All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 2 2007 // A federal appeals court has upheld a Virginia law that regulates the sale of life insurance benefits by terminally ill citizens strapped for cash to pay medical bills and other expenses.Such transactions, called...
Apr 26 2007 // Representatives of the coal industry, labor, government, academia as well as technology innovators and equipment manufacturers are expected to attend the second annual International Mining Health and Safety Symposium in...
Apr 24 2007 // The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration has decided to investigate a fatal 2005 West Virginia coal truck accident after all.MSHA and the state Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training did not...
Apr 19 2007 // West Virginia environmental officials are working to breach a failing earthen dam that threatened to flood a small Lincoln County community following heavy weekend rains.Lee’s Fishing Lake dam could be breached later...
Apr 17 2007 // Emergency officials in West Virginia asked hundreds of Lincoln County residents living downriver from an earthen dam to evacuate last Sunday night because of concerns the dam might crumble and loose millions of gallons of...
Apr 16 2007 // The widow of a former shipyard worker who died from exposure to asbestos while building Navy aircraft carriers was awarded $5.55 million by a Circuit Court jury in Virginia.The seven jurors determined hat Kay Oney should...
Apr 9 2007 // The men and women who usually have a sympathetic ear for customers will be on extra alert for drinkers who drive.The nonprofit Foundation For Alcohol Responsibility has selected Harrisonburg, Va., and its bartenders, as...
Apr 9 2007 // Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has proposed $3 billion in borrowing for transportation projects, one-fifth more than Republican legislators sought, using existing taxes on car insurance premiums to pay off debt.Kaine, a...
Apr 9 2007 // The men and women who usually have a sympathetic ear for customers will be on extra alert for drinkers who drive.The nonprofit Foundation For Alcohol Responsibility has selected Harrisonburg, Va., and its bartenders, as...
Apr 9 2007 // Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has proposed $3 billion in borrowing for transportation projects, one-fifth more than Republican legislators sought, using existing taxes on car insurance premiums to pay off debt.Kaine, a...
Apr 6 2007 // West Virginia has ratcheted up its coal mine safety laws.Gov. Joe Manchin signed the latest legislation spurred by last year’s fatal mining accidents. The bill approved by Manchin addresses such topics as “belt...
Mar 29 2007 // Virginia police stopped more than 3,500 drivers for traffic violations during a statewide crackdown along Interstate 64 last Friday and Saturday.Virginia State Police’s “Operation Air, Land & Speed”...
Mar 28 2007 // Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has proposed $3 billion in borrowing for statewide transportation projects, one-fifth more than legislators sought, using existing taxes on car insurance premiums to pay off debt.Kaine, a...
Mar 28 2007 // The Public Employees Insurance Agency in West Virginia has denied two protests of its decision to award a multimillion-dollar management contract to a Maryland company.Humana Inc. and Highmark Health Insurance Co. filed...
Mar 27 2007 // One insurer, Brickstreet Mutual, now dominates West Virginia’s workers’ compensation market but that should change by the end of next summer.“We are working on being able to open the market to other...
Mar 27 2007 // The men and women who usually have a sympathetic ear for customers will be on extra alert for drinkers who drive.Harrisonburg, Virginia has been selected by the nonprofit Foundation For Alcohol Responsibility as the first...
Mar 26 2007 // Jane L. Cline was first appointed West Virginia Insurance Commissioner in January 2001 and reappointed by current Gov. Joe Manchin. In addition to her responsibilities as Insurance Commissioner, Cline serves as...
Mar 26 2007 // Jane L. Cline was first appointed West Virginia Insurance Commissioner in January 2001 and reappointed by current Gov. Joe Manchin. In addition to her responsibilities as Insurance Commissioner, Cline serves as...
Mar 23 2007 // West Virginia’s selection of a Maryland company to manage a new health insurance program for retired public workers is being challenged by two other companies that sought the work.The Public Employees Insurance...
Mar 17 2007 // The Offices of the Insurance Commissioner of West Virginia in cooperation with the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI), will hold training sessions around the state on development of workers’...