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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...
Ames & Gough Appoints Witherow as an Assistant Vice President in Washington D.C.
Aug 27 2019 // Ames & Gough, an insurance broker and risk management consultant specializing in serving design professionals, law firms, associations/nonprofits and other professional service organizations, has appointed Jessie...
45 Mississippi Counties Declared Primary Agriculture Disaster Areas Due to Weather
Aug 23 2019 // U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has named 45 Mississippi counties primary natural disaster areas because of freezing, flooding, flash flooding and excessive rain. Producers who had losses from those causes since...
Do Cannabis or Alcohol Taxes Have Higher Upside for Society?
Aug 22 2019 // Which helps society more? Alcohol or cannabis. That sounds like a funny question, but it may be an important one with more local governments embracing the opportunity to bring in tax revenue from cannabis sales. A new...
Pacific Northwest Earthquake-Warning System Gets Funding Boost
Aug 21 2019 // The U.S. Geological Survey is greatly increasing funding for the region’s seismic network, putting it on track to send public alerts of impending earthquake shaking within the next two years. The Seattle Times...
Blank Rome Hires Michael to Insurance Recovery Group in Washington D.C.
Aug 20 2019 // Blank Rome LLP has announced that Partner Helen K. Michael has joined the firm’s Insurance Recovery group based in its Washington, D.C., office. Michael joins from Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, where she...
West Bend Mutual Insurance Promotes Dunn, Ertmer, Jacques, Schwalen and Tighe
Aug 20 2019 // West Bend Mutual Insurance Co. in West Bend, Wisconsin, has promoted five company executives. Heather Dunn is now senior vice president, as well as chief financial officer, a position she’s held since 2017. Dunn...
Women Accuse Opera Star Domingo of Sexual Harassment Over Decades
Aug 16 2019 // For decades, Placido Domingo, one of the most celebrated and powerful men in opera, has tried to pressure women into sexual relationships by dangling jobs and then sometimes punishing the women professionally when they...
Female Customers Sue Lyft Alleging Sexual Assaults by Drivers
Aug 13 2019 // Lyft Inc.’s image as the “woke” ride-hailing company faces a new challenge from a rash of lawsuits filed by women who claim they were sexually assaulted by drivers summoned to take them home after...
6 Washington Patrol Troopers Sue Ford Over Carbon Monoxide
Aug 12 2019 // Six Washington State Patrol troopers have filed a class-action lawsuit against Ford Motor Company saying their patrol vehicles gave them carbon monoxide poisoning. KOIN reported the lawsuit, filed last week in Clark County...
U.S. Northwest Faces Growing Wildfire Threat
Aug 6 2019 // Nestled in the foothills of Washington’s Cascade Mountains, the bustling Seattle suburb of Issaquah seems an unlikely candidate for anxiety over wildfires. The region, famous for its rainfall, has long escaped major...
Suspected Gas Explosion in Pennsylvania Reduces Home to Rubble; Five Injured
Aug 5 2019 // An explosion believed to have been caused by a gas leak reduced a western Pennsylvania home to a pile of rubble and injured five people. The blast just before 4 p.m. Wednesday near a high school in North Franklin Township...
Regulator Says U.S. Railroads Still Have Work to Do Installing Key Safety Technology
Aug 2 2019 // The railroad industry has installed safety technology on nearly 90% of tracks where it is required, federal officials said Wednesday, but “significant work” is needed to ensure the technology is completely...
Sun Valley Climate Conference’s Broad Agenda: Wildfires, Military, Insurance, Resilience
Aug 1 2019 // Washington had a record 1,850 responses to wildfires on Department of Natural Resources lands last year. Over the last five years, wildfires have continued to hit the state hard. One state official, who believes climate...
Kentucky Teen’s $250M Defamation Suit Against Washington Post Dismissed
Jul 31 2019 // A federal judge has thrown out a Kentucky teen’s lawsuit accusing the Washington Post of falsely labeling him a racist following an encounter with a Native American man at the Lincoln Memorial. Nicholas Sandmann, a...
