Latest Virginia Headlines
All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
West Virginia Insurance Board Director Jones Retires
Dec 30 2014 // The executive director of the West Virginia Board of Risk and Insurance Management is stepping down this week. Chuck Jones will retire on Wednesday, which will be his 68th birthday. Jones has served as executive director...
More Inspections, Fewer Mines Result in Lowest Number of Miner Deaths
Dec 30 2014 // Less than five years after an explosion fueled by excess coal dust killed 29 men deep inside a West Virginia underground mine, the nation’s coal mines are on pace for an all-time low in work-related deaths. Federal...
West Virginia Fire Commission Appoints New State Fire Marshal
Dec 23 2014 // The West Virginia Fire Commission has appointed a Charleston firefighter as state fire marshal. Charleston Fire Department Capt. Ken Tyree will replace Tony Carrico, who is leaving the position at the end of the...
AssuredPartners Acquires Sheehan Insurance in Virginia
Dec 23 2014 // AssuredPartners Inc. has acquired the business and assets of Sheehan Insurance Group. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. As part of the acquisition 22 employees will join AssuredPartners. Sheehan Insurance Group...
All Risks Hires Branson as Personal Line VP in Virginia
Dec 22 2014 // All Risks Ltd., an independent wholesaler based in Hunt Valley, Maryland, has hired Lee Branson as vice president of Personal Lines division. Branson will be responsible for All Risks’ nationwide personal insurance...
West Virginia Jury Awards $325K in Elder Abuse Case
Dec 21 2014 // A Monroe County, West Virginia jury has ordered a woman to pay $325,000 in damages in an elder abuse case. The circuit court jury found Betty B. Brown liable for fraud, conversion, unjust enrichment and breach of fiduciary...
Executives in West Virginia Chemical Spill Facing Criminal Charges
Dec 19 2014 // When state inspectors arrived at Freedom Industries asking about a licorice smell enveloping West Virginia’s capital city, the point person at the tank farm, Dennis P. Farrell, told them he knew nothing about a...
West Virginia Meatloaf Deaths Lawsuit Goes to Federal Court
Dec 16 2014 // A lawsuit blaming a restaurant’s meatloaf for the deaths of a former West Virginia state lawmaker and her husband is moving to federal court. In October, former Delegate Virginia Starcher’s family filed the...
Virginia Joins Whistle-Blower Suit Against Guardrail Maker
Dec 11 2014 // Virginia joined a whistle-blower lawsuit against Trinity Industries Inc. over an allegedly defective guardrail system, becoming the first state to say it will seek to claw back money spent on the company’s roadside...
Fewer Workers Hurt on the Job Last Year in Virginia
Dec 10 2014 // A federal study shows the rate of workplace injuries dropped last year in Virginia and remained below the national average. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Dec. 4 that for every 100 full-time workers in private...
Exec in West Virginia Chemical Spill Charged with Lying About Role
Dec 10 2014 // A West Virginia executive faces charges of lying to protect his personal wealth from lawsuits after his company spilled chemicals into 300,000 people’s water supply in January, according to a criminal complaint...
West Virginia Fire Marshal Resigns
Dec 10 2014 // West Virginia State Fire Marshal Anthony Wayne Carrico will be leaving his post at the end of the year. The West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety said Carrico has accepted a position as a...
University of Virginia Fraternities to Be Reinstated Jan. 9
Dec 9 2014 // The University of Virginia will lift a ban on its more than 30 fraternities and related activities, in place since Nov. 22, on Jan. 9, President Teresa A. Sullivan said. The reinstatement will be in conjunction with a new...
Virginia Drywall Victims Get Settlement Checks, but Many Are Still Ruined
Dec 5 2014 // The settlement checks have been arriving without fanfare in the mailboxes of 262 Virginia families whose homes were built with toxic Chinese-made drywall. It’s the first money that many of the families in a...
Virginia State Police: 5 Traffic Deaths Over Thanksgiving Holiday
Dec 3 2014 // Virginia State Police say the state recorded its smallest number of Thanksgiving weekend traffic fatalities in more than two decades. Five people died during the holiday reporting period, which began at 12:01 a.m....
K&B Underwriters in Virginia Partners With Freedom Specialty
Dec 2 2014 // K&B Underwriters, a Reston, Virginia-based program administrator and wholesale insurance brokerage for senior living facilities, announced its partnership with New York-based Freedom Specialty for its DigniCARE...
2014 State Specialist P/C Insurers Revealed
Dec 1 2014 // The Demotech Company Classification System categorizes insurers into one of 11 categories based on an analysis of data reported by the companies to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The 11...
Pickens to Head Insurance Board for West Virginia’s State Agencies
Nov 30 2014 // The West Virginia Board of Risk and Insurance Management is getting a new executive director. The board announced last week that Mary Jane Pickens will succeed Chuck Jones, who is retiring effective Jan. 1. Jones has been...
AHT Insurance in Virginia Announces CEO Retirement and Succession Plan
Nov 25 2014 // David Schaefer Armfield Harrison & Thomas Inc. (AHT Insurance) in Leesburg, Virginia, announced that President and CEO Alexander Green is retiring, effective Jan. 1, 2015. Green has been with the firm for 36 years and...
Abuse Complaints Against Private West Virginia School Released
Nov 25 2014 // A former West Virginia boarding school for troubled youths was named in more than a dozen complaints of abuse and mistreatment over the past five years, one involving a student who allegedly volunteered a younger sibling...
