All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 23 2008 // 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...
Jul 22 2008 // 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...
Jul 21 2008 // 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...
Jul 18 2008 // 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...
Jul 17 2008 // 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...
Jul 16 2008 // With the number of motorcycle-related deaths sharply on the rise, Virginia officials are looking to improve safety.The state is launching a program called Motorcycle 411 at its motorcycle training range in Richmond this...
Jul 15 2008 // 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...
Jul 14 2008 // 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...
Jul 14 2008 // 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....
Jul 10 2008 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Virginia (the Big “I”) has created an employment services firm – Agent’s Choice Staffing Services, Inc. – which is designed to specifically serve the...
Jul 9 2008 // West Virginia boaters who like a few drinks while out on the lakes or rivers will have to take it easy if a proposed rule change goes through.The state Division of Natural Resources wants to lower the legal blood alcohol...
Jul 7 2008 // All of West Virginia employers, other than governmental entities, on July 1 gained the advantage of being able to shop their workers’ compensation coverage among carriers in a competitive market.Insurance...
Jul 3 2008 // The West Virginia Supreme Court has revived a pair of lawsuits seeking damages from timber, mining and land companies for devastating 2001 floods.The court reinstated a 2006 jury verdict that improper logging practices...
Jul 3 2008 // Contract negotiations have resumed between The Greenbrier and its unions with a meeting resort spokeswoman Lynn Swann called productive.Representatives of the posh White Sulphur Springs resort and the Council of Labor...
Jul 2 2008 // A West Virginia man who says his association with the failed First National Bank of Keystone cost him his banking career should be stripped of a $2.4 million damage award, a federal appeals court has ruled.The 4th U.S....
Jun 30 2008 // As gas prices soar, the costs of running a volunteer fire department are rising. Now West Virginia legislature and the counties are debating over who will pay the rising costs of the state’s 424 volunteer...
Jun 30 2008 // All of West Virginia employers, other than governmental entities, can for the first time, shop their workers’ compensation coverage among carriers in a competitive market.Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline said all...
Jun 30 2008 // West Virginia Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline, approved West Virginia Mutual Insurance Co.’s request to repay $8 million on an outstanding balance of the $16 million surplus note it owes the state.The state...
Jun 27 2008 // The sole provider of workers’ compensation insurance in West Virginia plans to make an early $60 million payment on a $200 million startup loan from the state. Greg Burton, BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co.’s...
Jun 26 2008 // Ten current and former homeowners in a Charles Town, W.Va. subdivision are suing a builder and subcontractors, claiming the company failed to install functional radon removal systems.In one instance, the homeowners contend...