Latest Washington Headlines
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Supreme Court Considers Taking Obamacare Tax Credit Case
Oct 30 2014 // The fate of President Barack Obama’s healthcare law is again in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court. Two years after upholding the law by a single vote, the justices are weighing whether to hear a Republican-backed...
Washington Mudslide Victims’ Families File Lawsuit
Oct 29 2014 // Ten families of 14 Oso, Wash. mudslide victims are suing the state, county and a forest owner. The Seattle Times reported the lawsuit alleges the disaster was not natural, but the result of a series of actions and...
Washington City Takes Stock Of Damage Following Tornado
Oct 27 2014 // The southwest Washington city of Longview tallied the damage Friday from a rare tornado that tore off roofs, broke windows and uprooted trees, leaving residents and officials in disbelief. No one was injured in the...
Tornado Warning in Washington County Now Expired
Oct 13 2014 // The National Weather Service issued an emergency tornado warning for Pierce County, Wash. over the weekend though a tornado did not develop. The News Tribune reported the warning was issued shortly after noon on Saturday...
Southern Puget Sound Area of Washington Sees Small Quake
Oct 13 2014 // A small earthquake rattled the southern Puget Sound area of Washington, but there were no reports of damage or injury. The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude 3.5 temblor struck shortly before midnight Saturday and...
Seattle, Boston Top Cities for Pedestrian Safety
Oct 9 2014 // Seattle, where a crowd of football fans celebrating a Super Bowl victory waited at a crosswalk for a signal change this year, is the safest U.S. city for pedestrians, according to a study by Liberty Mutual Holding Co. The...
Washington Commissioner Disciplines Insurers, Producers
Oct 9 2014 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler in September disciplined several insurance companies, agents and brokers who violated state insurance regulations. Following are the names of the parties, their locations and...
Study: Formulary Could Save California Workers’ Comp $124M-$420M
Oct 7 2014 // Adopting a state-mandated workers’ compensation prescription drug formulary similar to systems in place in Texas and Washington could reduce California workers’ comp pharmacy payments by between $124 million...
Ex-Treasurer Paulson Defends AIG’s Harsh Loan Terms
Oct 6 2014 // American International Group Inc. received harsher terms than other financial institutions in the 2008 financial crisis because regulators needed to send a message to markets that government help would cost them, Henry...
Federal Judge in Oklahoma Rules Against Health Insurance Subsidies
Oct 2 2014 // Some of the health-insurance subsidies being offered under the Affordable Care Act represent an “abuse of discretion” by the federal government, a federal judge in Oklahoma ruled on Sept. 30, marking another...
Washington State Entrepreneurs Stake Their Claim in Marijuana ‘Green Rush’
Oct 2 2014 // Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of articles on the the marijuana insurance industry to appear on InsuranceJournal.com. Upcoming stories will include reports on how medical marijuana could affect the...
Marijuana Insurance Industry: How High Can It Go?
Oct 1 2014 // Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of articles on the the marijuana insurance industry to appear on InsuranceJournal.com. Upcoming stories will include reports on how medical marijuana could affect the...
Greenberg’s Lawyer Says U.S. Demonized, Extorted AIG Shareholders in Bailout
Sep 29 2014 // The U.S. extorted American International Group Inc. shareholders when it extended a $182 billion taxpayer bailout at the height of the 2008 financial crisis, a lawyer for Maurice “Hank” Greenberg...
How Spouse’s Personality Influences Job Success
Sep 22 2014 // As people spend more and more time in the workplace, it’s natural for co-workers to develop close bonds — what’s often referred to as a “workplace spouse” or an “office wife.” But when...
Washington Saw 567 Square Miles Burned by Wildfires
Sep 22 2014 // Wildfires this summer in Washington have burned about 567 square miles. Last year wildfires burned about 156 square miles in the state. State Forester Aaron Everett said this year’s scorched acreage is about six...
Washington’s Puget Sound Jolted by Magnitude-4.0 Quake
Sep 18 2014 // A magnitude-4.0 earthquake rattled the Puget Sound in Washington state early Wednesday. The earthquake was centered near the town of Seabeck in Kitsap County, about 40 miles west of Seattle. The shaking was felt as far...
Washington Governor Asks Feds to Reconsider Aid for State’s Largest Wildfire
Sep 12 2014 // Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is asking the federal government to reconsider providing federal aid to people hurt by the state’s largest wildfire. Inslee said that more homes were destroyed or damaged than initially...
Washington Saw 567 Square Miles Burned by Wildfires
Sep 12 2014 // Wildfires this summer in Washington have burned about 567 square miles. Last year wildfires burned about 156 square miles in the state. State Forester Aaron Everett says this year’s scorched acreage is about six...
Communities at Risk in Wake of Failure to Address Rising Seas
Sep 8 2014 // Missions flown from the NASA base here have documented some of the most dramatic evidence of a warming planet over the past 20 years: the melting of polar ice, a force contributing to a global rise in ocean levels. The...
Hot Weather Takes Toll On Washington Wheat Crop
Sep 8 2014 // Too much heat and too little rain this summer are taking a toll on the winter wheat crop in Eastern Washington. Joel Zwainz in late August estimated that his family’s 3,400-acre farm near Reardan will produce 30 to...
