All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 9 2017 // Core Assurance Partners, a newly formed insurance and risk management firm based in Hampton Roads, Va., is expanding its core competencies across industries and building on specialized expertise in the real estate,...
Nov 9 2017 // County officials say the cost of the response to a warehouse fire in West Virginia is already more than $1 million.The Parkersburg News and Sentinel quotes Wood County Commission president Blair Couch in a Tuesday report...
Nov 7 2017 // Several West Virginia municipalities are suing The Joint Commission, claiming the Chicago-based health care accreditation group downplayed the dangers of prescription painkillers and helped fuel addictions. The Charleston...
Nov 2 2017 // A Virginia woman who faked her own death in connection with an elaborate fraud scheme has pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy and fraud charges.Forty-nine-year-old Alexandra Hatcher entered the guilty plea on Tuesday and...
Oct 31 2017 // West Virginia emergency officials say a large warehouse fire is fully extinguished more than a week after it broke out. The state Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety says it was informed by Lubeck Fire Chief...
Oct 25 2017 // State and federal investigators are trying to determine what killed a 48-year-old miner found Monday at a coal mining operation in Raleigh County.James Ray Adkins of Colcord, West Virginia, was discovered missing at...
Oct 23 2017 // Authorities have arrested three people after a burglary at a southern West Virginia coal company.Wyoming County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Jimmy White tells The Register-Herald the department heard two masked people were...
Oct 23 2017 // Police in Virginia are investigating after an explosive device was detonated in Williamsburg.News outlets report the device was found Thursday night in a parking lot. Firefighters and police were called to the scene near...
Oct 23 2017 // The retired coal company executive from West Virginia chosen by Republican President Trump to oversee U.S. mining safety says his first priority is preventing people from getting hurt and that he replaced the managers of a...
Oct 17 2017 // Residents and businesses in nine West Virginia counties left without tap water during a 2014 chemical spill can start filing claims.According to a website set up to handle claims, forms were being accepted both online and...
Oct 11 2017 // A fire official says a young girl was taken to a hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening after she fell from a Ferris wheel at a carnival in Virginia. Fire Department Battalion Chief Bailey Martin tells the...
Oct 11 2017 // Two West Virginia men have been sentenced for their roles in filing false insurance claims for vehicle accidents.Federal prosecutors say the accidents were staged from 2012 to 2014 in Taylor, Harrison and Marion counties....
Oct 10 2017 // It has been two months since heavy rain swelled the waters of Fish Creek and drenched the town of Hundred, West Virginia, and its residents under several feet of water.The night it happened is stuck in the minds of first...
Oct 9 2017 // Workers’ compensation benefits and employer costs in West Virginia have dropped sharply compared to the rest of the U.S., but remain nearly twice as high as the national average, according to a report released...
Oct 6 2017 // For the 11th consecutive year, West Virginia has topped State Farm’s list for the likelihood of vehicles crashes involving deer.Using claims data, the Bloomington, Illinois-based insurer released its annual deer...
Oct 4 2017 // Workers’ compensation employer costs as a share of payroll declined in 2015, reversing a four-year trend, and benefits as a share of payroll fell for the fourth straight year, according to a new report from the...
Oct 2 2017 // Global insurance broker Hub International Limited (HUB) named Marc Cohen, currently president, as president and chief executive officer, effective Jan. 1, 2018. He also will be a member of the board of directors.Cohen will...
Oct 2 2017 // As homeowners file insurance claims in the wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, many could find their level of protection depends on the state where their damaged home is located, according to a research report released by...
Sep 29 2017 // The State Corporation Commission (SCC) in Virginia has appointed Scott A. White to serve as Virginia’s 14th Commissioner of Insurance in the 111-year history of the SCC’s regulation of the insurance...
Sep 29 2017 // Boston Insurance Brokerage (BIB), a Boston, Mass.-based provider of commercial and high value personal insurance solutions, has announced the firm’s sales and support expansion by opening a regional office in...