Latest Washington Headlines
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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...
Kreidler’s 4th Term in Washington: Healthcare, Climate Change, Excess Surpluses
Nov 19 2012 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler won nearly six in 10 votes in his re-election bid, giving him bragging rights as the U.S.’ longest currently serving insurance commissioner. Kreidler won 57.7 percent...
IMF Urges Permanent Fix to U.S. ‘Fiscal Cliff’
Nov 9 2012 // The International Monetary Fund on Thursday urged the United States to quickly reach an agreement on a permanent fix to avoid automatic tax hikes and spending cuts early next year, saying a stop-gap solution could be...
Kreidler’s 4th Term in Washington: Healthcare, Climate Change, Excess Surpluses
Nov 8 2012 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler won nearly six in 10 votes in his re-election bid, giving him bragging rights as the U.S.’s longest currently serving insurance commissioner. Kreidler won 57.7 percent...
State Elections Wrapup: Some Partisan Realignment; 5 Incumbent Insurance Chiefs Win
Nov 8 2012 // Neil Alldredge has been searching for the unifying “theme” in the results of Nov. 6 state elections around the country but he says it has not been easy to identify one. As senior vice president for state and...
Washington’s Kreidler Wins Fourth Term
Nov 7 2012 // Incumbent Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler won 57.7 percent of the vote in his re-election bid for state insurance commissioner, giving him bragging rights as the U.S.’s longest currently serving...
IDP Holdings Acquires NSU’s Hospitality Program in Washington
Nov 6 2012 // IDP Holdings LLC acquired the hospitality business of National Specialty Underwriters Inc., a Bellevue, Wash.-based specialty commercial insurance program manager. As part of the transaction, IDP also purchased NSU’s...
State Elections to Decide Insurance Commissioner, Ballot Initiatives, Court Contests
Nov 5 2012 // For the insurance industry, there is more at stake in the Nov. 6 election than who goes to or stays in the White House and Congress. The insurance industry will be watching who wins the gubernatorial races in 11 states,...
Lawsuit Over Fatal Washington Goat Attack Dismissed
Nov 5 2012 // A judge has dismissed a widow’s lawsuit against the federal government over her husband’s death in a mountain goat attack at Olympic National Park in Washington two years ago. U.S. District Judge Robert Bryan...
Palmer Joins Griffin Underwriting Services in Washington
Nov 2 2012 // Griffin Underwriting Services named Merry Palmer a program broker. In this new position, Palmer will be responsible for program brokerage production and marketing as well as bringing depth and focus to Griffin’s...
New York, New Jersey Want Washington to Pay More Storm Costs
Nov 1 2012 // New York state on Wednesday asked the U.S. federal government to pay all the costs of cleaning up and repairing damage from massive storm Sandy that tore through the Northeast this week and crippled New York City. Governor...
Lawsuit Over Fatal Washington Ice Cave Collapse Dismissed
Oct 30 2012 // A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit over a Washington state ice cave collapse that killed an 11-year-old girl in 2010. Grace Tam was killed as she posed for a picture the Big Four Ice Caves in the Mount...
Hurricane Sandy Expected Ashore Monday Night; Could Be Biggest to Hit U.S. Mainland
Oct 29 2012 // • Hurricane expected ashore Monday evening in New Jersey • Could be biggest to hit U.S. mainland • New York, Philadelphia and Washington in its path • New York Stock Exchange closed Monday and Tuesday • Early...
BP Oil Spill Settlement Unlikely Before Election
Oct 29 2012 // For a president locked in a tough re-election fight, it may look like political gold: a settlement between the U.S. Justice Department and BP Plc over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that could send billions of dollars to...
