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Southwest Fatality First for a U.S. Airline in 9 Years
Apr 17 2018 // One passenger was killed when an engine blew out on a Southwest Airlines Co. jetliner carrying 149 people, marking the first fatality on a U.S.-registered airline in more than nine years. The plane, bound for Dallas from...
Family of Man Shot by Police Files Suit Against Washington City
Apr 17 2018 // The family of a Native American man fatally shot by police who mistook a cellphone for a gun has filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Lakewood, Wash. and police involved in the 2015 shooting. The Seattle Times...
Closing Quote: Legalized Marijuana Looks Like Bad News for Highway Safety
Apr 16 2018 // This past January, adults in California could line up for the first time to legally buy marijuana for personal, nonmedical use. That is when the nation’s largest state joined seven other states and Washington, D.C.,...
Washington Workers’ Radiation Exposure Halts Nuke Plant Demolition
Apr 12 2018 // Seven decades after making key portions of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation are being exposed to radiation as they tear down buildings that helped create the...
Washington Commissioner Fines GEICO $30K for Raising Premiums on People Who Froze Credit Scores
Apr 4 2018 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler issued fines in February totaling $49,200 against insurance companies, agents and brokers who violated state insurance regulations. The biggest fine was $30,000 against GEICO...
Asbestos Concerns Halt Restoration of Century-Old Washington Hotel
Mar 26 2018 // Restoration work on a century-old former hotel in eastern Washington has been halted after air quality inspectors say they found signs of asbestos. The Spokesman-Review reported that the state Department of Labor and...
Students Lead March for Stronger Gun Safety Laws
Mar 26 2018 // Thousands of high school students and supporters gathered in Washington and across the U.S. Saturday to demand tougher gun laws from an older generation that’s delivered little change after years of mass...
Legislation to Combat Online Sex Trafficking Clears Congress; Moves to President
Mar 22 2018 // Congress passed a bill to combat online sex trafficking that has split the tech industry, bringing one of the first measures to weaken legal protection for websites closer to becoming law as Big Tech faces a mounting...
Lemonade Enters Pennsylvania, Washington D.C. in National Expansion
Mar 22 2018 // Lemonade, the insurance company powered by artificial intelligence and behavioral economics, has launched in both Pennsylvania and Washington D.C. It announced the expansion on social media. These mark the sixth and...
Microsoft Internal Findings Say Gender Bias at Washington Tech Giant Rarely Founded
Mar 16 2018 // Microsoft Corp.’s investigators concluded that fewer than 1 percent of gender-discrimination complaints made internally were “founded,” according to data unsealed in an ongoing class-action lawsuit. The...
Female Firefighters In Washington Sue over Sex Harassment
Mar 14 2018 // Two women firefighters are suing Washington’s South Kitsap Fire and Rescue, alleging sexual harassment by a battalion chief who retired in January 2017 after he was notified of a proposal to fire him. The Kitsap Sun...
Stone Creek Insurance Agency Opens Washington Office, Adds Staff
Feb 28 2018 // Stone Creek Insurance Agency Inc. has opened a new office in the Paulsen building in downtown Spokane, Wash. and added several insurance professionals to staff the new location. Thomas Lynch has also been named vice...
PEMCO in Washington Names Simonson Learning and Development Manager
Feb 23 2018 // PEMCO Insurance in Washington has added Curt Simonson to the carrier’s people and brand team as the department’s learning and development manager. Simonson’s responsibilities include managing employee...
Damage Claim Filed in Washington Over Ex-Mayor Abuse Allegations
Feb 23 2018 // The former foster son of ex-Seattle Mayor Ed Murray has filed a claim for damages against the city, saying that last year it negligently failed to investigate his and other men’s allegations that Murray sexually...
Washington Wheat Farmers Oppose Proposed Trump Budget Cuts to Crop Insurance
Feb 20 2018 // Washington state wheat farmers are protesting cuts to their safety net programs in a budget proposal released by President Donald Trump this week. The Spokesman-Review review reports growers are concerned about...
Trump’s FTC Appointee Eyes Task Force to Investigate Drug Prices
Feb 16 2018 // President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Federal Trade Commission said he’s “very concerned” about price increases for prescription drugs and will explore forming a task force to monitor whether...
Amtrak Engineer Ordered to Stand Trial in Philadelphia Crash
Feb 9 2018 // Amtrak engineer Brandon Bostian sat stunned Tuesday as a judge reinstated twice-rejected criminal charges and ordered him to stand trial for a deadly 2015 train wreck in Philadelphia. Judge Kathryn S. Lewis ruled that...
Climate Change and the ‘Fire Insurance Predicament’
Feb 8 2018 // A Washington-based conservative group is suing for information on the U.S. government’s “backstage work” on the Paris agreement it says will help pave the way for President Trump’s withdrawal from...
Opioid Makers Sued by Another Washington County
Feb 2 2018 // Clallam County in Washington is joining more than 200 other litigants in suing opioid makers and wholesale distributors for damages over prescription opioids. The Peninsula Daily News reports county commissioners are...
Engineer in Fatal Washington Train Crash Didn’t Know Curve Was Ahead
Jan 26 2018 // The engineer controlling an Amtrak train that derailed in Washington state in December, killing three people, told investigators he didn’t realize he was coming up on a curve until it was too late. The National...
