All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 29 2016 // A pain clinic doctor in Beckley, West Virginia, has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison for illegally prescribing a controlled substance and submitting false health care claims.Dr. Jose Gordinho was sentenced...
Apr 27 2016 // Wells Fargo will pay $8 million to West Virginia as part of a settlement of a decade-long dispute involving marketing practices.Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced Monday that Wells Fargo will pay the money to the...
Apr 22 2016 // The West Virginia Supreme Court has reversed a previous ruling it made that dismissed a lawsuit alleging age discrimination. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports that the court on April 14 reversed its decision to uphold a...
Apr 14 2016 // A West Virginia man has pleaded guilty in federal court to aiding and abetting arson and conspiracy to tamper with a witness. The U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of West Virginia said in a news...
Apr 12 2016 // A federal appeals court in Virginia has upheld a lower federal court in ruling that a commercial general liability policy (CGL) may cover a data breach. In a case involving the publication of private medical records on the...
Apr 7 2016 // Mississippi and West Virginia have become the 30th and 31st states to pass legislation to create a statewide regulatory framework for ridesharing services offered by transportation network companies like Uber and...
Apr 6 2016 // Former coal baron Donald Blankenship was sentenced to a year in prison for evading mine-safety rules in one of the final chapters of a fatal mine explosion that was the worst U.S. coal industry accident in almost 40...
Apr 6 2016 // Six years after 29 miners were killed in a West Virginia coal dust explosion, the man who ran the mining company like a fiefdom — a coal baron and power broker who earned millions of dollars a year — will learn...
Apr 6 2016 // Fire officials have confirmed that smoke detectors inside a Huntington apartment complex didn’t go off when the building caught fire, causing more than 100 residents to be displaced.News outlets report that...
Apr 4 2016 // Companies like Uber and Lyft can soon start offering rides in West Virginia under a new law approved by Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin.The Democrat signed a bill in March letting ridesharing companies operate in the state. The...
Mar 31 2016 // West Virginia environmental officials have proposed a $93,000 fine on an Antero Resources natural gas company for polluting waterways. In a consent order, state Department of Environmental Protection and Antero Midstream...
Mar 31 2016 // West Virginia pharmacies are dispensing significantly fewer doses of the state’s most popular prescription painkiller, hydrocodone.The number of prescribed hydrocodone products dropped by nearly 13 million tablets...
Mar 30 2016 // Former coal baron Donald Blankenship should face the maximum sentence of one year in prison for flouting mine-safety rules, prosecutors said, urging a judge to send a message to the coal industry.The government asked U.S....
Mar 29 2016 // Cady M. Sinks Ames & Gough, a specialty insurance brokerage based in McLean, Virginia, has hired Cady M. Sinks as a broker. Sinks has more than 12 years of experience in risk and insurance services. At Ames &...
Mar 28 2016 // West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin has approved increased penalties for passing stopped school buses.Tomblin signed the bill March 24. On a first offense, drivers passing a school bus that stopped to pick up or drop off...
Mar 25 2016 // Federal regulators have cited a Princeton saw mill for alleged workplace safety and health violations, including a lack of protective equipment worn during the operation of a chainsaw. The Occupational Safety and Health...
Mar 21 2016 // Virginia’s State Corporation Commission (SCC) announced that it will hold a public hearing in May to consider the competitive impact of Anthem Inc.’s proposed acquisition of Cigna Corporation and its...
Mar 18 2016 // Companies like Uber and Lyft can soon start offering rides in West Virginia under a new law approved by Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin.The Democrat signed a bill Tuesday letting ridesharing companies operate in the state. The...
Mar 16 2016 // Smoking cigarettes in a vehicle in the presence of young children may soon be illegal in Virginia.The Daily Progress reports that the bill awaiting the governor’s signature would make it illegal to smoke in a motor...
Mar 16 2016 // The Hilb Group, a middle market insurance agency based in Richmond, Virginia, announced Wednesday that it has acquired Raley, Watts & O’Neill (RWO), an independent agency based in the town of California in...