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CSX Oil Tank Cars Derail, Catch Fire in Lynchburg, Virginia
May 1 2014 // A CSX Corp. crude train derailed in Lynchburg, Virginia, Wednesday, sparking a fire in at least three tank cars, spilling oil into a river and forcing a partial evacuation of the city’s downtown. No injuries were...
Washington Commissioner Fines Producers More Than $24,000
Apr 30 2014 // Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler in March disciplined and issued fines totaling $24,250 against insurance companies, agents and brokers who violated state insurance regulations. Insurance companies Unitrin Auto and...
Safety Board Says Rail Oil Tanker Rules Should Be Put on Washington Fast Track
Apr 25 2014 // Spurred by a series of fiery train crashes, a push by government and industry to make safer tank cars used for shipping crude oil and ethanol has bogged down in squabbling and finger-pointing over whether they’re...
Democrats Seize on Koch Brothers, Republican Opposition to Flood Insurance
Apr 20 2014 // 17 Apr 2014 09:00 Democrats are exploring a new attack line against the Koch brothers and Republican allies, telling voters the billionaire energy executives want to let home flood insurance premiums soar to help corporate...
Independent Insurance Agents Find Some Pundits, Politicians in Washington Agree
Apr 16 2014 // News flash: a conservative and a liberal in Washington agree — on quite a few matters, in fact. Before an audience of independent insurance agents, commentators Tucker Carlson, a conservative, and Paul Begala, a liberal,...
Independent Insurance Agents Find Some Pundits, Politicians in Washington Agree
Apr 13 2014 // News flash: a conservative and a liberal in Washington agree — on quite a few matters, in fact. Before an audience of independent insurance agents last Friday, conservative commentator Tucker Carlson and liberal...
Crack In Washington Dam May Be From Water Pressure
Apr 13 2014 // Pressure from the water behind Wanapum Dam may have contributed to the big crack that has disrupted operations at the structure, the Grant County Public Utility District said. The cause of the crack remains unknown, but...
Washington Insurance Commissioner Fines Insurance Producers
Apr 10 2014 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler issued fines totaling $23,050 against insurance companies, agents and brokers who violated state insurance regulations. The disciplinary actions and fines were levied from...
Heavy Asbestos Fines for Hanford Contractors in Washington
Apr 8 2014 // Two contractors at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington will pay more than $175,000 in fines after an investigation found alleged asbestos violations. The Environmental Protection Agency says CH2M Hill Plateau...
Washington Governor Vetoes $1.5 Million Disaster Fund Cut
Apr 7 2014 // Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has vetoed a proposed cut of $1.5 million to Washington state’s disaster response fund. This decision was on a list of vetoes applied to the supplement state budget approved by lawmakers...
Washington LNG Blast Spotlights Natural Gas Safety
Apr 7 2014 // An unexplained blast this week at a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in rural Washington state, which injured workers, forced an evacuation and raised alarm about a potentially large second explosion, could focus...
Could Washington Landslide Lawsuits Win?
Apr 7 2014 // The warnings could hardly have been clearer. One technical report told of the “potential for a large catastrophic failure” of the 600-foot hillside above a rural neighborhood near Oso, on the Stillaguamish...
New York DFS Becoming ‘National Player’ Among Insurance, Banking Regulators
Apr 7 2014 // On a June morning in 2012, New York bank examiners paid surprise visits to the offices of Ocwen Financial Corp., the biggest non-bank mortgage servicer. That break with tradition — examiners typically set up...
Washington Mudslide Death Toll at 30
Apr 4 2014 // The number of confirmed deaths in the Washington state mudslide rose to 30 on Thursday with the release of two more victim names. The Snohomish County medical examiner’s office says 67-year-old Gloria Halstead and...
McGriff, Seibels & Williams to Acquire Caledonian in Washington
Apr 2 2014 // McGriff, Seibels & Williams Inc. has acquired Caledonian Insurance Group Inc. of Mercer Island, near Seattle, Wash. The deal was completed April 1. Terms were not disclosed. Caledonian specializes in insurance...
Hunt for Missing Flight MH370 ‘Bedeviled by Regional Rivalries’
Mar 31 2014 // The search for flight MH370, the Malaysian jetliner that vanished over the South China Sea on March 8, has involved more than two dozen countries and 60 aircraft and ships but been bedeviled by regional rivalries. While...
Life Insurers Flock to ‘Easy’ Iowa As More Federal Oversight Looms
Mar 28 2014 // After Symetra Financial Corp. was formed in 2004, the life insurer set up shop in a 25-story glass tower outside Seattle, put its name on the building and pushed the state to adopt more favorable rules for its...
Washington Mudslide Yields 2 More Bodies
Mar 26 2014 // Rescuers slogging through muck and rain Tuesday in an increasingly desperate search for survivors of a massive mudslide instead recovered two bodies and believe they have located another eight, Washington state officials...
For Safety Advocates, GM Recall Highlights Cuts in Government Investigations
Mar 26 2014 // The U.S. office responsible for monitoring safety defects in cars has had its budget stagnate and its staff cut by one-fifth from highs more than a decade ago, when Congress tried to strengthen it. While no one has...
Could ‘Missing Number 1321’ on Subsidies Derail Affordable Care Act?
Mar 25 2014 // If President Barack Obama’s signature health-care law unravels, it could be for want of a single number in crucial passages of the 2,409-page statute. The missing number, 1321, refers to a section of the Patient...
