All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 29 2013 // State regulators are investigating spills from a drilling operation in West Virginia’s Ohio County that damaged a house and entered a creek.More than 6,000 gallons of water and a non-toxic clay mixture called...
Oct 28 2013 // D.A. Gohil’s family is still rebuilding its convenience store business in Nicholas County, a year after Superstorm Sandy buried parts of West Virginia in wet, heavy snow that collapsed roofs and pulled down power...
Oct 21 2013 // A Chinese drywall manufacturer asked a federal appeals court on Oct. 9 to overturn a judge’s ruling that U.S. courts have jurisdiction over claims that its defective product wrecked thousands of homes.A three-judge...
Oct 17 2013 // A federal investigation into a multi-million-dollar workers’ compensation scheme extended to the Bank of Mingo in southern West Virginia, where authorities seized computer hard drives and documents.FBI Special Agent...
Oct 11 2013 // A Chinese drywall manufacturer asked a federal appeals court on Oct. 9 to overturn a judge’s ruling that U.S. courts have jurisdiction over claims that its defective product wrecked thousands of homes.A three-judge...
Oct 10 2013 // A $1 million malpractice civil lawsuit against a prominent Culpeper doctor has resulted in a hung jury.Jurors told the Culpeper County Circuit Court judge on Oct. 3 that they were at a standstill after 11 hours of...
Oct 9 2013 // Seven Virginia families fighting for compensation over Chinese drywall that wrecked their homes have their eyes on Louisiana this week, where a federal appeals court will hear arguments over whether the manufacturer of the...
Oct 4 2013 // A West Virginia man and two Kentucky residents have been sentenced for their roles in a workers’ compensation scheme.The Charleston Gazette reported that Jerome Edward Russell of Williamson, Frelin R. Workman of...
Oct 2 2013 // The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) has new national officers. Each will serve one-year terms that began on Oct. 1, 2013, and run through September 30, 2014.John G. Lee, of Fredericksburg,...
Oct 1 2013 // The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety expects to complete a $30 million expansion at its Ruckersville campus by late 2014.Construction of new vehicle testing facilities began in March. The project includes a larger...
Oct 1 2013 // West Virginia higher education officials are considering a campus safety rule that establishes policies and procedures addressing four-year institutions’ planning and response to natural disasters, shootings or other...
Sep 30 2013 // West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Robin Davis criticized her colleagues in a dissenting opinion Friday for refusing to let institutional shareholders revive a lawsuit filed against the former Massey Energy two weeks...
Sep 27 2013 // The Virginia State Police is joining with Nationwide Insurance to help protect public safety personnel and all those who drive tow trucks and road maintenance vehicles.They have joined together to promote Virginia’s...
Sep 27 2013 // U.S. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia broke ranks with fellow Democrats and said he’d support a stopgap spending plan that delays the individual mandate in President Barack Obama’s health-care...
Sep 18 2013 // Using Facebook Inc.’s “Like” feature to show support for a candidate in an election is speech protected under the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court said, handing a victory to the social...
Sep 17 2013 // State highway officials say West Virginia’s bridges are safe despite dozens that are both in disrepair and at risk of collapse if hit hard enough in the wrong place.An Associated Press review of federal records found...
Sep 16 2013 // The state Supreme Court has denied a bid by institutional shareholders in the former Massey Energy Co. to revive a lawsuit they filed two weeks after the Upper Big Branch mine disaster.In an order released Friday, the...
Sep 13 2013 // A major storm and settlements of inmate lawsuits contributed to a nearly $20 million increase in the West Virginia Board of Risk and Insurance Management’s claims expenses.The agency’s annual report shows that...
Sep 10 2013 // Municipalities in West Virginia are asking lawmakers for help in their battle against blight.A resolution endorsed by the West Virginia Municipal League earlier this year at its annual conference seeks an amendment to the...
Sep 9 2013 // They weren’t exposed to anywhere near the same level of ash, grit and fumes, but emergency workers who rushed to the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania countryside on 9/11 are signing up for the same compensation and...