Latest Washington Headlines
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Scientists Defining Cascadia Subduction Zone in Pacific Northwest
Sep 5 2013 // Scientists are just back from a monthlong research cruise in the Pacific Ocean off Washington state, where they were trying to find the stickiest point on a section of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, the huge undersea fault...
Dias Named Swett & Crawford Sales Leader in Washington
Sep 4 2013 // Frank Dias was made sales leader for Swett & Crawford’s Seattle, Wash. office. Dias will continue to serve as casualty broker in addition to his new role. Dias began his insurance career as a property underwriter...
Confie Seguros Acquires Olympic Insurance in Washington
Sep 4 2013 // Confie Seguros has acquired Olympic Insurance in Shelton, Wash., a provider of auto, home and small commercial insurance. Olympic Insurance was founded in 1997 and is a privately owned independent insurance agency serving...
Tough-to-Kill New York Buses Drive Through U.S. Law’s Loopholes
Sep 3 2013 // Outside New York’s Winter Garden Theatre, where “Mamma Mia” is nearing the end of a 13-year Broadway run, unwitting tourists board a bus bearing the name of a company U.S. regulators tried to close two...
USGS: 3 Small Washington Quakes No Cause For Concern
Aug 26 2013 // Geologists said three small earthquakes recorded in an area northwest of Mount St. Helens on Friday were part of a mini-swarm of quakes not directly related to the nearby volcano. The Columbian says that a U.S. Geological...
Washington Fines 4 Insurance Companies For Overcharging
Aug 22 2013 // Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler is fining four insurance companies for overcharging consumers in Washington state. Kreidler’s office said Tuesday that Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co., Hartford Casualty...
Stilt Houses in Greenwich, Conn., Foreshadow Impact of New Flood Maps
Aug 19 2013 // In the coastal areas of Greenwich, Connecticut, the latest housing craze requires hydraulic jacks, pylons and stilts. One home towers over its neighbors like a cruise ship. Others look like expensive tree...
Gun Ranges In Washington County Protected From Lawsuits
Aug 15 2013 // You can’t move near a shooting range in Pierce County, Wash. and then start complaining about the noise. The county council approved an ordinance Tuesday that protects gun ranges from lawsuits based on noise or...
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...
