Latest Virginia Headlines
All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
On-the-job fatalities rise in W.Va.
Aug 20 2007 // On-the-job fatalities in West Virginia rose nearly 72 percent last year. Seventy-nine workers were killed on the job in 2006, up from 46 in 2005. It was the highest total for the state since the U.S. Bureau of Labor...
2004 Audit Said W. Va. Food Warehouse was Safety Threat
Aug 16 2007 // A West Virginia agency was warned three years ago that a Charleston food warehouse whose roof collapsed last month posed a safety threat. A 2004 audit by the U.S. Department of Agriculture advised state Department of...
Sept. Agribusiness Conference Scheduled in Richmond, Va.
Aug 15 2007 // A two-day conference focusing on farm and agribusiness insurance risks will be held in Richmond, Va., next month. The Southeast Agribusiness Conference allows participants to receive continuing education credits from most...
Sept. Workers’ Comp Conference Scheduled in West Virginia
Aug 13 2007 // The Offices of the Insurance Commissioner, in conjunction with the National Council on Compensation Insurance will hold a forum specifically designed to provide workers’ compensation carriers with the information...
YouTube Video Appears to Show W. Va. Medical Malpractice Evidence
Aug 10 2007 // HCA Inc. had nothing to do with the video posted on the Internet showing sealed evidence from several of the 122 medical malpractice cases against a former West Virginia osteopathic physician, lawyers have told a judge. A...
Judge Hears Appeal on Ruling That Quashed Va. Bad Driver Fees
Aug 10 2007 // There was no rational basis for state legislators to assess surcharges for bad driving only on Virginians and not nonresidents, a lawyer for a repeat traffic offender told a judge considering whether the fees are...
W.Va. Miner Dies From Injuries Suffered in Weekend Accident
Aug 9 2007 // State and federal mine safety officials are investigating an accident that killed a section foreman at a mine in West Virginia’s Mingo County. Stevie Joe Browning, 24, died Monday at St. Mary’s Medical Center...
Utah Cave-in Happened too Soon for W. Va. Safety Reforms
Aug 9 2007 // The cave-in that trapped six men in a Utah coal mine happened too soon for key safety reforms adopted after a dozen miners were killed in an underground explosion in West Virginia. The reforms were meant to protect miners...
Va. Man Awarded $41 Million for Priest Abuse Files Another Suit
Aug 9 2007 // A Navy doctor who was awarded $41 million in a civil lawsuit against a pedophile priest has filed a second lawsuit against Roman Catholic officials. Attorneys for Cmdr. Kenneth Whitwell, 39, of Quantico, Va., filed the...
Va. Conservatives File Suit Against New Tax, Driving Fees Law
Aug 9 2007 // Virginia anti-tax conservatives this week filed the broadest legal challenge yet to the new transportation funding law, targeting not just steep fees for bad driving but the fiscal underpinning of the $1 billion-a-year...
2 W. Va. Employers Indicted on Fraud Charges
Aug 8 2007 // A Kanawha County Grand Jury indicted two West Virginia employers on multiple charges relating to failing to subscribe to the former Workers’ Compensation Commission. On the indictment of Susan Borman and Leonard Cox,...
Ky. Coal Miner Who Spoke Out About Safety Claiming Discrimination
Aug 7 2007 // An eastern Kentucky coal miner claims he has been targeted by a Virginia company because he spoke out against unsafe working conditions at one of the company’s mines. Charles Howard, of Roxana, filed a complaint with...
People
Aug 6 2007 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America has named Deputy Secretary of Commerce David A. Sampson to serve as the association’s president and chief executive officer. Sampson takes over the reins of PCI...
Commercial Lines Leaders
Aug 6 2007 // About the Commercial Lines Leaders: The Commercial Lines Leaders in this special feature are taken from Insurance Journal’s Top 100 Property Casualty Independent Agencies as reported in April. This list utilizes only...
Insurers Seek 3.3% Workers Comp Premium Raise in Virginia
Aug 2 2007 // The Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) has scheduled an Oct. 30 hearing to consider an insurance industry request to increase the workers compensation premium levels for industrial risks insured in the voluntary...
Virginia Judge Throws Out Controversial Bad Driving Fees
Aug 2 2007 // A Virginia judge has put up a roadblock to the state’s sizable penalties for bad driving. In the first known court challenge to the fees, Henrico County General District Judge Archer L. Yeatts ruled that the new fees...
W.Va. Woman Disappointed with USS Cole Damages
Jul 27 2007 // The mother of a W. Va. sailor killed in the 2001 terrorist attack on the USS Cole says she is disappointed with a federal judge’s decision to limit damages in a lawsuit filed by sailors’ families against...
W. Va. Woman Sentenced to Prison on Insurance Fraud Charges
Jul 25 2007 // West Virginai state officials convicted a Morgan County woman on three felony counts of insurance fraud, and she is currently serving time behind bars. Found guilty in December 2006, Deborah K. Wildberger solicited Michael...
Montgomery Insurance Quadruples Virginia Team to Pursue Growth
Jul 25 2007 // Montgomery Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, announced the recent addition of Virginia personal and commercial field underwriting specialists, territory managers, and underwriting staff in Central and Southern...
Va. Evacuation Plan Adds 300 Hurricane Gates to Highways
Jul 24 2007 // Nearly 300 new hurricane gates are being installed between Richmond and Norfolk to make it easier to evacuate people fleeing the Hampton Roads area in case of a major storm. The $5.8 million project will add the gates to...
