All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 23 2006 // OneBeacon, QBEOneBeacon Insurance Group completed its renewal rights and asset sale agreement to transfer its agricultural division to QBE the Americas, a wholly owned division of QBE Insurance Group Ltd., for...
Oct 19 2006 // General Reinsurance, which is owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., said it learned this week that the company is not a target of a federal investigation into the collapse of insurer Reciprocal of...
Oct 17 2006 // Virginia’s Bureau of Insurance has updated its free auto and homeowners insurance consumer guides and corresponding premium comparison pamphlets.The guides are designed to help consumers understand their insurance...
Oct 17 2006 // Instantaneous validation of employer workers’ compensation coverage is now available online in West Virginia.The Coverage Validation System (CVS) provides government agencies, contractors and other businesses that...
Oct 9 2006 // $1.2 millionThe number of motor vehicles thefts nationwide in 2005. That’s about 416.7 motor vehicles stolen for every 100,000 inhabitants. $7.6 billionThe estimated total property losses due to motor vehicle theft...
Oct 4 2006 // Gateway Bank & Trust Co., the banking subsidiary of Gateway Financial Holdings Inc., announced that its subsidiary, Gateway Insurance Services, Inc., is acquiring Insurance Center, Inc., an insurance agency based in...
Sep 29 2006 // District of Columbia, regional and federal officials this week introduced a state-of-the-art communications center that will serve as a command post in the event of a regional emergency.The 127,000 square-foot center, five...
Sep 25 2006 // A bird flu pandemic would kill nearly 700 people in Virginia’s Fairfax County, forcing hospitals, nursing homes and other medical centers to set up temporary morgues and stockpile body bags to handle the deaths,...
Sep 25 2006 // The fire that destroyed the Morgan County, W. Va., courthouse last month has raised questions about whether other counties are insuring buildings adequately.Only 24 of 55 counties insure their courthouses through the state...
Sep 25 2006 // Rutherfoord, a Roanoke, Va., insurance broker, says it is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions and has become the first in the U.S. insurance industry to establish a carbon neutral footprint in response to...
Sep 25 2006 // Some of the top auto insurers in the nation are reducing rates in Virginia.The reasons range from high gas prices to more sophisticated technology with which companies can calculate the risks of insuring particular...
Sep 21 2006 // GEICO insurance company announced it would add nearly 800 jobs at its regional headquarters in Stafford County. The facility, one of seven regional offices, employs about 3,000 people and already is one of the...
Sep 19 2006 // While West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin and the insurance industry credit last year’s ban on “third party, bad faith” lawsuits for $77 million in policy rate cuts, Jenny Bonham believes it helped one insurer...
Sep 18 2006 // A bird flu pandemic would kill nearly 700 people in Virginia’s Fairfax County, forcing hospitals, nursing homes and other makeshift medical centers to set up temporary morgues and stockpile body bags to handle the...
Sep 18 2006 // A man who pleaded guilty to causing the boat accident that killed a couple on Smith Mountain Lake has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed against him by their estates.Mark de Tournillon Sr. agreed Friday to a $2.75 million...
Sep 15 2006 // The fire that destroyed the Morgan County, W. Va., courthouse last month has prompted lawmakers to question whether other counties are insuring such buildings adequately.Only 24 of 55 counties insure their courthouses...
Sep 10 2006 // Twenty-five Virginia localities need federal disaster declarations entitling them to government aid for damage from Tropical Depression Ernesto, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said in a letter to President Bush. Virginia incurred...
Sep 8 2006 // A Morgantown, West Virginia, woman has won a $10 million verdict against Ruby Memorial Hospital for pain and suffering caused by an infection she contracted during a 1995 knee operation.The hospital plans to ask Monongalia...
Sep 5 2006 // Death toll at six; preliminary damage estimate $33 million Received by Newsfinder from AP Sep 3, 2006 19:16 Eastern Time...
Sep 5 2006 // Rutherfoord, a Roanoke, Va. insurance broker, says it is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions and has become the first in the U.S. insurance industry to establish a carbon neutral footprint in response to the...