All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 28 2020 // A Virginia woman has sued a humane society that she says didn’t properly restrain a caged dog that bit her finger.Marie A. Franco-Wisnewski, 55, of Portsmouth, is seeking $240,000 in damages, plus costs and...
Jan 21 2020 // In one of the more modern meeting rooms at the over two centuries old State Capitol, 22 lawmakers gather on Mondays to confront the increasing cybersecurity threats looming over Virginia residents.This session the House...
Jan 15 2020 // The U.S. Labor Department awarded $866,675 for flood recovery in West Virginia, the state’s U.S. senators announced.The funding is through the Disaster Recovery National Dislocated Worker Grant Program. Flooding in...
Jan 14 2020 // Thousands of customers remained without electricity in West Virginia on Sunday after severe storms swept through the state.Appalachian Power said on its website nearly 6,600 homes and businesses had no service Sunday...
Jan 3 2020 // A Maryland man has died after a construction accident in northern Virginia.Nelson Aguilar-Salamanca, 55, was working for a subcontractor on a construction site near the new Capital One headquarters in McLean, Fairfax...
Dec 31 2019 // A fire at a western Virginia can manufacturing plant caused $4 million in damages and led to injuries for two firefighters battling the blaze, officials said.The fire began Friday evening at the Ardagh Group plant in north...
Dec 27 2019 // A West Virginia coal miner died while working at a Murray Energy mine, Gov. Jim Justice’s office said Tuesday.Raymond Leonard Starkey Jr., 21, of New Martinsville, was fatally injured Monday while helping to repair a...
Dec 19 2019 // Virginia is the only state in the country whose workers’ compensation system doesn’t cover injuries sustained through repetitive work activities, like repeatedly lifting boxes over several weeks, a new state...
Dec 19 2019 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired Virginia-based Kerr-Boswell Inc. (KB). The transaction became effective December 1, 2019. For more than 60 years, KB has provided employee benefits, property and casualty, life, health...
Dec 18 2019 // An employee for a freight transportation line was killed in a train derailment in West Virginia, a sheriff’s office said. The CSX train went off the rails near a Chemours chemical plant in Washington, West Virginia,...
Dec 18 2019 // A legislative report says West Virginia’s Division of Labor cited more than 500 violations of a jobs act intended to give local laborers the majority of roles on state-funded public works projects. The Charleston...
Dec 11 2019 // Workers’ compensation claims have emerged as another yardstick for measuring the devastation of the mass shooting in Virginia Beach.The Virginian-Pilot reported Sunday that 450 city employees have filed for...
Dec 3 2019 // West Virginia’s Roman Catholic diocese said last week that it wants a former bishop to pay it more than three-quarters of a million dollars after a series of alleged sexual and financial scandals.Diocese of...
Nov 22 2019 // Atlanta, GA, November 22, 2019 — The specialty property program team at Blue River Underwriters, a Breckenridge Insurance Group company, welcomed Jamey Schoenhard, underwriter, to the team and opened a new office in Glen...
Nov 19 2019 // A West Virginia county has opted out of a federal opioid lawsuit negotiation class, allowing the county to pursue the case in state court.The Exponent Telegraph reports the Harrison County Commission opted out of the...
Nov 18 2019 // A West Virginia judge is looking to the state Supreme Court for guidance after dismissing a case that alleges a Catholic diocese and its former bishop knowingly employed pedophiles. Wood County Circuit Court Judge J.D....
Nov 12 2019 // Markel Corporation and VSC Fire & Security Inc. have entered into a definitive agreement for Markel to acquire VSC. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the fourth...
Nov 8 2019 // Element Risk Management has acquired three new insurance agencies in Virginia and Pennsylvania.Barnes & Phillips Insurance & Financial Services of Woodstock, Va., Crawford Insurance Company of Strasburg, Va., and...
Nov 8 2019 // Allianz Partners, a Henrico, Va.-based insurance company, has hired Jeff Wright as chief financial officer and Jim O’Connor as head of Operations.Wright succeeds Diane Babson, who took an assignment with another...
Oct 24 2019 // Several U.S. states that have been ravaged by the opioid epidemic are pushing back on a proposed $48 billion settlement framework that would resolve thousands of lawsuits against five drug companies accused of fueling the...