West Virginia News

Where can the agricultural producer turn for economic relief?

In the wake of the devastating January 2007 agricultural events, including the citrus freeze in California and the Colorado livestock blizzard, farmers and ranchers are looking for answers — hard answers dealing with their economic survival. In California alone, damage …

W.Va. Expected to Approve First Coal Mine Shelters

Emergency shelters are about to become a reality in West Virginia coal mines. The state Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training is expected to approve the first underground shelter designs this week, Randy Harris, the agency’s engineering consultant, said …

W.Va. Bill Could Extend Health Insurance to Thousands

Thousands of West Virginians could be newly eligible for health insurance through their parents’ plans under a measure advanced Wednesday by the Senate Finance Committee. The bill already passed the House of Delegates in a slightly different form. It would …

W. Va. Court Rebukes Hospital, Upholds Doctor’s Right to Self-Insure

The West Virginia Supreme Court refused this week to hear Charleston Area Medical Center’s appeal of a 2005 circuit court ruling that upheld a physician’s right to provide his own medical malpractice insurance. The hospital had sought to overturn Kanawha …

State Farm Announces $1.2 Billion Mutual Auto Policyholder Dividend

New Markets

Hospitality Program Nuts & Bolts: Underwriters at PLIS are offering The Hospitality program, written on Lloyd’s paper covering named perils ranging from Aeromonas hydrophila to Yersinia enterocolotica. The policy has the benefit of: a “trade name trigger;” up to 25 …

People and Places

The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America named Cliston Brown as the organization’s director of federal public affairs. Brown comes to PCI after three years with the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America where he served as director of …

People The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America named Cliston Brown as the organization’s director of federal public affairs. Brown comes to PCI after three years with the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America where he served as director …

New Markets

Hospitality Program Nuts & Bolts: Underwriters at PLIS are offering The Hospitality program, written on Lloyd’s paper covering named perils ranging from Aeromonas hydrophila to Yersinia enterocolotica. The policy has the benefit of: a “trade name trigger;” up to 25 …

W.Va. Man Indicted on Felony Count of Insurance Fraud

West Virginbia’s Marion County Prosecutor’s Office and the Office of the Insurance Commissioner’s Fraud Unit indicted Foster Glen Carnes of Marion County earlier this month on one felony count of filing a fraudulent insurance claim. Carnes, 28, of Morgantown, allegedly …