All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 18 2014 // Charleston, West Virginia-based Freedom Industries can expect about 5,000 groups to ask for money in bankruptcy claims over the January chemical spill that seeped into West Virginia’s biggest water supply. The...
Aug 15 2014 // Former Mountain State University students who sued the now-defunct Beckley, West Virginia school would be entitled to compensation under a tentative settlement announced this week.The proposed settlement announced by...
Aug 14 2014 // The Virginia Department of Transportation is working to make roads safer for both wildlife and motorists.The agency’s research division is conducting a three-year study on animal travel patterns that is set to be...
Aug 14 2014 // Homeowners with poor credit pay 91 percent more for homeowners’ insurance than people with excellent credit, according to a study by an online insurance shopping service.The report by insuranceQuotes.com also found...
Aug 13 2014 // Federal health officials are outlining new studies on the chemicals that spilled into West Virginia’s largest drinking water supply. The National Toxicology Program said in a memo that potential pregnancy and liver...
Aug 12 2014 // The ridesharing company Uber is launching in Richmond, Virginia.The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that the company began offering service in the city last Thursday. The move comes after Virginia decided to allow Uber and...
Aug 12 2014 // When coal-cleaning chemicals seeped into West Virginia’s biggest water supply in January, the city of Cincinnati had a decision to make 200 miles downstream.As the city feared, a sheet of contaminants cruised down...
Aug 11 2014 // The state of West Virginia is seeking $1.8 million from the bankrupt company that spilled chemicals into the state’s largest water supply.Attorney General Patrick Morrisey filed the claim in bankruptcy court in...
Aug 7 2014 // Virginia is allowing ridesharing companies Uber and Lyft to operate under a temporary agreement between the companies and the state, officials said Wednesday.The move follows letters from state officials in June telling...
Aug 6 2014 // Virginia’s State Corporation Commission (SCC) has scheduled an October hearing to consider a request filed by the National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc. (NCCI) to adjust the premium levels charged for...
Aug 4 2014 // Former West Virginia Governor W. Gaston Caperton III has joined USI Insurance Services as a senior advisor to help the broker expand in West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia.The 32nd governor of West Virginia will also help...
Aug 3 2014 // The Obama administration asked the full U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington to reconsider a three- judge panel’s ruling that customers on the federal marketplace authorized by the healthcare overhaul are ineligible...
Aug 1 2014 // Time is running out for residents and businesses affected by a January chemical spill in Charleston to file claims in federal bankruptcy court.Claims must be filed with U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Charleston by today, Aug.1 ....
Jul 30 2014 // The company that spilled chemicals into West Virginia’s largest water supply has paid an $11,000 fine for a pair of violations.The Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined Freedom...
Jul 29 2014 // A board tasked with compiling a list of animals that are illegal to keep as pets in West Virginia will consider one that’s shorter than a list suggested earlier.Media outlets report the state Wild and Dangerous...
Jul 29 2014 // U.S. workplaces may need to consider innovative methods to prevent fatigue from developing in employees who are obese. Based on results from a study published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene...
Jul 25 2014 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) has filed a proposed reduction in workers’ compensation loss cost rates in West Virginia – the tenth reduction in 10 years.NCCI, West Virginia’s rating...
Jul 23 2014 // The U.S. Supreme Court may not be done with Obamacare yet.With appellate courts reaching opposite conclusions on the same day about a crucial financing provision of the 2010 law, a third showdown before the justices is...
Jul 23 2014 // The West Virginia Fire Marshal’s Office is accusing members of a volunteer fire department in Wharton with forging state documents.The office said it has filed felony criminal complaints against fire officer Ira Rash...
Jul 22 2014 // Two U.S. appeals courts reached opposite conclusions on the legality of a key financing provision of the Affordable Care Act, increasing the chance of another showdown at the Supreme Court over President Barack...