The American Property Casualty Insurance Association is suing to halt emergency regulations recently filed by Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler to ban the use of credit-based insurance scores in the rating and underwriting of insurance. A petition for declaratory and …
Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler is urging the insurance industry in his state to work with Native Americans on adopting policies of consent on environmental projects that affect Tribal nations. According to Kreidler, policies that he’s endorsing would help strengthen …
An order to ban insurers to use credit scores from Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler is getting praise as well as drawing fire. Kreidler recently issued an emergency order prohibiting insurers from using a consumer’s credit score to price auto, …
Former Washington attorney Patrick Kim was charged in King County Superior Court with three counts of first-degree theft and 10 counts of second-degree theft, all felonies, involving clients’ insurance settlements. Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler’s Criminal Investigations Unit investigated the …
A Washington bill to ban insurers from using consumers’ credit scores to determine auto and homeowner insurance premiums was gutted by an insurance industry amendment in the Senate Business, Financial Services & Trade Committee on Feb. 15. Senate Bill 5010, …
Editor’s note: This article has been updated to remove life insurance from the list of lines of insurance that the bill covered. That language was removed from earlier versions of the bill, and no longer applies. Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike …
An administrative law judge upheld Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler’s fine and cease-and-desist order against Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network Inc., for illegally acting as an insurer in the state. Kreidler in March ordered Armed Citizens to stop acting as …
Jaskaran Singh Gill, of Tukwila, Wash., was charged in King County Superior Court in Washington with two counts of first-degree theft, one count of second-degree theft and four counts of filing a false insurance claim after an investigation by Insurance …
Incumbent Mike Kreidler was leading Republican challenger Chirayu Patel in the race for Washington insurance commissioner as vote counting continued on Wednesday. Kreidler, who’s seeking a sixth term in office, had 67% of the vote and Patel had 32% of …
“The insurance buying public wants to know that insurance is going to be available and affordable to them when they need it.” That was the take-home message from Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler, who hosted a half-day virtual summit on …
