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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...
FIT Insurance in Washington Names Morales Personal Account Manager
Jan 23 2018 // Bellevue, Wash.-based FIT Insurance has named Cynthia Morales a personal account manager. Morales has more than five years of experience in the private client insurance industry. She comes to FIT from Pacific Northwest...
Washington Town on High Alert over Slow-Moving Landslide
Jan 17 2018 // A slow-moving landslide in central Washington state has forced evacuations as officials prepare for what they say is inevitable – the collapse of a ridge near an interstate highway. Washington is wary of landslides...
Green Bonds Booming Despite Washington’s Animus, Report Shows
Jan 11 2018 // In spite of the U.S. withdrawal from the global climate change accord hammered out in Paris a year earlier, green bond issuance around the world reached $155.5 billion in 2017, a new report shows. That figure surpassed the...
Washington Contractor Faces Manslaughter in Worker’s Trench Death
Jan 10 2018 // Criminal manslaughter charges have been filed against the owner of a Seattle, Wash.-area construction. The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office filed second-degree manslaughter charges against Phillip Numrich,...
2018 Insurance Industry Meetings & Events Directory
Jan 8 2018 // CIWA Industry Days Jan 8-10 Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines La Jolla, Calif. California Insurance Wholesalers Association (CIWA) Contact: Thomas Shovlin, thomas@ciwa.net The 19th Annual Windstorm Insurance Conference Jan...
PEMCO Insurance in Washington Names Bauer Senior Systems Manager
Jan 5 2018 // Seattle, Wash.-based PEMCO Insurance has named Sally Bauer senior systems manager for the digital services team. Bauer has nearly 30 years of experience in software engineering and insurance technology integration. Bauer...
NTSB: Speed Control Could Have Prevented Washington Amtrak Crash
Jan 5 2018 // The derailment of an Amtrak passenger train in Washington state last month that killed three people may have been prevented if a railway crash-avoidance technology mandated by Congress had been activated, according to the...
