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Hurricane Sandy Forces Evacuations, Shutdowns on East Coast
Oct 28 2012 // Tens of millions of East Coast residents scrambled on Sunday to prepare for Hurricane Sandy, which could make landfall as the largest storm to hit the United States, bringing battering winds, flooding and even heavy...
Update: Hurricane Sandy Could Affect 50 Million People on East Coast
Oct 28 2012 // Authorities shut transit systems and ordered some evacuations as tens of millions of people on the East Coast braced on Sunday for Hurricane Sandy, a gigantic storm forecast to deliver battering winds, dangerous flooding...
Washington Commissioner Fines Insurer $500,000
Oct 23 2012 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler is fining Ohio-based BCS Insurance Co. $500,000 for issuing hundreds of thousands of policies using unapproved rates and policy language. BCS Insurance has agreed to pay the...
Lawsuit Over Fatal Washington Goat Attack Dismissed
Oct 18 2012 // A judge has dismissed a widow’s lawsuit against the federal government over her husband’s death in a mountain goat attack at Olympic National Park in Washington two years ago. U.S. District Judge Robert Bryan...
Washington Restaurant Involved in Salmonella Cases Reopens
Oct 17 2012 // A Vancouver, Wash., restaurant linked to several dozen cases of salmonella has reopened. Clark County public health officials gave On The Border the go-ahead to reopen Oct. 15 although they still don’t know the...
Fatal Washington Fire Started by Pinched Cord
Oct 16 2012 // The Seattle Fire Department says a fatal fire early Sunday was apparently caused by a pinched electrical cord in a bedroom. Firefighters found thick smoke coming from the apartment in the Greenwood neighborhood. The dead...
Consumers Learn High Cost of Being Poor in New Jersey
Oct 15 2012 // More than a decade ago, Joanne Jubert made six figures as an art director for a New York advertising agency. She pursued her passion of scuba diving. She joined film societies. She bought a modest home in upscale Little...
Uncertainty Marks Federal Regulation of Compounding Pharmacies
Oct 15 2012 // The deadly meningitis outbreak linked to contaminated pain injections has prompted calls for tighter federal regulation of compounding pharmacies, which have periodically been blamed for crippling and sometimes fatal...
Salmonella Outbreak Tied To Wash. Restaurant
Oct 12 2012 // A salmonella outbreak has led health officials to temporarily close a Vancouver, Wash., restaurant. Dr. Alan Melnick, the Clark County health officer, says there have been 11 confirmed and five probable cases linked to the...
Washington Jury Awards $1.4M to Family Of Molested Girl
Oct 2 2012 // A Washington jury has awarded $1.4 million to the family of a girl molested by a former Olympia School District bus driver. The Olympian reported that the jury found the school district negligent in not preventing abuse....
Penn. Commissioner: Washington Slow to Give Guidance on Healthcare Law
Sep 13 2012 // Testifying before Congress this week, Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Michael Consedine offered a blistering critique of the way the federal government is coordinating the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. In...
Washington Given $50,000 For Tsunami Debris Bags
Aug 31 2012 // The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has given the state of Washington $50,000 to help pay for trash bags and bins to collect debris washing ashore from the Japanese tsunami. The state Ecology Department...
‘Hole-in-Won’ Golf Tourney Insurer Charged With Not Paying Up
Aug 24 2012 // A Connecticut businessman who specializes in insurance for golf tournament hole-in-one prizes has been charged in Washington with multiple felonies after repeatedly failing to pay up. Kevin Kolenda, of Norwalk, Conn., was...
Wildfire Destroys 60 Homes in Washington
Aug 15 2012 // A wildfire between the northwest Washington towns of Cle Elum and Ellensburg at the eastern edge of the Cascade Mountains has prompted the evacuation of another 400 homes and Gov. Christine Gregoire to declare a state of...
Obama to Encourage States to Build Health Exchanges
Aug 14 2012 // The Obama administration this week will try to encourage reluctant U.S. states to move forward with health insurance exchanges amid fears that time is running out for states to act on a reform provision meant to extend...
Washington Explores Insurance, Other Protection for Futures Customers
Aug 10 2012 // U.S. regulators and futures industry players said on Thursday that there is no perfect solution to safeguard customer money in the wake of two major brokerage scandals, but added that policymakers should move quickly on...
Kriedler Wins Washington’s Commissioner Primary
Aug 8 2012 // Incumbent Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler won 55 percent of the vote counted Tuesday night to take the primary in his re-election bid for state insurance commissioner. The Democrat Kreidler, a former state...
Despite GOP Governors, Feds Building Health Insurance Exchanges
Aug 8 2012 // Don’t look now: The feds may be gaining on GOP governors who’ve balked at carrying out a key part of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law. Opponents of the law say they won’t set up new...
Wildfire Danger In Eastern Washington
Aug 7 2012 // The National Weather Service has issued a red flag warning for critical wildfire danger in Eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon and Northern Idaho. Dry lighting from scattered thunderstorms could ignite dry grass and shrubs....
Washington Announces New Rain Runoff Requirements
Aug 6 2012 // Washington state will begin requiring municipalities to use “rain gardens” and pervious pavement in new urban developments to combat rainwater pollution to the state’s rivers and lakes and to the Puget...
