Latest Virginia Headlines
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W. Va. Workers’ Comp Board of Managers Gives Approval to New Rules, Resolutions
Apr 1 2004 // Executive Director Gregory Burton said four measures approved this week by West Virginia’s Workers’ Compensation Board of Managers represent important building blocks for the Commission’s future...
W. Va. Medical Liability System Shows Continuing Problems; 5 Counties Considered Real Challenges
Apr 1 2004 // Doctors believe that frivolous lawsuits are increasing the cost of healthcare and West Virginia patients are paying the price, according to a survey released (See National News) by the American Tort Reform Association...
Report Backs Government Role in Malpractice Insurance
Mar 19 2004 // A convincing case can be made for government involvement in providing medical malpractice insurance for high-cost claims and shortcomings in some such arrangements, such as Pennsylvania’s Mcare fund, are due to...
NAMIC Praises W. Va. Anti-Fraud Bill Enactment
Mar 19 2004 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) said that its member companies were pleased that before West Virginia lawmakers adjourned Saturday they enacted House Bill 4004, an omnibus insurance bill that...
CIAB Urges W. Va. Governor to Ink Legislation Repealing Counter-Signature Statute
Mar 18 2004 // The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers (CIAB) on Thursday sent a letter to West Virginia Gov. Bob Wise urging him to sign legislation approved by the West Virginia House and Senate repealing that state’s...
Virginia Advances State Insurance Plan for Physicians
Mar 16 2004 // Virginia has moved closer to allowing physicians and hospitals to purchase medical malpractice insurance from the state’s risk management office. A measure, SB601, has passed initial rounds in the General Assembly...
Tort Reformers Look to Score in States after Washington Strikes Out
Mar 8 2004 // Last fall at a University of Virginia Law School forum on tort reform, some of the nation’s top tort experts agreed there were no easy answers on how to solve the nation’s longstanding love-hate relationship...
Virginia: George Washington, Tobacco and the Pentagon
Mar 8 2004 // The United States Census Bureau’s Census 2000 estimated the population of the State of Virginia at 7,078,515. Approximately 82 percent of the adult residents had graduated from high school and about 30 percent had...
Mountaineer State Faces Many of the Nation’s Same Issues
Mar 8 2004 // While not the biggest state in the southeastern region, West Virginia like all other states has its insurance issues. Insurance Commissioner Jane Cline recently set aside some time to talk with Insurance Journal Southeast...
West Virginia Proves More than Forests and State Sales Tax
Mar 8 2004 // The U.S. Census Bureau’s 2000 census estimated the population of the State of West Virginia at 1,808,344. Approximately 72 percent of the adult residents had graduated from high school and about 15 percent had earned...
W. Va. State Insurer Sizes Up McDonald’s Decision
Mar 4 2004 // The West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency is applauding McDonald’s for the company’s recent decision to phase out the “Supersize” portions from its menu. Tom Susman, PEIA Director said,...
Mountaineer State Faces Many of the Nation’s Same Issues
Feb 26 2004 // While not the biggest state in the southeastern region, West Virginia like all other states has its insurance issues. Insurance Commissioner Jane Cline recently set aside some time to talk with Insurance Journal Southeast...
Liberty Mutual Teams with AAA to Offer Va. Discounts
Feb 25 2004 // AAA Mid-Atlantic Insurance Agency Inc. and Liberty Mutual Group announced that they have entered into an affinity marketing agreement, making more than 700,000 Virginia AAA members eligible for discounts of 10 percent on...
West Virginia Operating With Tort Reform Concerns
Jan 26 2004 // Like many other parts of the country, West Virginia is looking to answers to improve tort reform in the state. Recently, Insurance Journal Southeast spoke with Randy Cox, American Insurance Association West Virginia...
Taking the Pain Out of Tort Reform
Jan 26 2004 // Having first looked at efforts to pass more tort reform in Mississippi (Jan. 12, “Miss. Tort Reform In Play As Lawyers Flock to Magnolia State”) and now reporting on efforts in West Virginia in this issue, one...
West Virginia Commissioner Eyes Tort Reform
Jan 26 2004 // When asked about a recent report from the American Tort Reform Association that singled out West Virginia as the only statewide “judicial hellhole” in a related report, Bringing Justice to Judicial Hellholes...
Westfield Insurance Branches Out Into Virginia
Jan 20 2004 // Westfield Insurance recently opened a new commercial lines and surety office in suburban Richmond, Virginia, expanding the company’s property/casualty and surety operations to 26 states. Located at 4701 Cox Road in...
Farmers Offers Multiple Lines Discount to Va. Customers
Jan 14 2004 // Farmers Insurance announced that customers in Virginia “may qualify for a special discount on Home insurance when they also have a Farmers New World Life Insurance Company policy.” “The Home Life Discount...
The Jacobson Group Places Remmells at W. Va. National Auto Insurance Co.
Jan 13 2004 // The Jacobson Group assisted another insurance organization in its quest for talent by placing David Remmells, as Chief Financial Officer at West Virginia National Auto Insurance Company of Morgantown, W.Va. “We have...
VIRGINIA BIRTH FUND ON WATCH:
Jan 12 2004 // An actuarial review of the Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Fund found that the program’s ability to meet future claims payments has deteriorated. However, the State Corporation Commission...
