Latest Washington Headlines
All the headlines from our Washington Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Insurers Say Latest CFA Study Is Flawed; Marketplace Is Highly Competitive
Jan 29 2013 // The new auto insurance pricing study from the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) is getting roundly criticized by insurance industry representatives. The representatives say that states’ auto insurance marketplaces...
Fraud Concerns Linger Over Illinois Driver License Law
Jan 29 2013 // As Illinois becomes the fourth and most populous U.S. state to issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, nagging concerns remain about whether there are enough safeguards to avoid the identity fraud and other...
People – West
Jan 28 2013 // San Diego, Calif.-based Barney & Barney LLC named four senior executives to principals of the firm in California. The new owners are: Dianne Wingfield and Todd Bennett, executives in the firm’s employee benefits...
Washington Senate Panel Considers Workers’ Compensation Bills
Jan 25 2013 // The GOP-led Washington state Senate Commerce and Labor Committee this week was scheduled to consider five bills intended to save businesses money by changing workers’ compensation rules. Proponents say the measures,...
A Future Without the Terrorism Insurance Backstop?
Jan 18 2013 // The federal backstop that is widely credited with establishing today’s robust terrorism insurance market may be gone in just 24 months. The consequences could be severe, from reduced availability of coverage to...
Judge Rules News Outlets’ Use of Photo on Twitter Violated Copyright
Jan 16 2013 // A U.S. judge has found that two news organizations improperly used images that a photojournalist had posted to Twitter in one of the first big tests of intellectual property law involving social media. Agence France-Presse...
Seattle Calculating, Preparing For Climate Change
Jan 15 2013 // Seattle officials predict that parts of Washington’s largest city will be under water as the shoreline creeps higher due to global climate change. City agencies are calculating the local effects of climate change and...
2013 Insurance Industry Meetings & Conventions Directory
Jan 14 2013 // JANUARY P/C Insurance Joint Industry Forum Jan 15 Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, NY Insurance Information Institute www.iii.org 2013 Big ‘I’ Winter Meeting Jan 16-20 The Westin Mission Hills Resort & Spa,...
Washington Company Suing Pro Sports Teams
Jan 7 2013 // A Spokane, Wash.-based company is suing several professional sports teams for breach of contract. Vizant Technologies LLC recently filed lawsuits in Spokane County Superior Court against teams including the Detroit Lions,...
Mississippi Governor, Insurance Chief At Odds Over Health Insurance Exchange
Jan 7 2013 // Mississippi’s proposed health insurance exchange is in limbo because of a dispute between the governor and the insurance commissioner. Gov. Phil Bryant and Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney, both Republicans,...
Four ‘Red’ States Get Health Exchange OK
Jan 7 2013 // Injecting a rare shot of bipartisanship in the nation’s contentious health care overhaul, the Obama administration Thursday cleared four Republican-led states to build their own consumer-friendly insurance...
Photo Now Part Of Washington Driver’s Breath Test
Dec 31 2012 // Drivers who are required to pass a breath test before they get behind the wheel won’t get away with having someone else blow in the ignition interlock device. Starting with the new year the devices will snap a...
Coast Guard: Large Dock Washes Ashore On Washington Coast
Dec 20 2012 // The Coast Guard on Tuesday spotted a large dock that has washed ashore in a remote section of Olympic National Park on the northwest Washington coast. Scientists are concerned it could be debris from the tsunami that...
Officials Tracking Debris off Washington Coast
Dec 19 2012 // Federal, state and tribal officials are attempting to track a large dock that was reported drifting off the coast of Washington state, one of potentially hundreds of objects that could wash up along the West Coast from the...
$1.1M Grant For Disaster Prep For Washington Schools
Dec 19 2012 // Washington education officials are using a $1.1 million federal grant to help schools prepare for natural disasters. The Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction is working with 35 school districts across the...
Washington To Pay $11 Million In Foster Home Abuse Case
Dec 14 2012 // The state of Washington will pay $11 million in a case filed by six people who claimed they were abused by their foster parents. The settlement, announced Tuesday, resolves a lawsuit against the Department of Social and...
Feds Approve Colorado, Oregon, Washington Insurance Exchanges
Dec 12 2012 // Colorado, Oregon and Washington are among the first six states to get preliminary approval from the Obama Administration to operate a health insurance exchange. The Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services announced the...
Washington Liquor Sales Still Up After Privatization
Dec 6 2012 // Sales of hard liquor increased in the four months after the state privatized liquor sales on June 1, compared with sales during the same four-month period a year ago, the Washington state Department of Revenue said...
Charge: Washington Couple Takes $223,000 In Workers Comp
Nov 26 2012 // A Tacoma, Wash. couple has been charged with falsely claiming workers compensation benefits and pocketing $223,000. The state Department of Labor & Industries says 63-year-old Jamie S. Beroth collected $100,664 in...
Tsunami Debris Reported Closer to Washington Coast
Nov 21 2012 // A Seattle oceanographer who has been tracking debris from the Japanese tsunami says a huge debris field, hundreds of miles across, is about 400 miles off the Washington coast. Retired University of Washington oceanographer...
