Latest West Virginia Headlines
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AssuredPartners Acquires Ramsey Insurance in West Virginia
Jul 3 2014 // AssuredPartners has acquired Ramsey Insurance Agency Inc., in Charleston, West Virginia. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Ramsey Insurance Agency reports revenues of approximately $1.5 million from selling...
Judge Tells Freedom Industries to Keep West Virginians Informed
Jun 27 2014 // Freedom Industries Inc., the chemical company that filed for bankruptcy after a leaky storage tank tainted the water supply in West Virginia, was ordered to do a better job of keeping the public informed. In a court filing...
Lawsuit Blames West Virginia Airport for Role in Chemical Spill
Jun 26 2014 // A federal lawsuit blames a Charleston airport runway project for the January chemical spill that left 300,000 residents without clean water for days. The lawsuit says Yeager Airport’s completed runway extension never...
Missteps Ongoing at West Virginia’s Freedom Industries
Jun 24 2014 // For the West Virginia company that sullied 300,000 people’s drinking water to start the year, slip-ups like not reading emails and leaving the company chemical headquarters unattended have produced problems for...
West Virginia High Court Reduces Nursing Home’s $91M Damages
Jun 20 2014 // The West Virginia Supreme Court has slashed by more than half the multimillion-dollar damages a jury levied against a Charleston nursing home in connection with a former resident’s death. In a 76-page divided opinion...
West Virginia Motorists, Bicyclists Learning to Share Space
Jun 16 2014 // Local cyclists seem to generally approve of new traffic laws in West Virginia to protect them, though many say the increasing number of riders on city streets already has created something of a truce with motorists. The...
West Virginia Chemical Firm Facing New Environmental Charges
Jun 16 2014 // A Charleston company faces state violations after a storm water collection trench overflowed at the same site where chemicals spilled into West Virginia’s largest water supply in January. The Department of...
West Virginia Storage Tank Rules Make Some Fear Citizen Lawsuits
Jun 16 2014 // Industry groups are jittery that if state regulators require the wrong type of permit, companies could be subject to citizen lawsuits under a new environmental law that regulates storage tanks. State regulators disagree,...
West Virginia Motor Vehicle Law Changes Go Into Effect This Week
Jun 4 2014 // The West Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles says some changes in laws will affect motorists starting this week. One new law allows DUI offenders to get on the ignition interlock program immediately if they do not...
West Virginia Takes Down All Business Files After Insurance Agent’s Data Disclosed
Jun 4 2014 // Secretary of State Natalie Tennant’s office has removed all business filings from its website after one displayed an individual’s Social Security number. Tennant told WCHS-TV that the image displaying the...
3 More Sentenced in $1M West Virginia Arson, Insurance Fraud
Jun 2 2014 // Three more defendants in a $1 million arson insurance scheme in Logan, West Virginia, have been sentenced to prison. U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin said the three were sentenced to a total of 25 years in prison for their...
Industries Want West Virginia to Delay Storage Tank Regulations
Jun 2 2014 // Months after state officials approved a law to safeguard against chemical spills, West Virginia industry groups want some requirements delayed and some of their storage tanks shielded from added oversight. Though the new...
West Virginia Launches Storage Tank Registration Website
May 30 2014 // A West Virginia website will provide information and online registration for aboveground storage tank owners to comply with a new law. The site explains the law written in response to a January chemical spill. The...
West Virginia Insurance Agent, Building Owner Sentenced for Arson Scheme
May 27 2014 // A West Virginia insurance agent and a building owner were sentenced in federal court last week in connection with a Logan arson scheme. U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin said that James Gregory Glick, 44, of Logan, was sentenced...
West Virginia Mine Where Two Died Had Pattern of Safety Violations
May 14 2014 // The West Virginia coal mine where a collapse this week killed two workers had “chronic compliance issues” and received numerous citations from inspectors last year, federal authorities said on Tuesday. The...
Survey Reveals Public Attitudes on West Virginia Chemical Spill
May 13 2014 // About one-third of those who responded to a survey conducted three months after a chemical spilled into the Elk River indicated a member of their household had a spill-related illness, Kanawha County’s health officer...
In Charleston, Business Interruption Losses from Chemical Spill Take Toll
May 12 2014 // Restaurants and storefronts are buzzing again in West Virginia’s capital city of Charleston, but many still haven’t filled a financial hole after chemicals sullied their running water and forced them to close...
Mother Files Wrongful Death Suit Against West Virginia ‘Tough Mudder’
May 7 2014 // A Maryland woman whose son drowned last year along an obstacle course in West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the organizers of Tough Mudder’s Mid-Atlantic event. The...
West Virginia Judge Allows City’s Chemical Spill Investigation to Continue
May 5 2014 // A Putnam County judge has ordered a Hurricane landfill where wastewater from a Charleston chemical spill was dumped to produce documents sought by the city of Hurricane in its investigation. Circuit Judge Phillip Stowers...
Lawsuits Over West Virginia Chemical Spill Moved to District Court
Apr 22 2014 // Lawsuits against Freedom Industries Inc., whose leaky chemical tank polluted drinking water in West Virginia, were transferred from bankruptcy court to federal district court in Charleston last week to “assure...
