Deborah Senn is the Washington State Insurance Commissioner New consumer website goes online by Amit Ranade Washingtonians have a new resource for the latest consumer information. The Center for Consumer Law and the Washington State Trial Lawyers Association launched a new website this winter to provide visitors with information on everything from their legal rights to the latest on product safety. We re very proud of this site, and we expect it to serve as a real resource for Washington consumers, remarked Janet Rice, president of the Washington State Trial Lawyers Association. Perhaps the hottest addition to the site is yet to be completed. An attorney-locator feature will provide visitors with access to more than 3,000 plaintiff attorneys covering a wide range of topics in Washington.
Users simply type in any combination of name, city or area of expertise.
The system then produces a list of attorneys that meet that critera. I believe this is going to be one of the easiest ways on the Internet for consumers to find local attorneys, said Rice. Site designers hope to have the locator in place by April 2000. If you get into an accident with someone insured by Allstate, you may not be in good hands after all. King County Superior Court Judge Phillip Hubbard recently ruled that Allstate s claims policies and practices were illegal, and that Allstate misled injured accident victims in order to help its bottom line.