Latest Virginia Headlines
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Study Shows Growth in Virginia’s Medical Payments per Workers’ Comp Claim
Dec 28 2016 // Virginia’s medical payments per workers’ compensation claim with more than seven days of lost time increased 26 percent for claims that occurred between 2009 and 2014, according to a recent study by the Workers...
Update on the Opioid Epidemic in U.S.
Dec 28 2016 // Drug overdose deaths, including opioid overdose deaths, continue to increase in the United States, according to new data from the federal government. The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease...
Report: West Virginia Flooded with Painkillers by Drug Wholesalers
Dec 27 2016 // Drug wholesalers shipped 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to West Virginia in just six years, a period when 1,728 people fatally overdosed on these two painkillers, according to an investigation by the...
Record Number of Miners Being Diagnosed with Black Lung Disease
Dec 21 2016 // New data show many more coal miners across Appalachia suffering from the most serious form of black lung disease than federal regulators previously reported. National Public Radio reported Friday that its investigation...
West Virginia AG Sues Pharmacy for Role in Fueling State’s Opioid Crisis
Dec 19 2016 // West Virginia’s attorney general has sued a pharmacy in Boone County, alleging it provided too many highly addictive painkillers over more than a decade. Attorney General Patrick Morrisey says Larry’s Drive-In...
Restoration Company Suing West Virginia’s New Gov Over Unpaid Flood Cleanup Bills
Dec 19 2016 // West Virginia Gov.-elect Jim Justice’s businesses are being sued by a flood restoration company for unpaid bills, after cleanup crews restored parts of the Greenbrier following flooding that hit parts of the state in...
The Charity Issue: Snapshots of Giving
Dec 19 2016 // NetVU (Network of Vertafore Users) During their annual convention in March, more than 50 members of NetVU (the Network of Vertafore Users) devoted a day to serving at the San Antonio Food Bank. Volunteers sorted 12,000...
Fire Official Says Virginia Marina Fire Investigation Could Take Weeks
Dec 14 2016 // A fire official says the investigation into a marina fire in Henrico County that destroyed around a dozen boats will take days or weeks to complete. Henrico fire Capt. Taylor Goodman tells the Richmond Times-Dispatch it is...
Rolling Stone Challenges Verdict in University of Virginia Defamation Case
Dec 7 2016 // Rolling Stone magazine urged a federal judge on Monday to overturn the verdict of a jury, which found that the publication and a reporter defamed a University of Virginia administrator with their botched story about a gang...
2016 State Specialist P/C Insurers Revealed: Demotech
Dec 5 2016 // The Demotech Company Classification System categorizes insurers into one of 11 categories based on an analysis of data reported by companies to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The 11 categories...
Virginia Flood Damage from Matthew Costliest Since Isabel, Officials Say
Dec 2 2016 // Virginia suffered only a glancing blow from Hurricane Matthew last month when unprecedented amounts of rain fell, but on Wednesday officials estimated flood damage to be hundreds of millions of dollars, making it the...
Fear of Flooding on the Rise Along Virginia’s Coast
Nov 28 2016 // When floodwaters poured into Holly Furlong’s Virginia Beach home in October, she ripped out electrical cords and rushed her four children upstairs. They spent the next two days without power, building blanket forts...
Students Building Tiny Houses for West Virginia Flood Survivors
Nov 28 2016 // Vocational students from across West Virginia are building tiny houses to help some people struggling to recover from flooding this year. Students from 12 vocational schools are designing and building the houses, which...
Crews Establish Control Line Around Virginia Wildfire
Nov 28 2016 // Authorities say crews have established a control line around a wildfire that’s burned thousands of acres in central Virginia’s George Washington and Thomas Jefferson national forests. The U.S. Forest Service...
West Virginia Settles Claims Against 3 Drug Companies for $800K
Nov 21 2016 // The West Virginia Attorney General’s Office says it has reached settlements with three more prescription drug wholesalers for $800,000 resolving allegations they failed to detect, report and stop suspiciously large...
West Virginia Regulator Sues Alpha Natural on Fraud Allegations
Nov 18 2016 // West Virginia’s environmental regulator sued Alpha Natural Resources Inc’s former management on allegations of fraud on Wednesday, saying top executives should be held accountable for an unusual $100 million...
Crews Protect 60 Virginia Homes from Wildfires, but Blazes Continue
Nov 18 2016 // Virginia is one of several southern states battling forest fires caused by humans and fueled by drought. Ed Stoots of Virginia’s Forestry Department said Wednesday that crews have fought up to 20 blazes in more than...
Ex-Assistant Principal in Virginia Files Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
Nov 18 2016 // A former elementary school assistant principal in Richmond has accused the school’s principal of sexual harassment in a $5.3 million federal lawsuit. Local news organizations report that Fernando Lightfoot filed the...
Virginia Hemp Crop Harvested for 1st Time in Decades
Nov 18 2016 // Among the many crops grown on Glenn Rodes’ family farm in Rockingham County, this summer was one that has not been cultivated in Virginia for decades but that may have a chance at a comeback now, thanks to a slow...
City in Virginia Proposes Changes to Flood Insurance Rate Maps
Nov 15 2016 // Norfolk officials are urging residents to take notice of proposed changes to federal flood insurance rate maps in the wake of Hurricane Matthew. The Virginian-Pilot reports that the rate maps would require some landowners...
