All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 28 2017 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Virginia (IIAV) is motivated to “redouble its efforts” around hurricane preparedness, particularly as it relates to flood damage, since following Hurricane Harvey’s...
Aug 24 2017 // A family has settled a lawsuit against Perdue Farms and a trucking company over the death of an off-duty sheriff’s deputy whose tractor was struck by a semi-truck carrying chicken.The Virginian-Pilot reported Tuesday...
Aug 24 2017 // West Virginia’s Department of Health and Human Resources says it will use $22 million in settlement money from drug distributors to help address the addiction epidemic in the state. Legislation passed this year...
Aug 23 2017 // One of the biggest commercial threats to Taser International’s signature weapon could come from a lawsuit the company won.Across the United States, wrongful death lawsuits involving Tasers have created a body of case...
Aug 23 2017 // A fire official says seven people have were sent to the hospital after a suspected gas leak at a West Virginia restaurant.Media outlets report the incident happened Monday at a Buffalo Wild Wings outside the Huntington...
Aug 22 2017 // President Donald Trump has made federal funding available residents in four West Virginia counties dealing with severe flooding, landslides and mudslides.The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced the money is...
Aug 21 2017 // Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc., headquartered in East Providence, R.I., has promoted Sean Cottrell and Elizabeth Lowe to senior vice presidents.Cottrell is the practice leader for the Human Service...
Aug 18 2017 // Republican lawmakers in six states have pushed this year for legal protections for motorists who hit protesters blocking traffic. Fairly or not, they’re facing an intense backlash now that violent images of a car...
Aug 18 2017 // A West Virginia city’s lawsuit against a drug company has led to a dispute over which is at fault in the opioid epidemic.The Charleston Gazette-Mail reported last week that one of the nation’s largest drug...
Aug 17 2017 // A.M. Besthas revised the outlooks to negative from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of B (Fair) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “bb” of West Virginia National Auto Insurance Co.,...
Aug 16 2017 // Three businesses owned by West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice and his family have agreed to settle for $551,420 a lawsuit that claimed they had not paid for $771,268 of cleanup work after the Greenbrier resort was hit by severe...
Aug 16 2017 // Scientists studying the aftermath of a massive coal-ash spill in North Carolina have discovered a byproduct of the fossil fuel that may pose human health risks.Duke Energy Corp. announced in early February 2014 that...
Aug 15 2017 // A West Virginia woman who filed a lawsuit after being injured when a deputy crashed into a townhome has settled for $1.5 million. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the settlement was finalized Thursday. Samme Gee sued...
Aug 14 2017 // U.S. health insurer Anthem Inc. said on Friday [Aug. 11] it will exit Obamacare markets in Virginia and reduce its plan offerings in Washington and Scott counties and the city of Bristol next year.The move comes nearly two...
Aug 11 2017 // An attorney says a settlement has been reached in a lawsuit involving a West Virginia car dealership and a former employee. John Howard Motors Attorney Johnnie Brown told The Dominion Post that the car group and its owner...
Aug 8 2017 // Ray Hatfield Jr. was six months into his latest coal job when he was crushed to death in a Kentucky mine.Hatfield, a 23-year industry veteran, was cleaning a conveyor belt that shuttled coal to the surface of the...
Aug 4 2017 // A Virginia man convicted of murdering his 15-month-old-son to collect on life insurance was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without parole.Joaquin Rams of Manassas, Va., was convicted earlier this year in the 2012...
Jul 31 2017 // West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice declared a state of emergency Saturday for parts of northern West Virginia with flooding from heavy rains.Counties included in the Saturday morning declaration are Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel,...
Jul 28 2017 // A hospital spokesman says three construction workers have been injured when a small section of a hospital parking garage collapsed in West Virginia.Charleston Area Medical Center spokesman Dale Witte says crews were...
Jul 27 2017 // Heavy rains that pounded parts of West Virginia and Kentucky last weekend left one person dead and two people missing, authorities said Monday.In West Virginia, Ohio County Emergency Management Agency Director Lou Vargo...