Latest Washington Headlines
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Washington Worker’s Family Sues Over Fatal Boeing 777 Air Bag
Jul 6 2015 // The family of a Washington man who was fatally injured while he was working on a seat belt air bag replacement that inflated explosively is suing Boeing Co. and a supplier. The lawsuit filed last week in King County...
7 in California and Washington Charged with 100+ Counts of Auto Insurance Fraud
Jul 6 2015 // Seven people in California and Washington were arrested for allegedly conspiring to defraud eight insurance companies by submitting fraudulent auto insurance claims totaling more than $175,000. Detectives from the...
Synergy Professional Associates Expands Lawyers Program to Washington
Jun 26 2015 // Synergy Professional Associates has launched a new lawyers professional liability program focused on small law firms in the state of Washington, in partnership with AmTrust Underwriters Inc., an AmTrust Financial...
7 in California and Washington Charged With 100+ Counts of Auto Insurance
Jun 24 2015 // Seven people in California and Washington were arrested for allegedly conspiring to defraud eight insurance companies by submitting fraudulent auto insurance claims totaling more than $175,000. Detectives from the...
Workers Can Be Fired For Off-Duty Marijuana Use, Colorado Court Says
Jun 16 2015 // Pot may be legal in Colorado, but you can still be fired for using it. The state Supreme Court ruled Monday that a medical marijuana patient who was fired after failing a drug test cannot get his job back. The case has big...
How Greenberg’s Lawyer, Boies, Won AIG Bailout Battle
Jun 16 2015 // During the trial, David Boies was his usual mildly rumpled and mostly unpretentious self, peering over his reading glasses, padding around in his hallmark black suede slipper-shoes and smiling his way to victory in a case...
Report: 4.5 Million Homes in 13 States at Extreme Wildfire Risk
Jun 10 2015 // A report issued today shows 4.5 million U.S. homes at high or extreme risk of wildfire as the multi-year drought continues. The report’s author said the worsening drought means 2015 has the potential to be one of the...
U.S. Supreme Court Rejects NRA Challenge to San Francisco Gun Law
Jun 9 2015 // The U.S. Supreme Court turned away a National Rifle Association challenge to a San Francisco law that requires people who store handguns at home to either put them in a lockbox or disable them with a trigger lock. Over two...
Hub Acquires Assets of Lovsted-Worthington in Washington
Jun 3 2015 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired the assets of Lovsted-Worthington Insurance, which serves Seattle and Western Washington. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. LW will become part of the Hub International Northwest...
ITC Acquires Rater Multico-Online in Washington
Jun 3 2015 // Insurance Technologies Corp., a provider of marketing, rating and management software and services, has acquired Multico-Online from Multico Rating Systems Inc., a large Seattle, Wash.-based comparative rating vendor. The...
Washington Hospital Joins ‘Superbug’ Suit Against Scope Maker
Jun 1 2015 // A Seattle, Wash., hospital has joined a lawsuit against the manufacturer of endoscopy medical scopes linked to a “superbug” outbreak at the medical center, claiming the company, Olympus America Inc., put...
Insurance Center for Building Materials Expands into Washington, Oregon, Nevada
May 29 2015 // The Insurance Centre for Building Materials (ICBM), a specialist managing general agent focused on building materials dealers, wood risks and secondary forest products, is now available in the primary wood growing and...
Dozens of Washington Medical Marijuana Dispensaries to Be Shuttered
May 28 2015 // With Washington state overhauling its medical marijuana law, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray says the city is planning to shutter dozens of dispensaries. Murray this week announced plans to require a new special business license...
Safety Chief Rosekind Shifts Defective Car Oversight into Overdrive
May 25 2015 // The U.S. auto safety watchdog, long criticized as toothless and slow, is showing both bark and bite under its new boss – a testimony to his credentials as a safety expert and a hardening of the administration’s...
Washington City to Get Tsunami Warning System
May 19 2015 // Birch Bay, Wash. will soon be equipped with a tsunami warning system. The Bellingham Herald reported that the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office is working with the state to set up an emergency warning system for Birch...
NTSB: Amtrak Train Was Going Double the Speed Limit Before Crash
May 14 2015 // The New York-bound Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia, killing seven and injuring more than 200, was traveling 106 miles per hour just before the accident, more than double the speed limit, according to U.S....
Washington Hospital Joins “Superbug” Suit Against Scope Maker
May 13 2015 // A Seattle, Wash. hospital has joined a lawsuit against the manufacturer of endoscopy medical scopes linked to a “superbug” outbreak at the medical center, claiming the company, Olympus America Inc., put...
6 Killed, Scores Injured as Amtrak Train Derails in Philadelphia
May 13 2015 // Investigators are trying to find out what caused a New York-bound Amtrak train to derail in Philadelphia, killing six, injuring scores and closing part of the busiest passenger rail corridor in the U.S. Northeast Regional...
Brown & Brown Acquires Assets from Bellingham Underwriters in Washington
May 11 2015 // A subsidiary within Brown & Brown Inc.’s national programs division has acquired certain assets of Bellingham Underwriters Inc. in Washington. Bellingham Underwriters is a managing general underwriter that...
Northern Washington Rattled By Small Quake
May 8 2015 // A relatively small magnitude 3.7 earthquake shook the ground north of Seattle on Thursday. The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake at 1:42 a.m. was about 8 miles northeast of Bryant, in Snohomish County. About 50 people...
