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Washington Man Gets $1,103 Speeding Ticket in Oregon
May 8 2013 // A Washington state man has a hefty speeding ticket to pay after getting clocked at 130 mph on his new motorcycle in central Oregon. Sixty-one-year-old Gregory Zaser, of the wealthy Lake Washington enclave of Medina, east...
Jail For Washington Man Faking Work Injuries For Drugs
May 7 2013 // A Washington man thought he found the perfect way to get prescription narcotics – go to a hospital claiming to be in pain due to a work related injury. But, an investigation by Washington’s Department of Labor...
$3.45M Award In Death Of Washington Ship Worker
Apr 26 2013 // Federal jurors in Seattle have awarded $3.45 million to the estate and survivors of a woman who drowned in 2010 while working on a ship conversion. The Seattle Times reported the jurors found the ship’s owner, G...
EU Supports French Demand; Trade Talks with U.S. Should not Cover Culture
Apr 26 2013 // European Union lawmakers have backed French demands to exempt culture from a proposed free-trade pact between Europe and the United States, keeping Paris on side and raising the chances that the talks can start on...
Washington Governor Announces Bill To Address Drunken Driving
Apr 18 2013 // Gov. Jay Inslee and a bipartisan group of lawmakers unveiled a plan that would make changes to the state’s impaired driving laws, including requiring an arrest on the first offense and mandatory jail time if...
American Modern Enhances Yacht Program in California, Washington
Apr 18 2013 // American Modern Insurance Group, a national specialty insurance carrier, has enhanced its yacht program in California and Washington, expanding coverage features in the base policy, repositioning endorsements as a way to...
Report: U.S. Making Progress Against ‘Too-Big-to-Fail’ Bailouts
Apr 15 2013 // For the past year, a special team of U.S. bank regulators has been on a quiet mission to end the belief on Wall Street that large banks are “too big to fail.” The team from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp....
Gun Liability Insurance Measures Facing Uphill Battle in State Legislatures
Apr 12 2013 // While lawmakers in most states have introduced measures in their current legislative sessions that address gun control and gun liability issues, their approaches vary widely, largely depending on the area of the country in...
Washington State Lawmakers Consider Tougher DUI Laws
Apr 11 2013 // Lawmakers are considering tightening up the state’s laws against driving under the influence after two recent cases that left three dead and two, including an infant, critically injured. Rep. Roger Goodman held a...
Washington Jury Awards $26M Over Plane Crash Deaths
Apr 10 2013 // A jury has awarded $26 million to the families of three people killed when a small plane crashed near Arlington, Wash. in 2008. The single-engine Cessna went down en route from San Juan Island to Auburn when its engine...
Gun Liability Insurance Bills Aren’t the Answer, Says Insurance Industry
Apr 10 2013 // Congress appears ready to take up gun control legislation for the first time in years, with proposals under consideration focusing on background checks, straw purchases and money for school safety. If the debate stays on...
Washington Weighs Compensation for Wrongful Convictions
Apr 9 2013 // Alan Northrop anxiously waits outside a Senate committee hearing, his girlfriend rubbing his shoulders and whispering words of support as he prepares to sign in to testify about nearly two decades of freedom...
Alabama Governor Says State Will Not Enforce Federal Health Law’s Protections
Apr 8 2013 // Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has rejected another provision of the federal health care overhaul pushed by President Barack Obama, saying Alabama insurance regulators won’t enforce parts of the law aimed at protecting...
Relatives Of Washington Woman Shot By Mistake File Suit
Apr 3 2013 // Relatives of a 20-year-old Tacoma, Wash., woman fatally shot by gang members in a case of mistaken identity are suing the state Corrections Department, saying it failed to supervise the felons charged in the case. The News...
Washington Insurance Commissioner Recovering From Heart Surgery
Apr 2 2013 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler, the nation’s longest serving insurance commissioner, is recovering after successful heart surgery performed Monday at Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia. The...
Washington Couple Must Pay $224,000 For Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 1 2013 // A Washington couple received jail time and will have to reimburse the state more than $200,000 after they reportedly both filed fraudulent workers’ compensation claims in 2009. Jaime Beroth, 63, and her husband...
Washington Island Slide Victims Still Cut Off
Apr 1 2013 // Crews on Monday expect to finish cutting an emergency access road down to homes cut off by a massive mudslide last week on Whidbey Island in Washington. Initial evacuations were ordered on 35 homes after Wednesday’s...
Washington Woman Awarded $813,000 in Medical Suit
Apr 1 2013 // A Spokane jury awarded $813,000 this week to a woman whose foot was amputated following the wrong diagnosis by her physician. It was the second time a jury heard Darlene Turner’s medical malpractice suit against...
Washington Weighs First Abortion Insurance Mandate In US
Mar 25 2013 // In 1970, Washington became the first – and remains the only – state in the country to legalize elective abortions by a popular vote. A generation later, and 40 years removed from the landmark United States Supreme...
PCI Slams Oregon Bad Faith Proposals
Mar 22 2013 // A handful of bills proposed in Oregon could hit consumers with nearly $200 million in cost increases and yield a rash of lawsuits, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, which is urging Oregon...
