The application deadline for federal disaster loans is approaching for businesses and people hurt by severe weather in a dozen West Virginia counties last month. The U.S. Small Business Administration says applications are due Aug. 19 for damage caused by …
The plaintiffs who won a nearly $400 million verdict against DuPont say West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin and that state’s Medical Association should butt out of the appeal. DuPont lost a lawsuit over its handling of pollution and health threats …
Labor unions representing more than 1,000 workers at the four-star Greenbrier resort in West Virginia have given what they call a comprehensive contract proposal to management. Harold Bock is chief negotiator for the nine unions involved. He said that while …
Dow Chemicals Co.’s plan to give West Virginia University 58 acres of South Charleston real estate and lab space valued at $25 million has fallen through. Dow’s Union Carbide subsidiary blamed the cancellation on insurance problems in a statement issued …
Work could resume soon on the Interstate 70 Wheeling Tunnel in West Virginia and highway officials are still confident they’ll complete the project by the Nov. 1 deadline. West Virginia Transportation Secretary Paul Mattox said July 15 that officials have …
Safety violations by prominent eastern U.S. coal mine operators Massey Energy Co. and International Coal Group contributed to the deaths of two miners in accidents last May, West Virginia officials said July 15. Each company has been cited, though fines …
New Hampshire officials announced changes in licensing fees for insurance producers and adjusters that include a single $210 application and license fee for initial producer licensing replacing what used to be two separate fees. The producer licensing renewal fee remains …
State investigators have completed investigations of two fatal coal mining accidents in West Virginia. The state Board of Coal Mine Health and Safety is scheduled to be briefed July 15 on the electrocution of a miner at Massey Energy’s Aracoma …
Complaints about North Dakota’s Workforce Safety and Insurance (WSI) agency may not translate into support for making WSI a private business and allowing competition from other insurers, state lawmakers say. The Legislature’s interim Industry, Business and Labor Committee, which is …
A judge in West Virginia reduced by more than half a jury’s multimillion-dollar award to a Charleston surgeon whose hospital privileges were wrongfully revoked. A Kanawha County jury in February awarded Dr. R.E. Hamrick Jr. $25 million in his lawsuit …
