All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 4 2018 // Marsh & McLennan Agency (MMA) has hired Denise Perlman as executive vice president of Business Insurance and National Partnerships. Perlman is based in Richmond, Va., and reports to MMA President Bill Jeatran.In this...
Aug 30 2018 // Although hurricane activity in the Atlantic has been relatively quiet so far for 2018 with only five named storms to date, the Virginia State Corporation Commission’s (SCC) Bureau of Insurance is reminding Virginians...
Aug 27 2018 // West Virginia’s attorney general says his office has reached a settlement over allegations that a leasing company unlawfully repossessed vehicles.Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said in a release that the...
Aug 24 2018 // West Virginia Governor Jim Justice’s family coal companies are breaching their environmental responsibilities, according to Kentucky regulators, who are seeking millions in additional fines for surface mining areas...
Aug 21 2018 // A recent study finds no evidence that ride-hailing app Uber reduced the number of serious car wrecks in Virginia. The research also found no change in the likelihood that a fatal crash involved alcohol. The College of...
Aug 14 2018 // A federal judge has dismissed part of a lawsuit in connection with an industrial fire in West Virginia. The Parkersburg News and Sentinel reports U.S. District Judge Thomas E. Johnson dismissed most of the claims made in a...
Aug 14 2018 // Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has signed an executive order establishing a task force to come up with a plan to prevent worker misclassification and payroll fraud. The state estimates that the misclassification of...
Aug 9 2018 // Washington D.C. business owners joined Assurance on August 6, 2018, at its new office location in Arlington, Va., to celebrate the independent insurance brokerage’s official move into the Mid-Atlantic...
Aug 8 2018 // The West Virginia Attorney General’s Office is eliminating its Division of Employment Programs and Workers’ Compensation Defense, resulting in the loss of 10 jobs. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the...
Aug 2 2018 // A grand jury has indicted a Virginia man in a boat crashed that killed his friend.The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports authorities say 32-year-old John Randolph Hooper was indicted on a charge of involuntary manslaughter...
Aug 1 2018 // Federal officials have announced a $2.2 million proposed settlement with CSX Transportation to resolve the company’s liability for water pollution violations stemming from a train derailment that caused an oil spill...
Jul 27 2018 // An explosion has injured three workers at a company in Virginia that makes custom machinery.News outlets report the employees were hurt Wednesday in the explosion at Thomas Industrial Fabrication in Woolwine, Va. Patrick...
Jul 25 2018 // West Virginia will receive $690 million in federal funding for flood management and repair projects. U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito announced the funding July 18 from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. A...
Jul 24 2018 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired Southern Maryland Insurance Inc. (SMI). The transaction became effective July 1, 2018. Located in Bowie, Md., SMI is primarily a property/casualty insurance agency offering coverages...
Jul 24 2018 // The place might sound familiar, even if you’ve never been there: the Appalachian foothills, down by the Ohio River, where the sirens scream addiction and death.Twenty-six overdoses in one afternoon. The highest death...
Jul 20 2018 // Core Assurance Partners, a financial services company headquartered in Hampton Roads, Va., has acquired E. L. Creech & Co. Inc., a fourth-generation, family-owned property and casualty firm based in Virginia Beach,...
Jul 12 2018 // The owners of a popular dinner cruise ship in Virginia are being sued by a customer who says the ship’s no-skid flooring worked too well.The lawsuit in federal court accuses the Spirit of Norfolk cruise ship of...
Jul 12 2018 // An official from the National Transportation Safety Board says emergency responders have recovered the body of the pilot of a small helicopter that crashed into a Virginia condominium. NTSB Air Safety Investigator Doug...
Jul 2 2018 // The West Virginia Supreme Court says a Rhode Island woman whose husband died of carbon monoxide poisoning at a hotel is entitled to West Virginia workers’ compensation benefits. The state Workers’ Compensation...
Jun 28 2018 // West Virginia regulators have issued two additional violation notices to the Mountain Valley Pipeline project.The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the two additional violation notices to the pipeline project are for water...