Other LanguagesClaim forms for one-time payments sent to thousands of state borrowers
SEATTLE – Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna today announced that claim forms are going out to approximately 34,000 Washington state borrowers who lost their home to foreclosure.
SEATTLE — The Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) presented Tacoma attorney David W.
Huey with the 2012 Angelo Petruss Award for Lawyers in Public Service. Named in honor of the late
Angelo R. Petruss, a senior assistant attorney general who passed away during his term of service on the
WSBA Board of Governors, this award is given to a lawyer in government service who has made a
significant contribution to the legal profession, the justice system, and the public.
SEATTLE – The Public Counsel Unit of the Washington State Attorney General’s Office today challenged electric and gas rate increases proposed by Avista Corp.
Cencom, Inc. said to use “vague and misleading offers to lure consumers”
SEATTLE – A Kirkland, Washington-based business selling home alarm installation, repair and monitoring services nationwide will change marketing and billing practices criticized by the Washington State Attorney General’s Office.
Spokane Better Business Bureau discovered questionable practices at Physzique, alerted AG’s Office
SPOKANE – A Liberty Lake health club will change business practices the State Attorney General’s Office says violate state consumer protection laws.
SPOKANE – A week before trial was to begin in U.S. District Court in Yakima over Teck Metals, Inc.’s (Teck) liability for contamination from smelter discharges in Canada, the company has conceded its waste is leaching heavy metals in the upper Columbia River in Washington.
McKesson will pay states to resolve drug pricing case
OLYMPIA – Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna today announced that Washington state, as part of a national settlement against the McKesson Corporation, has resolved allegations that the company violated the Federal False Claims Act and various state false claims acts by reporting inflated pricing information for a large number of prescription drugs, overcharging the state’s Medicaid program.
State Attorney General’s Office says Platinum Parking, LLC violated Consumer Protection Act
SEATTLE – A King County parking enforcement company has agreed to put the brakes on business practices that violate the state’s Consumer Protection Act.
OLYMPIA – Gov. Chris Gregoire and Attorney General Rob McKenna today urged Department of Energy (USDOE) Secretary Stephen Chu to take all reasonable steps to adhere to the court-ordered timeline to clean up nuclear waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
SEATTLE – After receiving a flood of complaints against a Tacoma furniture store that was featured three times on King 5 Television’s “Get Jesse” and in an investigative piece by KIRO Television’s Amy Clancy, the Attorney General’s Office today filed a lawsuit against brothers Loren and Joeseph Gill, alleging both engaged in illegal business practices during the sale of home furnishings at Gill’s Furniture.