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Justices: Washington Cities Can Be Liable In DUI Crash
Aug 12 2013 // Washington’s Supreme Court says cities, counties and utility companies can be liable when faulty road design leads to injuries in car crashes – even when the driver is drunk. In an 8-1 ruling on Thursday, the...
Washington Nationals Sue Crime Insurer Over Player’s Lie About Age
Aug 7 2013 // Major League Baseball’s Washington Nationals sued an insurance company for $1 million for declining to provide crime insurance coverage for an alleged fraud scheme involving a team executive linked to the signing of...
$35M Award to 29 Washington Patients for Root Canals
Aug 5 2013 // More than two dozen Washington patients of a former Seattle-area dentist accused of performing hundreds of unnecessary root canals have been awarded $35 million in an arbitration proceeding. Former King County Superior...
Washington Supreme Court: Insurers Liable for Illegal Acts by Agents
Aug 2 2013 // Washington’s State Supreme Court has affirmed that insurers are liable for illegal actions committed by their agents, a decision that will enable the state’s insurance commissioner to continue to go after bad...
Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Dodd-Frank by 11 States and Texas Bank
Aug 1 2013 // A lawsuit by 11 states and a Texas bank challenging the Dodd-Frank law’s financial regulation overhaul was dismissed by a federal judge. U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle in Washington Thursday ruled that the...
Oklahoma Town Fears Fires Costing City Its History
Jul 30 2013 // Seminole, Okla., has suffered through eight fires in three years, causing some to fear that the community is losing its history. Since 2010, the town has lost its old Booker T. Washington School, the school’s...
Estate of Drowned Washington Teen Files Oregon Lawsuit
Jul 26 2013 // The estate of a drowned Vancouver, Wash., teen has sued the organizers of a summer camp in Oregon, saying they endangered the boy. The lawsuit filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court in Portland seeks $13 million. The...
True-Crime Writer Ann Rule Sues Washington Newspaper
Jul 25 2013 // True-crime author Ann Rule is suing a weekly Seattle newspaper, saying she was defamed in 2011 when the fiance of a convicted killer wrote a lengthy article accusing her of “sloppy storytelling.” The lawsuit,...
Lance Armstrong Seeks Dismissal of False Claims Lawsuit
Jul 24 2013 // Lance Armstrong, the former champion cyclist, asked a judge to throw out a lawsuit claiming he defrauded the U.S. by using banned substances in violation of his team’s contract with the U.S. Postal...
The Ever-Evolving Cyber Laws
Jul 22 2013 // There is a wide array of state, federal, and international laws requiring individuals and entities that gather, use and secure “personal” or “protected” information to report, and/or...
$35M Award To 29 Washington Patients For Root Canals
Jul 19 2013 // More than two dozen Washington patients of a former Seattle-area dentist accused of performing hundreds of unnecessary root canals have been awarded $35 million in an arbitration proceeding. Former King County Superior...
Estimated $13 Million Loss In Washington Apartment Fire
Jul 17 2013 // The three-alarm fire in Pullman, Wash. destroyed four apartment buildings and a club house that would have been worth about $13 million when completed this summer. The Moscow-Pullman Daily News reported the fire early...
U.S., China Agree to Restart Investment Treaty Talks
Jul 17 2013 // The United States and China have agreed to restart stalled negotiations on an investment treaty, with Beijing dropping previous efforts to protect certain sectors of its economy from the start. The agreement to resume...
Greenberg Lawyers Say Bernanke Testimony Key to Suit Over AIG Bailout
Jul 17 2013 // U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke should be required to testify in Maurice “Hank” Greenberg’s lawsuit over the bailout of American International Group Inc., Greenberg’s lawyers...
University of Washington to Pay $15M After Medical Mistake
Jul 16 2013 // The University of Washington will pay $15.2 million in a medical malpractice judgment after a mistake caused a debilitating brain damage to a girl in 2008. The sum ordered a King County judge is one of the largest medical...
U.S. EU Launch Free Trade Talks Despite Spying Concerns
Jul 9 2013 // The United States and the European Union began talks on Monday on a landmark bilateral free trade agreement, despite European concerns about U.S. spying that had threatened to delay the start after nearly two years of...
Employers Welcome Delay in Obamacare Mandate; Workers, States Concerned
Jul 8 2013 // While businesses hailed President Barack Obama’s decision to delay penalizing companies that fail to offer benefits under the health law, workers and states may struggle with the uncertain aftermath. In postponing...
Liberty Mutual Names VP of Federal Affairs in Washington, D.C.
Jul 1 2013 // Liberty Mutual Insurance recently announced S. Colin Dowling will lead the company’s public affairs office in Washington, D.C., as vice president for federal affairs. Dowling brings extensive public affairs...
Likely Recall Washington Area Mayor Who Jeopardized City’s Insurance
Jun 27 2013 // Votes counted from Tuesday’s special election show that Cy Sun, a Washington area mayor, will be recalled on July 9 when the election is certified, likely removing from office a man who many blamed for endangering...
Greenberg’s $25B Suit Against Government Over AIG Bailout Can Proceed
Jun 27 2013 // Maurice “Hank” Greenberg can continue his $25 billion lawsuit against the U.S. over losses from the bailout of his former company, American International Group Inc., without making claims on behalf of the...
