All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 16 2026 // Virginia officials are touting the state’s efforts in strengthening oversight of the state’s 300 nursing homes, including filling leadership and inspector positions and improving how complaints are...
Jan 16 2026 // Tracey Fallon has been named office president for wholesale insurance broker CRC Group’s first Virginia office.Fallon will lead CRC Specialty’s recently opened Richmond office, strengthening CRC’s...
Jan 6 2026 // The Virginia wage theft statute does not extend to protect employee commissions, the state Supreme Court has ruled.The Virgibia Supreme Court wrote that, in the plain meaning, the term “wages” ordinarily is...
Dec 31 2025 // NORFOLK, Va—The developers of a Virginia offshore wind project are asking a federal judge to block a Trump administration order that halted construction of their project, along with four others, over national security...
Dec 31 2025 // Erie Insurance (ERIE), headquartered in Erie, Pennsylvania, named Todd Morrison and Chad Ackerman as branch managers for the company’s Roanoke and Richmond, Virginia, branches. Morrison, Roanoke branch manager, has...
Dec 19 2025 // Elon Musk’s X Corp. sued a startup on Tuesday after it sought to cancel X’s Twitter trademarks so it can “bring Twitter back” as a new social media platform.X said in the lawsuit in Delaware federal...
Dec 18 2025 // Insurance broker NFP, an Aon company, announced the acquisition of Hamilton Insurance Agency, a property/casualty broker and benefits administration provider in Fairfax, Virginia.Hamilton has been a leader in the insurance...
Dec 12 2025 // At the conclusion of its fall national meeting, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners elected new officers for 2026, with Virginia Insurance Commissioner Scott A. White slated to become president.White has...
Dec 8 2025 // Afore Insurance Services said it has acquired Resolve Insurance Group, an independent insurance agency headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia that is known for its marine insurance specialty.Resolve will become part of...
Dec 1 2025 // A jury in Newport News, Virginia, has awarded $10 million to a teacher who was shot by a 6-year-old student.Abby Zwerner, who was shot in January 2023 in her first-grade classroom, originally asked for $40 million against...
Nov 13 2025 // The body of a coal miner was found inside a mine in southern West Virginia, four days after the stretch of mine was flooded when crews hit an unexpected pocket of water, officials said.It’s the third death this year...
Nov 7 2025 // A jury in Newport News, Virginia has awarded $10 million to a teacher who was shot by a 6-year-old student.Abby Zwerner, who was shot in January 2023 in her first-grade classroom, had asked for $40 million against a former...
Nov 4 2025 // Afore Insurance Services, LLC announced its acquisition of Salzberg Insurance Agency in Norfolk, Virginia, a firm with an 87-year history of serving the Hampton Roads business community. Terms were not disclosed. Under the...
Oct 29 2025 // A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday revived a $2.5 billion lawsuit against drug distributors accused of contributing to an opioid addiction crisis in West Virginia communities, overturning a 2022 victory at trial by the...
Oct 28 2025 // Virginia’s lawsuit against TikTok and its China-based parent company ByteDance Ltd. will move forward in state court, despite TikTok’s efforts to have it dismissed.Richmond City Circuit Court Judge Richard B....
Oct 24 2025 // The University of Virginia has agreed to abide by White House guidance forbidding discrimination in admissions and hiring, becoming the latest campus to strike a deal with the Trump administration as the college tries to...
Oct 14 2025 // Florida-based insurance broker King Risk Partners announced it has acquired Jenkins Insurance, an independent insurance agency based in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Jenkins Insurance has been serving Harrisonburg, Rockingham,...
Oct 9 2025 // A Virginia appellate court has ordered a new trial in a malpractice case in which a jury awarded a $2.5 million in damages against a doctor for alleged failure to properly administer anesthesia to a woman undergoing an...
Sep 29 2025 // No injuries were reported after a commercial regional jet overshot the designated touch down zone at a Virginia airport amid heavy rain last Wednesday night, but was stopped in a safety area at the end of the runway,...
Sep 26 2025 // Heather Clark has juggled working full-time for an insurance agency and caring for her young daughter for the past five years.“When you have a kid at home, you can’t answer the phones, and you can’t have...