Latest Virginia Headlines
All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
The Hartford Enters W. Va. Personal Lines Independent Agency Market
Dec 14 2006 // The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. has entered the personal lines independent agency market in West Virginia. Products being offered in West Virginia through The Hartford’s independent agency channel include...
W. Va. Coal Industry Struggles to Find Lightning Solution
Dec 14 2006 // The apparent cause of a fatal explosion at an Upshur County coal mine in January has the industry grappling with a new problem: how to keep the nation’s underground mines safe from lightning-sparked explosions. While...
Virginia Property Owners Alerted to Insurers’ Higher Deductibles
Dec 14 2006 // Virginia’s Bureau of Insurance is advising property owners in the state that several top writers of property insurance are imposing mandatory hurricane deductibles of five percent on new and renewal policies. Many of...
West Virginia Woman Faces Insurance Fraud Charges
Dec 13 2006 // Deborah K. Wildberger of Morgan County was convicted earlier this month on three felony counts of insurance fraud. According to the West Virginia Insurance Commission, Wildberger was found guilty of soliciting a tenant,...
Incoming W.Va. House Speaker Vows to ‘Lead from Middle’
Dec 12 2006 // The next speaker of West Virginia’s House of Delegates will be receptive to measures pressing large employers like Wal-Mart for better health care benefits and overhauling the grievance process for public workers,...
National Group Says W.Va. is Getting Less Healthy
Dec 12 2006 // More West Virginians without health insurance and longtime problems with smoking and obesity have led a national group to drop the Mountain State’s ranking to 43rd healthiest in the country. That’s a drop of...
Ala.’s Bell Heads State Regulators; Kansas’ Praeger Next in Line
Dec 12 2006 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners elected 2007 officers during last week’s winter meeting in San Antonio. Alabama Insurance Commissioner Walter Bell was named president, Kansas Insurance...
W.Va. Probe Finds Lightning Set Off Sago Mine Explosion
Dec 8 2006 // After nearly a year of studying the Sago Mine disaster, West Virginia state investigators have concluded that an unusually powerful lightning strike somehow ignited methane gas underground, a United Mine Workers official...
Virginia Mutual Policyholders OK Stock Conversion, Merger with Alfa
Nov 29 2006 // Policyholders of Virginia Mutual Insurance Co. have approved the previously announced plan of conversion with Alfa Corp., the companies reported. Under the agreement, Virginia Mutual will convert from a mutual company to a...
Virginia Approves Workers’ Comp Price Changes
Nov 29 2006 //
Regulators Install Management Committee for Interstate Compact
Nov 27 2006 // The Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Commission created by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners installed its Management Committee and elected a Committee chair, vice-chair and treasurer recently...
Virginia Attorney’s Suit Blames City for Hurricane Floyd Floods
Nov 22 2006 // A Virginia attorney has refiled a $20 million lawsuit that blames the city of Newport News for flooding during Hurricane Floyd in 1999. The suit is on behalf of residents of the Denbigh area of the city, and follows a...
Court-Appointed Scientists Say Teflon Health Studies Could Take Years
Nov 17 2006 // Ohio and West Virginia residents who sued DuPont over a chemical used to produce Teflon may have to wait up to five years before learning if their health has been adversely affected by the substance, members of a science...
Work Begins on New State Fire Academy in W. Va.
Nov 16 2006 // Construction has started on a new state fire academy in Lewis County, West Virginia. The $6.3 million building, scheduled to be finished in June near the Jackson’s Mill State 4-H Conference Center, will replace the...
Interstate, Swiss Re Expand Trucking Program into Virginia, Indiana
Nov 15 2006 // Interstate Insurance Management (IIM) and Swiss Re’s Commercial Insurance are expannding their insurance program for the trucking industry into Virginia and Indiana. The program, which has been in operation since...
Report Cites Safety Violations in Two West Virginia Mine Deaths
Nov 15 2006 // State and federal regulators failed to find safety violations that contributed to the deaths of two miners in a conveyor belt fire at an underground coal mine in January, according to an independent report. But J. Davitt...
Medical Malpractice Market in W. Va. Improves
Nov 15 2006 // Medical malpractice insurance in West Virginia, once a money-losing business, has become a profit machine for insurers as the number of lawsuits filed against doctors has declined, a report by the state Insurance...
Business Moves
Nov 5 2006 // Aon, Old Republic Insurance Co. Chicago-based Aon has taken further steps to exit the property and casualty underwriting business by moving to sell its Construction Program Group (CPG). Aon also announced that it would...
Business Moves
Nov 5 2006 // Affirmative Insurance Holdings, USAgencies Affirmative Insurance Holdings Inc., Addison, Texas, and privately-held USAgencies L.L.C., based in Baton Rouge, La., announced a definitive agreement under which Affirmative will...
Business Moves
Nov 5 2006 // Aon, Old Republic Insurance Co. Chicago-based Aon has taken steps to exit the property and casualty underwriting business by moving to sell its Construction Program Group (CPG). Aon also announced that it would strengthen...
