Travelers Casualty Insurance Co. of America and several other major insurers defeated Covid-19 coverage challenges from hundreds of businesses, after a federal judge in Washington state found that the pandemic didn’t cause the physical property damage required for their policies to apply.
Former American Family and GEICO adjusters on Monday described their carriers as focused on cost and indifferent to safety in comments to Washington state lawmakers.
Seven train cars carrying crude oil derailed Tuesday and five caught fire, sending a large black plume of smoke into the sky north of Seattle close to the Canadian border, authorities said.
Toyota expanded a worldwide fuel pump recall to a total of 5.84 million vehicles for a defect that could cause the part to fail. In the United States, the total number of vehicles involved in this safety recall is now approximately 3.34 million vehicles.
Wildfires fueled by extreme heat and high wind spread further across California, Oregon and Washington on Thursday, destroying hundreds of homes and killing at least seven people.
Wildfires fanned by high winds burned hundreds of thousands of acres in the Northwest, mostly destroying a small town in eastern Washington state and causing evacuations, power outages and highway closures in Oregon.
Crews worked to put out a three-alarm fire that heavily damaged four buildings in Seattle’s north Beacon Hill neighborhood early Thursday. Seattle fire said the fire alarm center received a call about a fire at a new construction site at 5:42 a.m.
A peaceful protest in Seattle turned violent when some demonstrators vandalized government buildings and ransacked businesses, including an Amazon Go store and a Starbucks.
Think the risk of your home filling up with floodwater, magnified these days by climate change, is only an issue near the coasts and rivers? New research detailing nearly every corner of the U.S. shows otherwise.
A delivery driver who used his wife’s name to try to pull off one of the state’s largest workers’ compensation fraud cases has been ordered to pay back nearly $340,000.
Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) said Wednesday it is now recalling 3.2 million vehicles worldwide to address a fuel pump issue that could result in engines stalling.
Floodwaters in Oregon are receding on Monday after relentless rain and melting snow led to dozens of rescues over the weekend from weather that killed one woman who was swept away in raging waters.
