Publicis worked with doctors to record intimate patient conversations for marketing purposes

SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced today public relations firm Publicis Health will pay Washington state more than $7.9 million for its role in fueling the opioid epidemic. The Washington Attorney General’s Office has recovered more than $1.2 billion and counting that must be used to combat the fentanyl and opioid crisis in Washington as a result of legal actions against entities that helped fuel the epidemic.

TACOMA — Following a trial prosecuted by Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s Sexually Violent Predator Unit (SVP), a Pierce County Superior Court judge has ruled that a 36-year-old Pierce County sex offender is a sexually violent predator will be civilly committed.

In December 2016, a mother reported that John L. Brewer molested her daughter, a developmentally disabled 7-year-old girl, while he babysat her and three other children. The girl reported to her mother what he had done and she confronted him. He said the girl was lying.

Decision to reject national settlement results in additional $24.4M to combat Washington’s fentanyl crisis

Lawsuit results in important reforms to the travel insurance industry to provide protections for individuals experiencing severe mental health events

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced today that Allianz, the world’s largest insurance company, must pay $1.5 million for discriminating against 560 Washingtonians with mental or nervous health disorders.