Latest Washington Headlines
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Lawsuit Filed by Family of Man in Washington Fatal Shooting
Mar 22 2022 // The family of a man police fatally shot during a purported drug investigation is suing the Vancouver Police Department and the Washington Department of Corrections. Carlos Hunter, 43, died after law enforcement officers...
$2M Settlement in Washington Police Killing Lawsuit
Mar 21 2022 // The city of Poulsbo, Washington, and its police department will pay $2 million to settle a civil-rights lawsuit filed by the family of Stonechild Chiefstick, according to attorneys. Police shot Chiefstick at a park during...
Washington Addressing Flooding That Has Displaced Residents Near Border
Mar 21 2022 // U.S. and Canadian government leaders have agreed to work together to address flooding near the northwest Washington state border with Canada on the Nooksack River. The Bellingham Herald reported Washington state Gov. Jay...
Jury Awards $100M-Plus to Victims of Washington Crane Collapse
Mar 16 2022 // A jury awarded more than $100 million this week to some of the victims of a tower crane collapse that killed four people in Seattle in 2019. Workers were disassembling the 300-foot crane in strong wind gusts when it fell...
Washington Contractors Fined for Death of Worker at Convention Center
Mar 16 2022 // Washington state has fined two construction companies a combined $20,000 after a construction worker was killed at the downtown Seattle convention center expansion. Bryan Phillips, 31, died in an accident at the site in...
$750K Settlement of Washington Suit Over Man’s Jail Suicide
Mar 14 2022 // King County has agreed to pay $750,000 to the family of a man who killed himself in a Seattle, Washington, jail after they filed a lawsuit alleging jail officials knew or should have known the man was in crisis but failed...
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Hawley & Associates in Washington
Mar 14 2022 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. acquired Bellevue, Washington-based Hawley & Associates LLC. Hawley & Associates was founded to provide specialized insurance services for adoption, foster care and child welfare...
Hub Acquires Pacific Northwest Insurance in Washington
Mar 8 2022 // Hub International Ltd. acquired the assets of Pacific Northwest Insurance Inc. in Kirkland, Washington. Robert James, principal of PNI, and the PNI team will join Hub Northwest. PNI provides property/casualty, and personal...
Washington Contractor Sentenced in Fatal Workplace Trench Collapse
Mar 8 2022 // A Seattle, Washington, construction company owner is facing jail time in a case that’s holding an employer criminally responsible for a preventable worker death. Alki Construction owner Phillip Numrich was sentenced...
Washington Insurance Commissioner Accused of Mistreating Staff
Mar 7 2022 // Washington state Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler is facing allegations that he verbally mistreats staff and has grown increasingly volatile in recent months, leading to high turnover in the office. The Northwest News...
Washington Roofing Manufacturer Fined $100K in Worker Death
Mar 7 2022 // The failure to follow lockout/tagout procedures was directly connected to the death of a worker in Sumas, Washington, when an agitator arm inside a tank he was cleaning turned on, according to the Washington State...
Ukrainian Cyber Group to Target Russian Power Grid, Railways
Mar 4 2022 // A Ukrainian cyber guerrilla warfare group plans to launch digital sabotage attacks against critical Russian infrastructure such as railways and the electricity grid, to strike back at Moscow over its invasion, a hacker...
Court Issues Stay on Washington Insurance Credit Scoring Ban
Mar 3 2022 // A Washington judge issued a stay on a rule banning the use of credit scoring by insurers in that state, and consolidated cases challenging the ruling, until the merits of the cases are decided. The rule handed down from...
Biden’s Supreme Court Nominee Defies Expectations on Employer-Employee Cases
Mar 2 2022 // Labor unions and worker advocates have applauded President Joe Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court. Yet a look back at Jackson’s decisions in cases involving business and...
Washington School Bus Carrier Could be Fined $364K for Safety Violations
Feb 28 2022 // Washington state regulators found more than 600 safety and procedural violations by school bus carrier First Student in the past two years, dozens of which persisted for years after company officials were warned of the...
People Moves: Surplus Line Association of California Names Beaver Board Chair, Gobler Vice Chair, Washington Secretary
Feb 28 2022 // The members of the Surplus Line Association of California elected Janet Beaver as chair of the SLA board. Eligible members of the SLA elected her via an electronic vote taken prior to the SLA’s virtual annual meeting...
Washington Inmate’s Family to Get $3.75M in Cancer Death
Feb 25 2022 // Washington state will pay $3.75 million to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the family of a man who died at Monroe Correctional Complex after his cancer went untreated despite repeated pleas. Kenny Williams, 63,...
People Moves: California FAIR Plan Makes Roach President; Wood Named Washington Chief Deputy Commissioner
Feb 24 2022 // Victoria Roach has been appointed by the California FAIR Plan’s executive committee to serve as the association’s next president. Roach will assume the new role on March 1, succeeding Anneliese Jivan, was...
School District in Washington Offers $34M in Toxic Exposure Case
Feb 21 2022 // The Monroe, Washington, School District offered a $34 million settlement to students and parents exposed to toxic chemicals on a public school campus. The district proposed the settlement in November under court seal,...
Washington Businesses Fined After 250 Workers Contract Virus in Same Warehouse
Feb 21 2022 // Three Washington businesses were fined after workers housed in Thurston County hotels and employed at a Lewis County distribution center got sick with COVID-19, and then walked to the hospital for help and feared they...
