Meetings & Events LaunchPad Inland Northwest will host its quarterly networking event on Thursday, Sept. 23, at 4:30 p.m., at the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox, 1001 W. Sprague downtown. LaunchPad consultants will be available to 7

TIAA-CREF, a New York City-based financial services company that provides retirement plans to employees in the academic, research, nonprofit, and medical sectors, has opened a Spokane office downtown in the Fernwell Building, at 505 W. now, the the

Compliance with a key provision of the new health reform law could cost the nation's health insurers far more than most analysts expected, says a new study by Weiss Ratings, a Jupiter, Fla.-based provider of independent insurance company ratings.

The state of Washington has paid out $28 billion in unemployment benefits to more than 11 million workers since the unemployment-insurance system was created 75 years ago. On Aug. 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the the

More than 14 million—or 22.7 percent—of U.S. children were underinsured in 2007, says a study published late last month in the New England Journal of Medicine. That was far higher than the 3.4 million children found to be without at of

Finding a job right now can be tough, and finding one that comes with medical benefits is even tougher.Washington employers offering medical insurance fell by 1.6 percentage points in 2009, from 56.5 percent to 54.9 percent, according to an this

It may be the last place you want to be judged on your looks, but in a court of law it pays to be attractive.A new Cornell University study has found that unattractive defendants are 22 percent more likely to be convicted, and tend to get hit an

In an effort to lower costs, U.S. law firms that responded to a survey by the New York-based National Law Journal said they cut staffing ratios for associates, paralegals, and support staff to one of the lowest levels seen since the 1980s.The of