All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 16 2004 // Virginia has moved closer to allowing physicians and hospitals to purchase medical malpractice insurance from the state’s risk management office.A measure, SB601, has passed initial rounds in the General Assembly and...
Mar 8 2004 // Last fall at a University of Virginia Law School forum on tort reform, some of the nation’s top tort experts agreed there were no easy answers on how to solve the nation’s longstanding love-hate relationship...
Mar 8 2004 // The United States Census Bureau’s Census 2000 estimated the population of the State of Virginia at 7,078,515. Approximately 82 percent of the adult residents had graduated from high school and about 30 percent had...
Mar 8 2004 // While not the biggest state in the southeastern region, West Virginia like all other states has its insurance issues.Insurance Commissioner Jane Cline recently set aside some time to talk with Insurance Journal Southeast...
Mar 8 2004 // The U.S. Census Bureau’s 2000 census estimated the population of the State of West Virginia at 1,808,344. Approximately 72 percent of the adult residents had graduated from high school and about 15 percent had earned...
Mar 4 2004 // The West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency is applauding McDonald’s for the company’s recent decision to phase out the “Supersize” portions from its menu.Tom Susman, PEIA Director said,...
Feb 26 2004 // While not the biggest state in the southeastern region, West Virginia like all other states has its insurance issues.Insurance Commissioner Jane Cline recently set aside some time to talk with Insurance Journal Southeast...
Feb 25 2004 // AAA Mid-Atlantic Insurance Agency Inc. and Liberty Mutual Group announced that they have entered into an affinity marketing agreement, making more than 700,000 Virginia AAA members eligible for discounts of 10 percent on...
Jan 26 2004 // Like many other parts of the country, West Virginia is looking to answers to improve tort reform in the state.Recently, Insurance Journal Southeast spoke with Randy Cox, American Insurance Association West Virginia...
Jan 26 2004 // Having first looked at efforts to pass more tort reform in Mississippi (Jan. 12, “Miss. Tort Reform In Play As Lawyers Flock to Magnolia State”) and now reporting on efforts in West Virginia in this issue, one...
Jan 26 2004 // When asked about a recent report from the American Tort Reform Association that singled out West Virginia as the only statewide “judicial hellhole” in a related report, Bringing Justice to Judicial Hellholes...
Jan 20 2004 // Westfield Insurance recently opened a new commercial lines and surety office in suburban Richmond, Virginia, expanding the company’s property/casualty and surety operations to 26 states.Located at 4701 Cox Road in...
Jan 14 2004 // Farmers Insurance announced that customers in Virginia “may qualify for a special discount on Home insurance when they also have a Farmers New World Life Insurance Company policy.” “The Home Life Discount...
Jan 13 2004 // The Jacobson Group assisted another insurance organization in its quest for talent by placing David Remmells, as Chief Financial Officer at West Virginia National Auto Insurance Company of Morgantown, W.Va. “We have...
Jan 12 2004 // An actuarial review of the Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Fund found that the program’s ability to meet future claims payments has deteriorated. However, the State Corporation Commission...
Jan 12 2004 // Hurricane Isabel’s cost to insurers in Virginia has more than doubled the original expectations, and now tops $925 million. The figure represents more than half of the total $1.69 billion in insured damage from the...
Jan 12 2004 // The American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) singled out West Virginia as the only statewide “judicial hellhole” in their recently released report, Bringing Justice to Judicial Hellholes 2003. The designation...
Dec 29 2003 // A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating to B (Fair) from A- (Excellent) of Medical Assurance of West Virginia, Inc., (Charleston, WV) a wholly-owned subsidiary of Medical Assurance Company Inc. (MAI),...
Dec 22 2003 // The American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) singled out West Virginia as the only statewide “Judicial Hellhole” in their recently released report, “Bringing Justice to Judicial Hellholes™...
Dec 2 2003 // The National Foundation for Unemployment & Workers’ Compensation (National Foundation) published its annual report on workers’ compensation in the United States, and reportedly finds West Virginia as the...