Latest Virginia Headlines
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Brown & Brown Insurance Agency of Virginia Acquires LRS&C
Feb 8 2019 // Brown & Brown Insurance Agency of Virginia Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., has acquired substantially all of the assets of LRS&C. Brown & Brown Inc. is an insurance brokerage firm providing risk...
5 Former West Virginia Volunteer Firefighters Charged with Arson
Feb 8 2019 // Five former volunteer fighters in West Virginia have been charged with arson following a two-year investigation by the state fire marshal’s office. The office says in a news release that the former Cabell County...
West Virginia Gov. Appoints Hunter Acting Insurance Commissioner
Feb 6 2019 // West Virginia Governor Jim Justice has appointed Erin K. Hunter as acting insurance commissioner for the state, effective Jan. 25, 2019. She takes over for Allan McVey who was appointed by Justice last month as Secretary...
Officials Investigating 11 Fires in West Virginia City
Feb 5 2019 // Fire officials say they’re investigating after responding to nearly a dozen structure fires in five weeks. According to Huntington Fire Marshal Captain Matt Winters tells WCHS-TV that there have been 11 fires so far...
16 High School Basketball Players Injured in West Virginia Bus Crash
Feb 4 2019 // Emergency officials in West Virginia say a charter bus carrying a high school girls basketball team has rolled over, leaving 16 injured. News outlets report the bus was carrying a team from Martinsburg High School when it...
West Virginia City Reports Overdose Deaths Doubled in 2018
Jan 31 2019 // Drug overdose deaths doubled in one West Virginia community last year. The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register reports figures released Jan. 22 by Wheeling police show officers responded to 13 overdose deaths last...
How Cell Phone Use While Driving Is Changing
Jan 28 2019 // Manipulating a cellphone was a contributing factor in more than 800 crash deaths on U.S. roads during 2017 amid a marked increase in the percentage of drivers observed interacting with cellphones, new research by the...
Wilkinson Insurance Services Acquires Commercial Insurance Services of Virginia
Jan 25 2019 // Wilkinson Insurance Services Inc., an insurance premium audit services company based in Huntsville, Ala., is expanding to Virginia with its acquisition of Commercial Insurance Services of Virginia. The acquisition is...
Shutdown Stalls West Virginia Recovery From 2016 Floods
Jan 23 2019 // A program that helps people rebuild homes that were damaged or destroyed in West Virginia’s 2016 flood is being affected by the partial federal government shutdown. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports a statement...
Starkweather & Shepley Selects Burns to Lead Newly Opened Virginia Beach Office
Jan 22 2019 // Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc. (S&S) has opened a new Virginia Beach, Va., location led by Christopher Burns, senior vice president and National Marine Practice Group leader. In this role, Burns...
New York’s The Iroquois Group Hires Venus in Virginia
Jan 16 2019 // The Iroquois Group, an Allegany, N.Y.-headquartered network of independent insurance agencies, has hired Charles Venus as its vice president of Middle Market & Specialty. Venus is based in Northern Virginia. The former...
Sharp Drop in Drug Overdoses Reported in West Virginia County
Jan 9 2019 // A West Virginia county saw a more than 40 percent drop in the number of non-fatal drug overdoses last year as compared to 2017. The Huntington Herald-Dispatch reports just over 1,000 non-fatal overdoses were reported in...
2019 Insurance Industry Meetings & Conventions Directory
Jan 7 2019 // 2019 CIWA Industry Days Jan 6-8 Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines La Jolla, CA CIWA www.ciwa.net 2019 Big ‘I’ Winter Meeting Jan 9-12 Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch St. Louis, MO Independent Insurance Agents...
Part of Chinese-Drywall Lawsuit Revs Up in Virginia
Dec 28 2018 // A class-action lawsuit that claims Chinese-manufactured drywall made American homeowners sick is revving up in Virginia. The Virginian-Pilot reported that about 175 people are suing Chinese companies in a federal court in...
Report: DEA, Distributors Not Doing Enough to Fix West Virginia Opioid Crisis
Dec 27 2018 // A congressional report on prescription pill dumping in West Virginia blames U.S. prescription drug distributors and the Drug Enforcement Administration for not doing enough to help mitigate the nation’s opioid...
Apartment Fire in West Virginia Kills 1, Leaves Dozens Homeless
Dec 21 2018 // One person has died and dozens of others were left homeless due to an apartment fire in West Virginia. Wheeling Police Department spokesman Philip Stahl told news outlets the blaze was reported Tuesday afternoon at North...
Major Snowstorm Causes Icy Roads, Power Outages Across Much of Southeast
Dec 11 2018 // Residents walked instead of driving cars and children enjoyed another day of building snowmen with school canceled Monday after a wintry storm dropped snow, sleet or freezing rain across five southern states. Accidents on...
Winter Storm Leaves Mess Behind in Southeast, More Snow Expected
Dec 10 2018 // A massive storm brought snow, sleet, and freezing rain across a wide swath of the South on Sunday – causing dangerously icy roads, immobilizing snowfalls and power losses to hundreds of thousands of people. North...
Suit Over Student Death at West Virginia University Frat House Settles for $250K
Dec 6 2018 // The West Virginia University Board of Governors has settled a lawsuit over a student’s 2014 death at a fraternity house for $250,000. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the state Board of Risk and Insurance...
Family of Slain University of Virginia Student Refiles $30M Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Dec 5 2018 // The family of a slain University of Virginia student has refiled a $30 million wrongful death lawsuit against her ex-boyfriend, who was convicted of killing her. The Daily Progress reports Yeardley Love’s family...
