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Rapper Nelly Settles Washington Sex Assault Lawsuit
Oct 1 2018 // The rapper Nelly has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed in Washington by a woman who alleges that he raped her on his tour bus then defamed her when he claimed she made up the accusation. The Seattle Times reported...
Washington Employers May See Big Drop in Workers’ Comp Costs
Oct 1 2018 // The price of workers’ compensation insurance in Washington could drop significantly in 2019. The Washington Department of Labor & Industries in late September proposed a 5 percent decrease in the average premium...
Stone Creek Expands in Washington with Four New Hires
Sep 27 2018 // Stone Creek Insurance Agency is expanding its Spokane, Wash. presence with the addition of four new employees. San Francisco Bay Area-based Stone Creek launched its Spokane office in February. Charles Hook has been named...
Washington Employers May See Big Drop in 2019 Workers’ Comp Rates
Sep 20 2018 // The price of workers’ compensation insurance in Washington could drop significantly in 2019. The Washington Department of Labor & Industries this week proposed a 5 percent decrease in the average premium...
Washington Tow Company Being Sued over Sale of Serviceman’s Car
Sep 14 2018 // A Washington Tacoma towing company is being accused of illegally selling an impounded car belonging to a serviceman deployed on the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier. The News Tribune reported the state Attorney...
Family of Unarmed Man Killed by Washington Police Settles for $13M
Sep 11 2018 // The city of Lakewood, Wash., its police chief and two officers have agreed to pay $13 million to the family of an unarmed black man who was killed four years ago as he clutched his 4-year-old son following a four-hour...
Washington Fines Insurance Providers, Including T-Mobile, for Illegal Rebates
Sep 10 2018 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler issued fines in July totaling $115,050 against insurance companies, agents and brokers for reported violations of state insurance regulations. The alleged violators and their...
Major Hotels Agree to Provide Staff with Panic Buttons to Fight Harassment
Sep 7 2018 // Major hotel chains including Marriott International Inc and Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. said on Thursday they are arming U.S. employees with panic buttons to fight sexual harassment and crime, an about-face for an...
Boeing Sued Over Contamination of Washington River
Sep 3 2018 // A new lawsuit says the Boeing aircraft company is poisoning the Duwamish River by pumping out pollution that is far and away above the legal limit. Environmental groups Puget Soundkeeper and Waste Action Project say the...
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...
Washington City, Insurer Settle with Utility over Fire Started by Police
Aug 27 2018 // A city in eastern Washington state has agreed to a settlement with a power company after a large fire started last year during a gun-shooting training exercise for local police officers. The Yakima Herald-Republic reports...
Boeing Sued Over Contamination of Washington River
Aug 22 2018 // A new lawsuit says the Boeing aircraft company is poisoning the Duwamish River by pumping out pollution that is far and away above the legal limit. KOMO-TV reported environmental groups Puget Soundkeeper and Waste Action...
Gellermann Named Chief Deputy Commissioner in Washington
Aug 21 2018 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has named AnnaLisa Gellermann chief deputy commissioner. She begins Aug. 27. Gellerman is currently the deputy commissioner for the policy and legislative affairs division....
Washington Lawmaker Sues University, Investigator over Firing
Aug 20 2018 // Republican Rep. Matt Manweller is suing Central Washington University and the investigator it hired to look into allegations of inappropriate conduct. Manweller, a political professor at the college since 2003, was fired...
Washington Lawsuit Says College Dean Raped Assistant
Aug 17 2018 // A woman has filed a lawsuit against Bellevue College claiming the school, and by extension Washington state, fostered a hostile work environment by failing to protect her from a former dean. SeattlePI.com reported the...
Heffernan Opens Retirement Services Office in Washington Led by Thibault
Aug 10 2018 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers has opened a retirement services location in Seattle, Wash., to be overseen by Blake Thibault, managing director of Heffernan’s financial services division. Also located in the office are...
Serious Worker Injuries at Lead to $250K in Fines for Washington Manufacturer
Aug 9 2018 // A Seattle, Wash. company that manufactures electronics mounting systems and other products is facing more than $250,000 in fines for multiple serious and willful worker safety and health violations. The state’s...
Stone Creek in California Names Bornstein Commercial Producer in Washington
Aug 9 2018 // Lafayette, Calif- based Stone Creek has named Joe Bornstein a commercial producer in its Spokane, Wash. office. Bornstein’s emphasis will be on small business on the West Coast. Bornstein comes to Stone Creek by from...
Two Women Sentenced in Washington for Insurance Fraud
Jul 26 2018 // Two Washington state women have been sentenced after pleading guilty to committing insurance fraud, the state insurance department announced. The sentencing is the result of an investigation conducted by the Criminal...
Trump, EU Agree to Trade Talks; Place Auto Tariffs on Hold
Jul 26 2018 // In what the EU chief called a “major concession,” U.S. President Donald Trump agreed on Wednesday to refrain from imposing car tariffs while the two sides launch negotiations to cut other trade barriers, easing...
