Latest Virginia Headlines
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West Virginia Insurance Agents Cancel Convention, Citing Tough Economy
Sep 28 2009 // The Independent Insurance Agents of West Virginia has called off its 110th annual convention that was set to kick off on Sept. 30 for a few days at Pipestem State Resort. The association cited the struggling economy as the...
West Virginia Officials Concerned Over Fall Forest Fire Season
Sep 28 2009 // Officials with the West Virginia Division of Forestry are watching the weather with growing concern because a recent dry spell could mean a bad fall forest fire season. A recent dry spell has evaporated 4 to 5 inches of...
Norfolk & Dedham, Rockingam Group Form Mutual Insurance Alliance
Sep 28 2009 // Two East Coast-based mutual insurance companies have formed a mutual alliance that they say allows them to achieve efficiencies, diversification and spread of risk without actually merging their companies. The Norfolk...
Virginia Saw Increase in On-the-Job Fatalities Last Year
Sep 22 2009 // On-the-job fatalities in Virginia increased by 5 percent in 2008, despite declines in several categories. Preliminary figures released Thursday by the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry show 154 workers were killed...
Virginia Agents Present Award to Lawmaker
Sep 21 2009 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Virginia (IIAV) has given its Commonwealth Award to Republican lawmaker Frank D. Hargrove Sr. The award recognizes outstanding service for the insurance industry, independent insurance...
Kentucky Among States Considering Ban on Texting While Driving
Sep 15 2009 // Motorists would be forbidden to send text messages while behind the wheel under proposals awaiting legislative action in Kentucky early next year. Two lawmakers have filed bills that would add Kentucky to a growing list of...
West Virginia Governor Expects Insurance Home Rule Agreement
Aug 24 2009 // West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin believes the parties in a dispute over the state’s home rule experiment are close to resolving their differences. Manchin spokesman Matt Turner says meetings recently convened by the...
Miner Dies in Southwest Virgnia Coal Mine
Aug 24 2009 // Virginia has recorded its first mining death of 2009. A veteran miner was killed early Thursday after coal and rock fell on him while he was working at mine in Wise County near Appalachia. Fifty-eight-year-old William...
Insurance Golfers: Birthplace of U.S. Golf in West Virginia For Sale
Aug 19 2009 // Attention all you insurance industry golfers filling out your gift lists: the birthplace of American golf is up for sale. Lewis Keller, the owner of West Virginia’s Oakhurst Links, says that after 50 years,...
Feds Levy Nearly $1M Fine in Virginia Gas Line Blast
Aug 13 2009 // Federal regulators have fined a gas pipeline company nearly $1 million for safety violations in connection with an explosion in Virginia last year. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous...
Virginia to Consider Increase for Some Workers’ Comp Rates
Aug 12 2009 // The Virginia State Corporation Commission will consider a request to raise workers’ compensation premiums at a meeting in October. The National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc. (NCCI), a rate service...
West Virginia Fire Destroys 4 Coal Trucks
Aug 11 2009 // The West Virginia Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating a blaze that destroyed four coal trucks and damaged a fifth truck in McDowell County. State Homeland Security and Emergency Management Director Jimmy Gianato...
Alternative Offered to Settle West Virginia Home Rule Spat
Aug 10 2009 // Out of concern that a dispute over a local West Virginia insurance ordinance in the city of Huntington could jeopardize home rule pilot programs across the state, Gov. Joe Manchin met with city, state and insurance...
West Virginia Approves Workers’ Compensation Rate Cut of 6%
Aug 6 2009 // West Virginia Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline has approved a loss cost filing by the state’s workers’ compensation insurance companies that will result in an overall six percent decrease. She said more...
West Virginia Insurers Fight City Over Debris Removal Account
Aug 3 2009 // Property insurance companies in West Virginia are caught between a rock and a hard place over an ordinance in the city of Huntington that forces them to pay funds on some total fire losses to the city rather than directly...
Claims Firm Says West Virginia Owes It $1 Million That Was Lost in African Scam
Aug 3 2009 // A Memphis insurance claims firm wants the more than $1 million that it was supposed to receive from West Virginia, but that was instead diverted in an apparent Africa-based fraud scheme, state lawmakers learned...
Private Role
Aug 3 2009 // The property/casualty insurance industry, whose employees do their share of volunteer work and whose financial contributions support many charities, occasionally finds itself involved involuntarily in efforts to improve...
‘Green Goo’ Revealed Toxic Leak at West Virginia Zinc Plant
Jul 31 2009 // For at least five years before Rebecca Morlock noticed what she calls “a green goo” seeping out of the ground below a former zinc-smelting plant in the town of Spelter, water loaded with potentially toxic heavy...
West Virginia Worker Identified in Fatal Accident at Mine
Jul 30 2009 // A truck operator killed at a West Virginia surface mine on Tuesday has been identified. State mine agency spokeswoman Jama Jarrett said Wednesday that 28-year-old Mark Gray of Belle died Tuesday when his truck backed into...
Virginia Regulators to Consider Sprinkler Requirement
Jul 29 2009 // Fire officials urged Virginia regulators this week to require sprinklers in all new homes, while builders argued it would drive up the cost and put home ownership out of reach for many. More than 200 people — split...
