for the uninsured in Washington state has risen to more than half a billion dollars a year. According...
L&I Director Resigns to Head Washington Health Care Association
Sep 15 2006 // Gary Weeks, director of the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (L&I), announced he is resigning to become executive director of the Washington Health Care Association. Weeks’ last day at...
Medical Liability Insurer Sold by Washington Commissioner
Sep 8 2006 // After operating a major insurer of the Washington’s rural hospitals and medical centers for more than three years under a court order, Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has announced his intent to sell the...
Montana Firefighters Battle Bees as well as Wildfires
Sep 8 2006 // Montana firefighters battling a wildfire that has blackened nearly 290 square miles and burned 26 homes faced a new challenge, authorities said: bees. The blaze that started with lightning on Aug. 22 has forced hundreds to...
State Patrol Veteran Hired for Washington Anti-Fraud Unit
Sep 6 2006 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has appointed a veteran of the State Patrol to manage the agency’s newly authorized insurance anti-fraud program. Capt. Robert Veliz of Yakima, a 26-year veteran of the...
Washington appoints assistant attorney general
Sep 4 2006 // Washington’s Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) said that the State Attorney General’s Office has assigned a full-time assistant attorney general, Susan R. DanPullo, to assist the agency in combating...
People and Places
Sep 4 2006 // Ogilvy-Hill Insurance elected Mark Shipp president and CEO. Shipp has been with Ogilvy Hill for 11 years. In addition to his new role as president/CEO he will continue to build new relationships in the field. Also, Phillip...
