All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 21 2009 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Virginia (IIAV) has given its Commonwealth Award to Republican lawmaker Frank D. Hargrove Sr. The award recognizes outstanding service for the insurance industry, independent insurance...
Sep 15 2009 // Motorists would be forbidden to send text messages while behind the wheel under proposals awaiting legislative action in Kentucky early next year.Two lawmakers have filed bills that would add Kentucky to a growing list of...
Aug 24 2009 // West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin believes the parties in a dispute over the state’s home rule experiment are close to resolving their differences.Manchin spokesman Matt Turner says meetings recently convened by the...
Aug 24 2009 // Virginia has recorded its first mining death of 2009. A veteran miner was killed early Thursday after coal and rock fell on him while he was working at mine in Wise County near Appalachia. Fifty-eight-year-old William...
Aug 19 2009 // Attention all you insurance industry golfers filling out your gift lists: the birthplace of American golf is up for sale.Lewis Keller, the owner of West Virginia’s Oakhurst Links, says that after 50 years, it’s...
Aug 13 2009 // Federal regulators have fined a gas pipeline company nearly $1 million for safety violations in connection with an explosion in Virginia last year.The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous...
Aug 12 2009 // The Virginia State Corporation Commission will consider a request to raise workers’ compensation premiums at a meeting in October.The National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc. (NCCI), a rate service...
Aug 11 2009 // The West Virginia Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating a blaze that destroyed four coal trucks and damaged a fifth truck in McDowell County.State Homeland Security and Emergency Management Director Jimmy Gianato...
Aug 10 2009 // Out of concern that a dispute over a local West Virginia insurance ordinance in the city of Huntington could jeopardize home rule pilot programs across the state, Gov. Joe Manchin met with city, state and insurance...
Aug 6 2009 // West Virginia Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline has approved a loss cost filing by the state’s workers’ compensation insurance companies that will result in an overall six percent decrease.She said more than...
Aug 3 2009 // Property insurance companies in West Virginia are caught between a rock and a hard place over an ordinance in the city of Huntington that forces them to pay funds on some total fire losses to the city rather than directly...
Aug 3 2009 // A Memphis insurance claims firm wants the more than $1 million that it was supposed to receive from West Virginia, but that was instead diverted in an apparent Africa-based fraud scheme, state lawmakers learned...
Aug 3 2009 // The property/casualty insurance industry, whose employees do their share of volunteer work and whose financial contributions support many charities, occasionally finds itself involved involuntarily in efforts to improve...
Jul 31 2009 // For at least five years before Rebecca Morlock noticed what she calls “a green goo” seeping out of the ground below a former zinc-smelting plant in the town of Spelter, water loaded with potentially toxic heavy...
Jul 30 2009 // A truck operator killed at a West Virginia surface mine on Tuesday has been identified.State mine agency spokeswoman Jama Jarrett said Wednesday that 28-year-old Mark Gray of Belle died Tuesday when his truck backed into a...
Jul 29 2009 // Fire officials urged Virginia regulators this week to require sprinklers in all new homes, while builders argued it would drive up the cost and put home ownership out of reach for many.More than 200 people — split...
Jul 28 2009 // A state lawmaker is urging Huntington to scrap an ordinance that has prompted a court challenge to West Virginia’s experiment with home rule.Delegate Jim Morgan, a Cabell County Democrat, wants the city to withdraw a...
Jul 21 2009 // Property insurance companies in West Virginia are finding themselves caught between a rock and a hard place over an ordinance in the city of Huntington that forces them to pay funds on some total fire losses to the city...
Jul 21 2009 // A Memphis insurance claims firm wants the more than $1 million that it was supposed to receive from West Virginia, but that was instead diverted in an apparent Africa-based fraud scheme, state lawmakers learned...
Jul 20 2009 // $750,000The proposed reduced limit on coastal insurance available from the North Carolina Beach Plan under legislation designed to address the over-exposure and under-funding of this state-backed plan. The limit is now $1...