West Virginia News

Emerging environmental risks pose problems for underwriters

Anticipating and assessing risk, along with defining and assigning value to units of exposure, are basic components of an insurance underwriter’s job. Challenging as such tasks are when examining well-known exposures, they become doubly daunting when faced with previously unknown …

Caught in the middle

State legislatures are meeting, or will soon meet in most southeastern states to consider insurance proposals, many of which attempt to regulate the industry and prepare for the 2006 hurricane season. Associations in southeast states told Insurance Journal their utmost …

W.Va. mine survivor Randall McCloy Jr., families of deceased, eligible for benefits

Randal McCloy Jr., the only survivor of the recent tragedy at the the 260-foot-deep Inter-national Coal Group Mine in West Virginia, will be eligible for medical benefits and wage replacement benefits immediately, and will receive workers’ compensation benefits based on …

W.Va. claimant pleads guilty of workers’ compensation fraud

Terry Lee Villers of Wirt County, W.Va. has been sentenced to two felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud according to Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline. Villers was sentenced Dec. 16 in the Circuit Court of Kanawha County to two terms …

White House to Revisit Mine Equipment Safety; Head of Agency Quits

The Bush administration is reviewing safety equipment used in the nation’s mines after previously scrapping similar initiatives started by the Clinton administration. The agency that oversees coal mine safety is seeking public input on how to better supply miners and …

Fraud Alert

A Florida corporation and its owner selling fraudulent contracts for home health care services to senior Floridians has been sued by Attorney General Charlie Crist. Clearwater-based Intrust Home Care and its president, Roy F. Fitzgerald, are accused of taking more …

Editor’s Note: Caught in the middle

State legislatures are meeting, or will soon meet in most southeastern states to consider insurance proposals, many of which attempt to regulate the industry and prepare for the 2006 hurricane season. Associations in southeast states told Insurance Journal their utmost …

Emerging environmental risks pose problems for underwriters

Anticipating and assessing risk, along with defining and assigning value to units of exposure, are basic components of an insurance underwriter’s job. Challenging as such tasks are when examining well-known exposures, they become doubly daunting when faced with previously unknown …

Connecticut

Welcome to Insurance Journal’s 2006 National Directory of Excess, Surplus and Specialty Markets, Volume 1. This exclusive biannual market directory has been designed to assist independent agents and brokers in the task of placing difficult or unusual risks. For ease-of-use …

W.Va. mine survivor Randall McCloy Jr.,families of deceased, eligible for benefits

Randal McCloy Jr., the only survivor of the recent tragedy at the the 260-foot-deep Inter-national Coal Group Mine in West Virginia, will be eligible for medical benefits and wage replacement benefits immediately, and will receive workers’ compensation benefits based on …