Latest Virginia Headlines
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Alpha Natural Facing Big Insurance Buy for Abandoned Mines Shortfall
Apr 20 2015 // Alpha Natural Resources Inc, a struggling U.S. coal company, may be forced to buy costly new insurance or otherwise ensure it can cover obligations for cleaning up any abandoned mines, according to officials in West...
People – East
Apr 20 2015 // American International Group Inc.named Gaurav D. Garg as chief executive officer, Personal Insurance. The appointment marks the return of Garg to AIG, where he held various personal insurance roles for 12 years before...
Prosecutors Launch Website for West Virginia Spill Victims
Apr 17 2015 // Federal prosecutors have set up a website offering updates to victims about the criminal cases over last year’s massive chemical spill in West Virginia. On Wednesday, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced the new...
Brethren Mutual Insurance Hires Walthall as Virginia Territory Manager
Apr 16 2015 // Jamey Walthall The Brethren Mutual Insurance Company in Hagerstown, Maryland, hired Jamey Walthall as Virginia territory manager. Walthall brings over 15 years of insurance experience in property/casualty marketing and...
Texas, Louisiana Improve Building Code Rankings; More Work Needed
Apr 14 2015 // Source: Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA Texas doesn’t have the worst score in a recent ranking of state building code systems but it’s pretty close to the bottom, according to a national organization committed to...
Massey Ex-CEO Blankenship’s Criminal Trial Moved to July
Apr 12 2015 // Former Massey Energy Co. Chief Executive Officer Donald Blankenship was given a three-month reprieve to prepare for a criminal trial over an April 2010 explosion that killed 29 miners. The blast at the Upper Big Branch...
Ex-Massey Mine CEO: ‘I Don’t Want to Go to 100 Funerals’
Apr 9 2015 // Former Massey Energy Co. Chief Executive Officer Donald Blankenship, facing criminal trial over an April 2010 explosion that killed 29 miners, said the year before that he feared a disaster with 100 deaths. “I...
Virginia Fraternity Chapter Plans Lawsuit Against ‘Reckless’ Rolling Stone
Apr 6 2015 // The University of Virginia fraternity chapter at the center of Rolling Stone magazine’s retracted article “A Rape on Campus” said on Monday that it planned to sue the magazine for what it called...
Pipeline Developer Sues More Than 100 West Virginia Property Owners
Apr 6 2015 // More than 100 property owners in West Virginia are being sued by the developer of a proposed natural gas pipeline. Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC’s lawsuit seeks access to the properties to conduct a survey for a...
Jury Awards $3M to West Virginia Man in Ford Crash Lawsuit
Apr 6 2015 // A 74-year-old West Virginia man who sued Ford Motor Company after his gas pedal got stuck, causing him to crash his truck, has been awarded more than $3 million in damages. The Charleston Gazette reports that a federal...
West Virginia Lawmakers Put Off Decision on Uber
Apr 6 2015 // It looks unlikely that Uber is coming to West Virginia this year. With debate closed, the Republican-led House of Delegates voted on March 13 against reviving an Uber bill that was idled. The bill would have allowed Uber...
Family Sues Over West Virginia School’s Use of Walking as Discipline
Apr 2 2015 // A student’s family is suing West Virginia’s Berkeley County Schools over a school’s use of walking as a form of discipline. The lawsuit says Mountain Ridge Intermediate School’s policy violates...
Freedom Industries, West Virginia Sign Spill Site Cleanup Agreement
Apr 2 2015 // Freedom Industries and West Virginia regulators have signed an agreement for cleaning up the site of a 2014 chemical spill in the Elk River that prompted a tap water ban for 300,000 people for days. The agreement announced...
Virginia-Based Brokerage Rutherfoord’s Chairman Announces Retirement
Apr 1 2015 // Thomas D. Rutherfoord, Jr. Thomas D. Rutherfoord, Jr., chairman of insurance brokerage Rutherfoord, a Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC company, announced his retirement after more than 40 years of leadership and service at...
West Virginia Governor Signs Scaled Back Version of 2014 Water Safety Law
Mar 30 2015 // Less than a year after signing legislation with new safeguards in response to a 2014 chemical spill that prompted a tap-water ban for 300,000 people, West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin signed a bill Friday to trim...
West Virginia Chemical Spill Settlement for Community Projects Dropped
Mar 27 2015 // Lawyers for businesses and people affected by a massive chemical spill last year say a settlement to fund community projects is no longer being considered. In June 2014, lawyers for the groups affected by the Freedom...
Va. Retailer Lumber Liquidators Faces Safety Inquiry
Mar 26 2015 // The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Wednesday it is investigating Lumber Liquidators Chinese-made laminate flooring following a national TV broadcast raised concerns over levels of formaldehyde. Chairman...
Former Massey CEO Pleads Not Guilty to New Indictment in Mine Blast
Mar 25 2015 // The former chief executive of Massey Energy Co. pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to a revised federal indictment arising from a 2010 West Virginia coal mine explosion that killed 29 miners. The former chief executive, Donald...
West Virginia Governor Signs Comparative Fault Legal Reform Bill
Mar 23 2015 // Governor Earl Ray Tomblin has signed a bill changing legal protections when multiple parties are deemed at fault in a lawsuit. The Democratic governor approved a comparative fault bill passed by the Republican-run...
Firm Owned by Guardrail Whistleblower Files for Bankruptcy
Mar 19 2015 // A Virginia guardrail company belonging to a man who won a whistleblower verdict against competitor Trinity Industries Inc. filed for bankruptcy. Spig Industry LLC of Bristol, Virginia, had no income in 2014, according to...
