Latest West Virginia Headlines
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West Virginia Unlikely to Remove Local Guns Laws: Senate President
Mar 28 2013 // West Virginia Senate President Jeffrey Kessler says a bill that would eliminate municipal gun restrictions in four cities is unlikely to proceed. The bill passed the House with overwhelming support and recent rallies have...
West Virginia Vote on Seat Belt Law Due Today
Mar 28 2013 // West Virginia’s House of Delegates is back on track to vote on whether to allow traffic stops for failure to wear a seat belt. Legislation making that violation a primary offense has idled since the House Judiciary...
PCI Slams Oregon Bad Faith Proposals
Mar 22 2013 // A handful of bills proposed in Oregon could hit consumers with nearly $200 million in cost increases and yield a rash of lawsuits, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, which is urging Oregon...
West Virginia Senate Committee Backs Higher Auto Minimum Limits
Mar 20 2013 // A West Virginia Senate committee advanced a bill this week that would likely increase car insurance premiums for drivers who can least afford it, but also expand liability coverage for the highest-risk drivers. The bill...
West Virginia Bill Would Yank License of Drivers Refusing Blood Test
Mar 15 2013 // Under legislation debated this week, West Virginia drivers could have their licenses revoked for refusing to take a blood test after they’re arrested. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin proposed the bill to try to crack down on...
West Virginia Debates Property Insurance Nonrenewal Rules
Mar 13 2013 // In West Virginia and most other states, an insurer can choose not to renew people’s property insurance policy if a claim is filed over weather damage. A West Virginia Senate bill that would ban that practice was...
Texting While Driving Injuries to Rise Despite Bans, Warnings: Study
Mar 8 2013 // As states take measures to keep drivers from texting and talking while driving, a new report from researchers at the West Virginia University School of Public Health asserts the laws probably aren’t having much...
West Virginia Senate Bill Limits Nursing Home Liability
Mar 8 2013 // A limit would be placed on the amount nursing homes would be forced to pay if sued under a bill passed by the West Virginia Senate this week. The measure explicitly includes nursing homes under the protections of a 2003...
West Virginia Senate Votes to Limit Landowner Liability
Mar 7 2013 // The West Virginia Senate unanimously passed a bill that would ensure that property owners face very limited liability from trespassers on their land. In general, common law states that property owners cannot be sued by...
West Virginia Considers Landowner Liability Bill
Mar 6 2013 // The West Virginia Senate is weighing a bill that would ensure that property owners face very limited liability from trespassers on their land. In general, common law states that property owners cannot be sued by...
West Virginia House Leaders Seek Review of Appeals Process
Mar 1 2013 // Speaker Rick Thompson and other West Virginia House leaders have proposed a study of whether the recently revised process for handling civil appeals ensures a full and fair review, amid calls for expanding the...
BrickStreet Insurance Gives West Virginia University Record $4M Gift
Feb 28 2013 // West Virginia University’s College of Business and Economics has received the largest gift in its history. The university said that the BrickStreet Insurance Foundation donated $3 million to the college’s...
West Virginia Cites 45 Violations After 2 Deaths at Mine
Feb 28 2013 // State inspectors have issued 45 violations at a West Virginia coal mine since two men died there earlier this month, including one for negligently rigging the switch on a hoist with a piece of wood and a rusty bolt,...
West Virginia Coal Mines Shut Down to Review Safety Following Deaths
Feb 22 2013 // West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin on Wednesday asked coal companies to halt production for an hour to review safety procedures following the state’s fourth mining fatality in two weeks and the sixth since...
West Virginia Still Weighing Health Exchange, Medicaid Options
Feb 13 2013 // West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin has yet to decide whether to open the Medicaid program to more lower-income residents, or how individuals and small businesses will seek coverage through the federal health care...
West Virginia Revises Penalties for Mine Safety Violations
Feb 8 2013 // West Virginia regulators have revised a proposed rule that would increase fines for mine safety and health violations. The original proposal would have raised the civil penalties across the board. The revised rule filed...
West Virginia Court Rules Negligent Mine Inspectors Can Be Sued
Feb 7 2013 // Private and federal mine safety inspectors can be held liable and sued when a negligent inspection results in the wrongful death of a coal miner, the state Supreme Court ruled in handing a victory to the widows of two men...
West Virginia Not Enforcing Mine Coal Dust Standards: Report
Feb 5 2013 // State standards aimed at reducing buildups of explosive coal dust in underground mines but regulators haven’t been enforced in West Virginia. More than a fifth of the more than 5,500 dust samples taken from mines by...
Safety Rule on Methane in West Virginia Mines Stalled
Feb 4 2013 // A rule that could toughen the limits on methane gas levels in West Virginia coal mines remains stalled as state officials debate both definitions and a timetable for implementation. The State Journal said last week’s...
Hearing Reviews West Virginia Gas Pipeline Explosion
Jan 30 2013 // To Sue Bonham, it was as if the world were coming to an end: A wall of flame had suddenly engulfed her West Virginia neighborhood. Amid a deafening roar, objects began crashing through her ceiling. Her home began melting...
