Latest Virginia Headlines
All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Chinese Drywall Maker Questions Product Liability Ruling
Oct 21 2013 // A Chinese drywall manufacturer asked a federal appeals court on Oct. 9 to overturn a judge’s ruling that U.S. courts have jurisdiction over claims that its defective product wrecked thousands of homes. A three-judge...
Multimillion Dollar Workers’ Compensation Fraud Probe Leads to West Virginia Bank
Oct 17 2013 // A federal investigation into a multi-million-dollar workers’ compensation scheme extended to the Bank of Mingo in southern West Virginia, where authorities seized computer hard drives and documents. FBI Special Agent...
Defective Drywall: Chinese Maker Questions Ruling
Oct 11 2013 // A Chinese drywall manufacturer asked a federal appeals court on Oct. 9 to overturn a judge’s ruling that U.S. courts have jurisdiction over claims that its defective product wrecked thousands of homes. A three-judge...
Medical Malpractice Case Ends in Hung Jury in Virginia
Oct 10 2013 // A $1 million malpractice civil lawsuit against a prominent Culpeper doctor has resulted in a hung jury. Jurors told the Culpeper County Circuit Court judge on Oct. 3 that they were at a standstill after 11 hours of...
Virginia Families in Chinese Drywall Case Forging Ahead
Oct 9 2013 // Seven Virginia families fighting for compensation over Chinese drywall that wrecked their homes have their eyes on Louisiana this week, where a federal appeals court will hear arguments over whether the manufacturer of the...
2 from Kentucky, 1 from West Virginia Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Oct 4 2013 // A West Virginia man and two Kentucky residents have been sentenced for their roles in a workers’ compensation scheme. The Charleston Gazette reported that Jerome Edward Russell of Williamson, Frelin R. Workman of...
National PIA Installs New Officers; Virginia’s Lee Takes Helm as President
Oct 2 2013 // The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) has new national officers. Each will serve one-year terms that began on Oct. 1, 2013, and run through September 30, 2014. John G. Lee, of Fredericksburg,...
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in Virginia Expanding
Oct 1 2013 // The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety expects to complete a $30 million expansion at its Ruckersville campus by late 2014. Construction of new vehicle testing facilities began in March. The project includes a larger...
West Virginia Higher Ed Panel to Vote on Requiring Emergency Plans
Oct 1 2013 // West Virginia higher education officials are considering a campus safety rule that establishes policies and procedures addressing four-year institutions’ planning and response to natural disasters, shootings or other...
West Virginia Supreme Court Judge Hits Ruling on Massey
Sep 30 2013 // West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Robin Davis criticized her colleagues in a dissenting opinion Friday for refusing to let institutional shareholders revive a lawsuit filed against the former Massey Energy two weeks...
Virginia Police, Nationwide Insurance Promote Move Over law
Sep 27 2013 // The Virginia State Police is joining with Nationwide Insurance to help protect public safety personnel and all those who drive tow trucks and road maintenance vehicles. They have joined together to promote Virginia’s...
West Virginia Senator Manchin Bucks Democrats, Backs Health Mandate Delay
Sep 27 2013 // U.S. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia broke ranks with fellow Democrats and said he’d support a stopgap spending plan that delays the individual mandate in President Barack Obama’s health-care...
Court Says Facebook ‘Like’ Is Protected Speech for Employees
Sep 18 2013 // Using Facebook Inc.’s “Like” feature to show support for a candidate in an election is speech protected under the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court said, handing a victory to the social...
Officials Defend Safety of West Virginia Bridges After AP Report
Sep 17 2013 // State highway officials say West Virginia’s bridges are safe despite dozens that are both in disrepair and at risk of collapse if hit hard enough in the wrong place. An Associated Press review of federal records...
West Virginia Supreme Court Upholds Dismissal of Massey Investor Suit
Sep 16 2013 // The state Supreme Court has denied a bid by institutional shareholders in the former Massey Energy Co. to revive a lawsuit they filed two weeks after the Upper Big Branch mine disaster. In an order released Friday, the...
West Virginia’s $50M Insurance Costs Driven by Storm, Prisoner Settlements
Sep 13 2013 // A major storm and settlements of inmate lawsuits contributed to a nearly $20 million increase in the West Virginia Board of Risk and Insurance Management’s claims expenses. The agency’s annual report shows that...
West Virginia Municipalities Eye Lien on Insurance Payments to Combat Blight
Sep 10 2013 // Municipalities in West Virginia are asking lawmakers for help in their battle against blight. A resolution endorsed by the West Virginia Municipal League earlier this year at its annual conference seeks an amendment to the...
9/11 Responders Far From NYC Seek Compensation
Sep 9 2013 // They weren’t exposed to anywhere near the same level of ash, grit and fumes, but emergency workers who rushed to the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania countryside on 9/11 are signing up for the same compensation and...
West Virginia Supreme Court Weighs Municipal Liability for Dog Attack Death
Sep 9 2013 // The state Supreme Court has been asked to decide whether the Monroe County Commission and a dog warden are responsible for the 2009 death of a man who was attacked by neighborhood dogs. The justices heard arguments last...
West Virginia Court Caseload Drop Tied to Workers’ Comp Reform
Sep 9 2013 // The number of filings in the state Supreme Court was the lowest in more than 25 years in 2012, according to a report presented to West Virginia lawmakers. The report by court clerk Rory Perry says there were 1,524 cases...
