All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 31 2015 // Trinity Industries Inc.’s guardrail system will undergo additional crash testing by Virginia, raising new questions about a device on roadways across the country.Some of Virginia’s six proposed tests on the...
Aug 31 2015 // The West Virginia Public Service Commission says 212 commercial vehicles were taken out of service as a result of recent inspections.Violations found by PSC transportation enforcement officers included faulty brakes,...
Aug 28 2015 // The Andrew Agency, an independent insurance agency based in Richmond, Virginia, announced that it has acquired Crowder & Holloway in South Hill, Virginia. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1936,...
Aug 27 2015 // Continental Underwriters, a Richmond, Virginia-based managing general agency/wholesaler specializing in the placement of insurance for lumber and forest products operations, hired Corey Bounds as loss control director and...
Aug 25 2015 // Officials in Huntington, W. Va., are scrambling to deal with an increase in sinkholes across the city.Heavy rainfall and aging infrastructure have contributed to the increase, and the city lacks resources to do more than...
Aug 21 2015 // Insurance underwriters claim they shouldn’t be responsible for reimbursing a charity for payouts to golf fans for two holes-in-one made during the PGA Tour’s Greenbrier Classic in White Sulphur Springs, West...
Aug 19 2015 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI ) recently delivered a workers’ compensation loss cost filing to the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC).Based on its review of the most recently available...
Aug 19 2015 // A decade after Hurricane Katrina caused $41 billion in property/casualty insurance losses, the most expensive catastrophe for the global insurance industry, rising sea levels are driving up expected economic and insurance...
Aug 18 2015 // The Hilb Group LLC announced today that it acquired JWB Insurance Group, an independent agency in Wilmington, North Carolina. The transaction became effective Aug. 1, 2015. The terms of the deal were not...
Aug 17 2015 // Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin says employers in the state will see an estimated $43 million reduction in workers’ compensation premiums in the coming year. Tomblin says employers have saved more than $323 million since the...
Aug 13 2015 // West Virginia’s new state program requires criminal background checks for applicants seeking certain jobs at long-term care facilities.Health and Human Resources Secretary Karen L. Bowling announced the launch of the...
Aug 12 2015 // The Main Street America Group announced the introduction of Main Street Protection Auto, its new private passenger auto insurance program for Virginia via its statewide network of independent insurance agents.Product...
Aug 6 2015 // West Virginia’s Department of Transportation has purchased its second drone. The Charleston Gazette reports that the $3,500 drone will be used to help provide views of hard-to-reach or inaccessible areas. Department...
Aug 4 2015 // A state agency spokesman says a fire in Harpers Ferry, W. Va.’s, commercial area began on the rear patio of a business.Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety spokesman Lawrence Messina tells The Herald-Mail...
Aug 3 2015 // Prosecutors say in court documents that evidence about the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster is a necessary part of the government’s criminal case against former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship.The Charleston...
Aug 3 2015 // Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin says employers in the state will see an estimated $43 million reduction in workers’ compensation premiums in the coming year.Tomblin says employers have saved more than $323 million since the...
Aug 3 2015 // A bankruptcy judge has approved a $2.5 million deal involving the cleanup of a massive 2014 chemical spill in West Virginia.The order July 8 by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Ronald Pearson says the agreement is in the best...
Jul 30 2015 // A state fire official says a fire in’s Harpers Ferry, W. Va.’s commercial area caused about $2 million in damage.Assistant state fire marshal George Harms tells The Herald-Mail that the cause of the fire...
Jul 28 2015 // The commercial area in historic Harpers Ferry, W. Va., was devastated July 23 when a fire destroyed a building that housed at least a half dozen businesses, Mayor Gregory Vaughn said.He said a long building that extended...
Jul 28 2015 // Attorneys for former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship want evidence about the 2010 explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia kept out of his criminal trial this fall.The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the...