Latest Washington Headlines
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Washington Judge Shoots Down Insurance Commissioner’s Credit Scoring Ban
Oct 11 2021 // A judge in Washington ruled in favor of the insurance industry’s argument against Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler’s emergency rule temporarily banning use of credit scoring. Kreidler’s...
Washington Man Sues Claiming Officers Raided Wrong Address
Oct 5 2021 // A Lynnwood, Wash., man is suing after police raided his apartment and later determined they had the wrong address. Juan Alberto Castaneda Miranda said agents burst into his apartment in 2018, according to a pair of...
Woman’s Washington Suit Claims Bus Drove Over Her Leg, Resulting in Amputation
Sep 30 2021 // A woman has filed a lawsuit against King County Metro in Washington claiming a bus driver ran over her leg while she was laying on a Renton sidewalk and then drove away. Jessica Chapel’s injuries were so severe that...
Greyhound Settles Washington Suit Over Immigration Sweeps on Buses
Sep 29 2021 // Greyhound Lines Inc. will pay $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit over the bus line’s practice of allowing U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents to board its buses in Washington state to conduct warrantless...
Jury Says Washington City Must Pay $3.26M to Men Shot by Police
Sep 29 2021 // A federal jury has awarded two men who live south of Tacoma, Wash., a total of $3.26 million for injuries suffered when they were shot by one of the town of Roy’s two police officers during a drunken joy ride in a...
Washington Collectibles Shop Owner Pleads Guilty to Setting Fire for Insurance
Sep 29 2021 // An Edmonds, Washington woman has pleaded guilty to wire fraud related to the 2018 fire at her business that prosecutors said she set in order to collect insurance money. Connie Bigelow, 53, admitted in the plea agreement...
Washington Business Owner Repays $43K for Bogus Worker’s Comp Interpretation Bills
Sep 23 2021 // A Seattle, Wash. woman accused of forging signatures and stealing money by billing the state for appointments, some related to workers’ compensation services, that never happened pleaded guilty Wednesday. Carla C....
Washington Suit Settled for $250K over Abuse
Sep 23 2021 // A man who accused Seattle police officers of physical abuse after they entered his home two years ago during a welfare check has reached a $250,000 settlement with the city. Under the settlement, the city didn’t...
Washington Proposes 3.1% Increase in Workers’ Comp Rates for 2022
Sep 21 2021 // The Washington Department of Labor & Industries is proposing an increase in the average price employers and workers pay for workers’ compensation insurance next year. If the proposal is adopted, it would be the...
Washington Commissioner Fines Aetna for Discriminating Against Transgender Women
Sep 21 2021 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler this month fined Aetna Life Insurance Co. $25,000 for discriminating against policyholders who sought gender-affirming medical treatment. In June 2019, a Washington consumer...
Family Files Lawsuit in Police Restraint Death in Washington
Sep 20 2021 // The family of Manuel Ellis, a Black man who died while being restrained by Tacoma police officers who have since been charged criminally, has filed a federal lawsuit over his death. Attorneys for Ellis’ sister, Monet...
Termination Lawsuit in Washington County Settles for $1.4M
Sep 17 2021 // The Clark County Council in Washington has agreed to pay Don Benton and two other former county employees $1.4 million less than four months after a jury awarded the trio $693,998 in a wrongful termination lawsuit. The...
Washington Troopers, Workers File Suit over Vaccine Mandate
Sep 15 2021 // Washington state troopers, prison correctional officers, ferry workers and other public sector employees have filed a lawsuit to try to overturn Gov. Jay Inslee’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The Northwest News Network...
Washington Juvenile Facility Sex Abuse Suit Settled for $2.1M
Sep 13 2021 // The state of Washington has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by 10 people who said they were sexually abused at a juvenile rehabilitation facility when they were teenagers. One of the plaintiffs lives in Pierce County,...
Alera Group in Illinois Merges with Propel in Washington
Sep 9 2021 // Deerfield, Ill.-based Alera Group Inc. signed a definitive agreement to merge with Propel Insurance Agency headquartered in Tacoma, Wash. Propel’s property/casualty capabilities are expected to bolster Alera...
Alliant Acquires Biggs Insurance Services in Washington
Sep 2 2021 // Alliant Insurance Services acquired Vancouver, Wash.-based Biggs Insurance Services. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Biggs and its team of nearly 60 insurance professionals will join Alliant and will continue...
$6M Settlement in Washington for Child Abused by Bowling Coach
Sep 1 2021 // Attorneys say they have reached a $6 million settlement over the sexual abuse of a child by his Seattle, Wash.-area bowling instructor. The boy was abused from 2012 to 2017, beginning when he was 12. The coach, Ty...
Insurers Settle Washington Boys Home Sex Abuse Case for $9M
Aug 31 2021 // Insurance companies have settled another sexual abuse lawsuit brought against Kiwanis International, this time for $9 million in a case involving seven men who were sexually abused at a Centralia, Washington, group home...
Parents File Suit for Children Injured on Washington Tilt-A-Whirl Ride
Aug 31 2021 // The families of children who were injured on the Tilt-A-Whirl at the Kitsap County Fair in Washington in 2018 are suing the owner of the amusement company that operated the ride at the fair’s carnival and its...
Washington Man Who Faked Job Injury Pleads Guilty in Workers’ Comp Scam
Aug 24 2021 // A Thurston County, Wash., man who reportedly tried to pass off a barroom brawl injury as a workplace accident has pleaded guilty to stealing state workers’ compensation insurance benefits. Chuck Wayne Riccio, 40, of...
