Latest Virginia Headlines
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West Virginia Lawmaker Asks Huntington to Scrap Insurance Rule
Jul 28 2009 // A state lawmaker is urging Huntington to scrap an ordinance that has prompted a court challenge to West Virginia’s experiment with home rule. Delegate Jim Morgan, a Cabell County Democrat, wants the city to withdraw...
West Virginia Insurers Fight City Over Forced Debris Removal Escrow Account
Jul 21 2009 // Property insurance companies in West Virginia are finding themselves caught between a rock and a hard place over an ordinance in the city of Huntington that forces them to pay funds on some total fire losses to the city...
Insurance Claims Firm Says West Virginia Owes It $1 Million Lost in Scam
Jul 21 2009 // A Memphis insurance claims firm wants the more than $1 million that it was supposed to receive from West Virginia, but that was instead diverted in an apparent Africa-based fraud scheme, state lawmakers learned...
It Figures
Jul 20 2009 // $750,000 The proposed reduced limit on coastal insurance available from the North Carolina Beach Plan under legislation designed to address the over-exposure and under-funding of this state-backed plan. The limit is now $1...
Business Moves
Jul 20 2009 // Focus Holdings, Capacity Insurance Focus Holdings, LLC in Sunrise, Florida, closed on its acquisition of Capacity Insurance Co. (CIC), a Florida domestic commercial lines insurer, effective July 1, 2009. Focus, better...
Nearly 8,300 Motorists Cited in Virginia Crackdown
Jul 15 2009 // Virginia State Police issued citations for nearly 8,300 violations on Interstates 95 and 81 as part of a weekend traffic-enforcement campaign. State police say troopers stopped 2,077 speeders and 240 reckless drivers on...
West Virginia Public Insurance Agency Faces Suit Over Subsidy Cut
Jul 14 2009 // Recent hearings may not keep West Virginia’s Public Employees Insurance Agency out of court over a proposal to stop subsidizing retiree health care, one advocate for state workers says. The American Federation of...
West Virginia Touts Switch to Private Workers’ Compensation System
Jul 7 2009 // West Virginia Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline says her state’s one-year old privatized workers’ compensation system is offering better claims administration, lower costs for employers and better treatment...
West Virginia Doctor Convicted of Insurance Fraud Denied New Trial
Jul 6 2009 // A federal judge has denied a convicted West Virginia physician’s request for a new trial. Dr. John C. Sharp of Marlinton was convicted last year on 29 counts of health care fraud for billing insurers for services he...
Former State-Backed Insurer, Brickstreet, Repays West Virginia Loan
Jul 2 2009 // Workers’ compensation insurer BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co. says it has completed an early payoff on a $200 million startup loan from West Virginia. President and Chief Executive Officer Greg Burton says the...
290 Landowners in West Virginia Flood Plain Offered Buyouts
Jun 30 2009 // After years of Dunloup Creek in West Virginia’s Fayette County constantly flooding, officials think they’ve found a solution: abandon the region. The federal Natural Resources Conservation Service and the...
New West Virginia Laws to Restrict Teen Drivers
Jun 26 2009 // Beginning drivers in West Virginia will soon face new restrictions ranging from when they can be out to when they can be pulled over. Although the new rules won’t go into effect until July 10, Division of Motor...
Nationwide Golf Tour Cuts West Virginia Winnings as Sponsors Lag
Jun 26 2009 // One of the Nationwide Tour’s top events slashed its purse nearly in half because of a lack of sponsorships. This week’s Players Cup at Pete Dye Golf Course in West Virginia will award $600,000 in prize money,...
West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Insurer Approved in Kentucky
Jun 25 2009 // West Virginia’s BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co. said it received word this week that it has been approved to write workers’ compensation insurance in Kentucky. The expansion into Kentucky begins a “new...
Gov. Manchin Names Commission to Study West Virginia Judiciary
Jun 18 2009 // Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will serve as honorary chair of a new study of West Virginia’s judiciary commissioned by Gov. Joe Manchin, the governor announced. Manchin named...
Retired West Virginia Judge to Replace Benjamin in Massey Retrial
Jun 16 2009 // A retired Putnam County judge has been picked to replace state Supreme Court Chief Justice Brent Benjamin on a case involving Massey Energy. Acting chief justice Robin Davis appointed James Holliday on Thursday to serve on...
Justice Benjamins
Jun 15 2009 // Eleven states also elect insurance commissioners and given that insurance regulators are in many ways judges, the same potential conflicts are in play. An elected West Virginia judge should have taken himself out a case...
How Might Supreme Court Recusal Ruling Affect West Virginia Judiciary?
Jun 10 2009 // This week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that faults state Justice Brent Benjamin for not recusing himself from a case involving a generous campaign supporter may aid a pending review of West Virginia’s court...
Supreme Court Favors Elected Judge Recusal In West Virginia Massey Case
Jun 9 2009 // The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a West Virginia judge should have disqualified himself from an appeal of a $50 million jury verdict against Massey Energy Co. because the coal mining company’s CEO had been a major...
Woman Wins Suit Against Virginia Assisted Living Home
Jun 8 2009 // A jury has awarded $750,000 in damages against an assisted living facility in Newport News, Virginia where a former staffer is accused of sexually assaulting a mentally disabled resident. Last week’s verdict came in...
