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Neon Underwriting Promotes Butt to CEO, Washington to Managing Director
Dec 21 2018 // Neon Underwriting Ltd. (NUL), Neon’s Lloyd’s managing agency, announced the promotions of Theo Butt to chief executive officer and Matthew Washington to managing director with immediate effect. The appointments...
Rare Tornado Touches Down in Washington, Damages Homes
Dec 20 2018 // A rare tornado touched down in a Seattle suburb on Tuesday, the National Weather Service confirmed. The tornado damaged several homes and toppled trees, authorities said. Based on radar imagery and video evidence, a...
Worldwide Facilities Adds Ives as Broker, Cannabis Specialist in Washington
Dec 18 2018 // Worldwide Facilities has named Norman Ives to the management and brokerage team in its NutraRisk division, which specializes in cannabis, nutraceuticals and dietary supplements insurance coverage. Ives, who is based out of...
Harassment Suit Against Washington Prosecutor Settled, $350K to be Paid Out of Insurance Pool
Dec 17 2018 // A former Clallam County employee’s sexual harassment lawsuit against a county prosecuting attorney has been settled for $350,000. The Peninsula Daily News reported Tina Hendrickson, and Prosecuting Attorney Mark...
Alliant Names Davidson Vice President in Washington
Dec 14 2018 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has named Megan Davidson vice president within the company’s real estate group. Davidson will be based in Alliant’s Seattle, Wash. office, and will provide insurance and risk...
G20 Skirts Taboos in Reaching Agreement on WTO Reforms
Dec 3 2018 // Many delegates from the world’s 20 largest economies arrived at a summit in Argentina this week determined to clinch an agreement to reform the global trade system, pushed to a breaking point by tensions between the...
How Taxpayers Subsidize Rebuilding Homes After Flooding… Repeatedly
Nov 28 2018 // Floodwaters rose about 15 inches (40 centimeters) into Danielle Rees’ home in September when Hurricane Florence drenched this tidewater city on the Pamlico River and overwhelmed a local creek and marshland. The first...
Valley Insurance Agency in Washington Joins Leavitt Group
Nov 27 2018 // Leavitt Group has made Valley Insurance Agency part of Leavitt Group Northwest. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Valley Insurance Agency’s Robert Bush, Sheila Siggins and Ginger Patton will remain with the...
Earthquake Confirmed in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula
Nov 21 2018 // A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has shaken an area beneath Olympic National Park south of Port Angeles, the U.S. Geological Survey has confirmed. The USGS reported the earthquake hit just after 3 a.m. Monday. There were no...
Jury Awards $600K in Idaho Triple-Fatal Boat Crash
Nov 5 2018 // An eastern Washington man found not guilty of three counts of involuntary manslaughter in a criminal trial following a boating crash on Lake Coeur d’Alene in northern Idaho has been ordered to pay $600,000 in a civil...
Cascade Insurance Agency in Washington Merges with Leavitt Group
Oct 30 2018 // Oak Harbor, Wash.-based Cascade Insurance Agency merged operations with Leavitt Group Northwest. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Shelli Trumbull will join Sue Blouin and Bonnie Wallin in Leavitt Group’s Oak...
Transit Authority in Washington Settles Bus Fatality for $7.7M
Oct 30 2018 // King County Metro Transit in Washington has apologized and made a multimillion-dollar payment to the family of an Amazon employee who was killed last year by a turning bus. The Seattle Times reports 43-year-old John Ahn...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Richter International Consulting in Washington
Oct 24 2018 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Issaquah, Wash.-based Richter International Consulting LLC. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founder Dave Richter and his associates will continue to operate from their...
Washington Packing House to Pay $525K in Sexual Harassment Settlement
Oct 23 2018 // A Grant County, Wash. vegetable-packing house will pay $525,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging a supervisor groped, propositioned and retaliated against female workers. The Seattle Times reports State Attorney General Bob...
Suit Says Safeco Field in Washington Discriminates Against Wheelchair Users
Oct 22 2018 // Wheelchair users attending Seattle Mariners baseball games at Safeco Field get a “second-class” experience, a nonprofit disability-rights law firm says, and has filed a discrimination lawsuit. The Seattle Times...
$28M Settlement for Washington Crash Survivor
Oct 19 2018 // Washington state has agreed to pay a $28 million settlement to woman who was left quadriplegic in wreck on Interstate 5 in DuPont. The News Tribune reported 20-year-old Skylar Seward filed a lawsuit against the state...
More Washington Troopers Filing Carbon Monoxide Claims
Oct 15 2018 // Two more Washington State Patrol troopers plan to sue the state over carbon monoxide poisoning, bringing the total number of troopers intending to sue to seven. KOIN-TV reported Trooper Chad Prentice of Vancouver and...
Washington Lands Commissioner Wants $55M for Wildfires
Oct 12 2018 // Washington’s Public Lands Commissioner wants lawmakers to increase the amount of money that the state spends to fight wildfires and prevent future blazes. Hilary Franz, who oversees the Department of Natural...
Washington Woman Settles for $275K in Case Alleging Officer Harassment
Oct 8 2018 // A woman who says she was harassed and intimidated by a police officer in the southwest Washington city of Woodland has settled a lawsuit against him for $275,000. The Daily News in Longview reported that the city’s...
U.S. Warns of New Cyber Attacks by Group with China Ties
Oct 4 2018 // The U.S. government on Wednesday warned that a hacking group widely known as cloudhopper, which Western cybersecurity firms have linked to the Chinese government, has launched attacks on technology service providers in a...
