All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 2 2014 // GEICO has announced a number of officer appointments: Michelle Trindade, vice president of the competitive advantage leadership group at the company’s corporate offices in Chevy Chase, Maryland, Kevin Kawa, assistant...
Jul 1 2014 // The fidgety patient stood a bit too close to the counter at DownHome Pharmacy in Roanoke, Virginia, and chatted a bit too eagerly.She had no insurance, she said, and would be paying cash for her prescription for Norco, a...
Jun 27 2014 // Freedom Industries Inc., the chemical company that filed for bankruptcy after a leaky storage tank tainted the water supply in West Virginia, was ordered to do a better job of keeping the public informed.In a court filing...
Jun 26 2014 // A federal lawsuit blames a Charleston airport runway project for the January chemical spill that left 300,000 residents without clean water for days.The lawsuit says Yeager Airport’s completed runway extension never...
Jun 24 2014 // For the West Virginia company that sullied 300,000 people’s drinking water to start the year, slip-ups like not reading emails and leaving the company chemical headquarters unattended have produced problems for...
Jun 20 2014 // The West Virginia Supreme Court has slashed by more than half the multimillion-dollar damages a jury levied against a Charleston nursing home in connection with a former resident’s death.In a 76-page divided opinion...
Jun 16 2014 // Local cyclists seem to generally approve of new traffic laws in West Virginia to protect them, though many say the increasing number of riders on city streets already has created something of a truce with motorists.The new...
Jun 16 2014 // A Charleston company faces state violations after a storm water collection trench overflowed at the same site where chemicals spilled into West Virginia’s largest water supply in January.The Department of...
Jun 16 2014 // Industry groups are jittery that if state regulators require the wrong type of permit, companies could be subject to citizen lawsuits under a new environmental law that regulates storage tanks.State regulators disagree,...
Jun 13 2014 // Before dawn on Feb. 23, Darius Williams ran his Nissan Sentra off a North Carolina interstate at 80 miles per hour. A length of guardrail pierced his door, according to the police report, driving the 24-year-old’s...
Jun 9 2014 // Beacon Hill Associates Inc., a wholesale insurance broker and program administrator based in Charlottesville, Virginia, has hired Ursula Knowles as assistant vice president, information development. Knowles will be...
Jun 6 2014 // Geico plans to hire 350 additional workers at its regional office in Stafford County, Virginia, by the end of the year.The Free Lance-Star reports that Geico officials announced the expansion Wednesday during a celebration...
Jun 4 2014 // The West Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles says some changes in laws will affect motorists starting this week. One new law allows DUI offenders to get on the ignition interlock program immediately if they do not...
Jun 4 2014 // Secretary of State Natalie Tennant’s office has removed all business filings from its website after one displayed an individual’s Social Security number.Tennant told WCHS-TV that the image displaying the number...
Jun 2 2014 // Sunday, June 1, marked the official start of the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season, and Virginia’s Bureau of Insurance is encouraging consumers to ensure that they have the insurance coverage they need and to develop a...
Jun 2 2014 // Three more defendants in a $1 million arson insurance scheme in Logan, West Virginia, have been sentenced to prison. U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin said the three were sentenced to a total of 25 years in prison for their...
Jun 2 2014 // Months after state officials approved a law to safeguard against chemical spills, West Virginia industry groups want some requirements delayed and some of their storage tanks shielded from added oversight.Though the new...
Jun 2 2014 // Employers in Virginia who fail to provide workers’ compensation insurance for their employees will be assessed, beginning July, a civil penalty of up to $250 per day for each day of noncompliance, subject to a...
May 30 2014 // A West Virginia website will provide information and online registration for aboveground storage tank owners to comply with a new law.The site explains the law written in response to a January chemical spill. The...
May 27 2014 // A West Virginia insurance agent and a building owner were sentenced in federal court last week in connection with a Logan arson scheme.U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin said that James Gregory Glick, 44, of Logan, was sentenced...