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Heffernan Acquires Contractors Insurance NW in Washington
May 5 2020 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers has acquired Contractors Insurance NW in Olympia, Wash. Heffernan purchased the assets of CINW to join HeffDirect, a division of Heffernan Insurance Brokers CINW offers commercial insurance for...
Washington Extends Emergency Order Waiving Deductibles And Copays for Coronavirus Tests
May 1 2020 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler extended his emergency order to Washington health insurers for 30 days, requiring them to waive copays and deductibles for any consumer requiring testing for...
Washington Extends Deadline for Claims with Building Repairs
Apr 30 2020 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler on Thursday filed an emergency order that requires insurers to extend deadlines relating to withheld depreciation for policyholders who are in the process of completing home...
Recovered from COVID-19, Wary First Responders Back on Job
Apr 29 2020 // The new coronavirus doesn’t care about a blue uniform or a shiny badge. Police, firefighters, paramedics and corrections officers are just a 911 call away from contracting COVID-19 and spreading it. With N95 masks...
$3M Claim in Washington Against Shipper for Damage to Marina and Boats
Apr 27 2020 // The Port of Kalama in Washington has filed a claim against the owners and operators of a container ship it believes is responsible for damaging the marina and boats when it passed by at an excessive speed earlier this...
Washington State Officer Files $10M Claim in Wrongful Termination
Apr 27 2020 // A former sheriff’s department security officer in Washington state entered negotiations with county officials over a $10 million wrongful termination claim. Eric Salverda worked in the Yakima County Sheriff’s...
Georgia Gambles on Reopening Business Amid Pandemic
Apr 23 2020 // A handful of mostly southern U.S. states will begin loosening economic restrictions this week in the midst of a still virulent pandemic, providing a live-fire test of whether America’s communities can start to reopen...
Lawsuit Seeking Greater Protections for Washington Farmworkers
Apr 20 2020 // Advocates for farm workers in Washington state have filed a lawsuit against the state seeking safer working conditions as the harvest season begins amid a coronavirus pandemic. Thousands of workers are already pruning...
Washington Commissioner Says Most Business Insurance Policies Exclude Pandemic, Virus Coverage
Apr 17 2020 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler polled Washington state insurers to get a thorough picture of business interruption insurance and found that only two insurers offer coverage for a pandemic event through...
Washington Attorney General Sues Facebook Over Campaign Ads
Apr 16 2020 // Washington state is suing Facebook – again – for selling political ads without disclosing all necessary information about who’s behind them. Attorney General Bob Ferguson first sued Facebook over the issue in...
Washington Nursing Home Sued Over Coronavirus Death
Apr 13 2020 // The daughter of a woman who died of a suspected coronavirus case at a Seattle-area nursing home connected to dozens of COVID-19 deaths is suing the company that owns the Life Care Center of Kirkland. The Life Care Center...
‘Uncertainty Is the Only Certainty’ When it Comes to Pandemic Modeling
Apr 8 2020 // A statistical model cited by the White House generated a slightly less grim figure Monday for a first wave of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. – a projection designed to help officials plan for the...
States Need Data on Medical Workers’ Coronavirus Status
Apr 7 2020 // Experts and health officials who are trying to plan a response to the coronavirus outbreak are missing a critical piece of information — the number of health care workers who have tested positive for the...
Washington Dentist Arrested, Charged with Arson After Office Fire
Apr 3 2020 // A Bellevue, Washington, dentist was accused of using lighter fluid and accelerant to set fires in his exam and X-ray rooms after being evicted from his office for failing to pay rent, King County prosecutors said. Mohammad...
Washington Governor Signs Facial Recognition Law Curbing Use
Apr 1 2020 // Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has signed the first U.S. state law that sharply curbs law enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology, while civil rights activists said the measure did not go far enough to protect...
Washington State Asks Insurers to Extend Coverage to Delivery Drivers
Mar 27 2020 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler is asking insurers doing business in the state to immediately extend automobile insurance coverage for personal delivery drivers to aid people temporarily assigned this duty...
Coronavirus Impact on Workers’ Compensation Limited But Some Workers May Be Covered
Mar 23 2020 // The outbreak of coronavirus has already resulted in some workers’ compensation claims and more are expected. But whether those claims are going to succeed depends on the individual circumstances and the state where...
Virus Impact on Workers’ Compensation Limited But Some Workers May Be Covered
Mar 17 2020 // The outbreak of coronavirus has already resulted in some workers’ compensation claims and more are expected. But whether those claims are going to succeed depends on the individual circumstances and the state where...
Meetings Update: Target Markets Mid-Year Called Off; RIMS Cancels Conference
Mar 16 2020 // The Target Market Program Administrators Association has become the latest insurance organization to cancel a meeting. TMPAA Executive Director Ray Scotto announced that the 2020 TMPAA Mid-Year Meeting planned for Tampa on...
Meetings Update: RIMS Cancels 2020 Annual Conference; IICF Postpones Events
Mar 14 2020 // For the first time in the Risk and Insurance Management Society’s 70-year history, it is not going to have its annual conference. The RIMS 2020 Annual Conference & Exhibition scheduled for May 6 in Denver has...
