All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Oct 14 2019 // Worsening dry conditions affecting Virginia have prompted Governor Ralph Northam to place the state under a drought watch.The watch issued Friday advises residents, local governments and businesses to use less water. It is...
Oct 10 2019 // A mixture of salt buildup and light rain has made power poles combustible, causing thousands to lose power in several Virginia cities.News outlets report multiple power poles caught fire Tuesday causing outages for about...
Oct 9 2019 // Authorities in West Virginia have charged three volunteer firefighters with first-degree arson and conspiracy. News outlets report Rhodell volunteer firefighters 39-year-old Matthew Allen Meadows, 19-year-old Alexia...
Oct 3 2019 // Jackson Sumner & Associates (JSA) has promoted P&C Brokerage Manager Tony Costa to the position of director of Business Development. Costa previously spent 11 years with Markel Corporation in a variety of...
Sep 19 2019 // West Virginia officials say a 40-year-old coal mine electrician has died in an accident.The West Virginia Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training says Steven Vernon Keeney of Sylvester died of injuries from an...
Sep 17 2019 // Hub International Limited , a global insurance brokerage and financial services firm, has acquired the assets of Wash Financial L.L.C., doing business as Washington Financial Group (WFG). Terms of the transaction were not...
Sep 13 2019 // Virginia has joined a growing number of states suing members of the family that owns Purdue Pharma for their alleged role in the nation’s opioid crisis.Attorney General Mark Herring announced Wednesday that the state...
Sep 12 2019 // Assurance, an independent insurance brokerage in the U.S., has hired Chris Warren. Warren will be based in the Assurance Mid-Atlantic office in Arlington, Va., and serve as a risk management consultant for...
Sep 5 2019 // The company that manufactured a helicopter that crashed and killed two Virginia state troopers monitoring a white nationalist rally says it’s not guilty of negligence and fraud. The Daily Progress reports widows...