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Washington Tornado Uprooted Trees, Sending Them into Homes
Oct 24 2019 // The National Weather Service confirmed a tornado touched down near Shelton, Wash. The tornado his on Friday night, with had winds up to 100 mph. The tornado started on land and traveled more than a half mile before moving...
County in Washington Files Lawsuit Against JUUL
Oct 21 2019 // A Washington state county has filed a lawsuit against e-cigarette maker JUUL after a dozen confirmed cases of vaping-related lung illness in the state. KOMO-TV reports that King County’s claim accuses JUUL and its...
Two Workers Hurt in Crash Between Washington D.C. Commuter Trains
Oct 11 2019 // Authorities in Washington, D.C., say two regional transit agency workers were hurt when one commuter train rear-ended another. WTOP-FM reports D.C. Fire and EMS tweeted that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit...
Washington Family to Get Insurance Benefits from Line-Of-Duty Death
Oct 8 2019 // A new Washington state law has helped allow the family of a firefighter who died in the line of duty to collect insurance benefits from his death. The Longview Daily News reported that the law recognizes PTSD as an...
College in Washington Fined $135K for Multiple Asbestos Violations
Oct 7 2019 // The Evergreen State College in Washington is facing more than $135,000 in fines for multiple violations related to asbestos and other safety issues around its Olympia campus. The Department of Labor & Industries has...
Earthquake Warning App Coming to Washington Next Year
Oct 4 2019 // Washington state officials have announced an earthquake warning phone application is expected to be available for download October 2020. KING-TV reports that the app ShakeAlert was designed to send people an alert on how...
Washington Joins Other States to Issue Flavored Vape Ban
Oct 3 2019 // Washington is joining several other states in banning the sale of flavored vaping products amid concern over the mysterious lung illness that has sickened hundreds of people and killed about a dozen across the...
College in Washington Fined $135K for Multiple Asbestos Violations
Sep 30 2019 // The Evergreen State College in Washington is facing more than $135,000 in fines for multiple violations related to asbestos and other safety issues around its Olympia campus. The Department of Labor & Industries has...
Insurers Balk at Study Questioning Value of Municipal Bond Insurance
Sep 27 2019 // Around noon one Wednesday in July, two school districts from California’s Central Valley auctioned off their bonds to Wall Street underwriters. Both had the same credit rating. The deals were of similar size. They...
Washington Dairy Bottling Plant Hit with $1.8M Fine for Safety Violations
Sep 24 2019 // A Battle Ground, Wash., dairy bottling and distribution operation has been hit with a large fine for multiple violations after a worker’s hand was crushed in the bottling plant. The Department of Labor &...
Washington Insurance Commissioner Orders Alaska Air Captive to Pay $2.5M
Sep 24 2019 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has hit another big corporation’s captive insurer with a fine. Kreidler has been going after captives for owed taxes by fining them since last year, when he issued...
California Now Looking for Ways to Preserve Environmental Clout
Sep 20 2019 // The Trump administration’s decision to stop California from setting its own emission standards for cars and trucks would undermine the state’s ability to convince the world’s largest automakers that they...
Drop in Workers’ Comp Rates in Washington Proposed for 3rd Straight Year
Sep 18 2019 // The price of workers’ compensation insurance in Washington would drop for the third year in a row under a proposal by the Washington Department of Labor & Industries. The L&I on Wednesday proposed a 0.8%...
Hub International Limited Acquires Assets of Virginia’s Washington Financial Group
Sep 17 2019 // Hub International Limited , a global insurance brokerage and financial services firm, has acquired the assets of Wash Financial L.L.C., doing business as Washington Financial Group (WFG). Terms of the transaction were not...
Victims of Washington Amtrak Derailment to Get $16.75M
Sep 16 2019 // A jury has awarded three plaintiffs injured in a 2017 Amtrak derailment outside DuPont, Wash. a total of $16.75 million in damages, Luvera Law Firm said in a statement. The plaintiffs, Dale Skyllingstad, Blaine Wilmotte...
Washington Company Penalized for Asbestos and Lead Safety Violations
Sep 3 2019 // A Bellingham, Wash.-based property management company has been cited by the Washington Department of Labor & Industries for multiple serious safety and health violations, most of which involve improper handling of...
World’s Safest Cities: Washington Rises, Hong Kong Falls
Aug 30 2019 // There’s a new surprise member of the world’s safest cities club. Washington, D.C. has entered the top 10 in the Safe Cities index for the first time, while Hong Kong is a noticeable no-show after plummeting...
CNA Names Decman Branch Manager in Washington and Oregon Branches
Aug 29 2019 // CNA has named Tanya Decman vice president and branch manager for the Seattle, Wash., and Portland, Ore., branches. Decman was previously assistant vice president of sales and distribution in the West. She was a marketing...
Washington Considers Overhaul of Cannabis Regulation 5 Years in
Aug 29 2019 // Five years after Washington launched its pioneering legal marijuana market, officials are proposing an overhaul of the state’s industry rules, with plans for boosting minority ownership of pot businesses, paving the...
Capital Names Elliott Central & Eastern Washington Development Manager
Aug 27 2019 // Capital Insurance Group has named Scott Elliott agency development manager for Central and Eastern Washington. He is based out of the Spokane, Wash., office. Elliott is responsible for strengthening agency relationships in...
