All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 13 2013 // A new labor union report says 43 workers were killed on the job in 2011 in West Virginia, down from 95 the previous year that included a mine blast that killed 29. According to the report by the AFL-CIO, there were 4,693...
May 13 2013 // A federal jury in West Virginia has convicted a Logan County man of burning his duplex to collect insurance money. U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin said on that 58-year-old Michael L. White of Chapmanville, W. Va., was found...
May 10 2013 // West Virginia’s Homer Laughlin China Co. is suing two companies for selling what it claims are cheap Chinese imitations of its popular and collectible Fiesta dinnerware to an unsuspecting public.The Weirton Daily...
May 8 2013 // The Virginia Farm Bureau has launched a website for reporting farm accidents.The site, FarmAccidentReport.com, allows anyone to report accidents they witness on Virginia farms. Jimmy Maass is the Farm Bureau’s safety...
May 7 2013 // In the first 10 months since a West Virginia law banned driving while texting or talking on a hand-held cell phone, 125 offenders have been convicted of doing just that.The Charleston Gazette said the number of convictions...
May 1 2013 // As mineworkers and retirees battle to salvage their pensions and benefits from the bankruptcy of Patriot Coal Corp., lawyers for their union are trying an unusual gambit – and one that may be a test case for...
Apr 24 2013 // The Hilb Group announced last week the acquisition of Engle, Paxson & Hawthorne Insurance Services (EPH) of Leesburg, Va. The transaction was effective April 1, 2013.Founded over a century ago, EPH serves residents...
Apr 22 2013 // Few states spend as much on health care as West Virginia, but you wouldn’t know it from the results.That has a new study urging major changes, both for health services generally and the government agency that helps...
Apr 22 2013 // State Farm says the most common homeowner insurance claims in West Virginia are from wind and hail damage. The insurance company says there were nearly 4,400 such claims in the state last year. State Farm says the average...
Apr 16 2013 // Circuit Court Judge Thomas Evans III has been appointed to the West Virginia court system’s Business Court Division.The West Virginia Supreme Court said Chief Justice Brent Benjamin named Evans to replace former...
Apr 15 2013 // A 100-car “naturalistic” driving study conducted by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute says that fatigue is a cause of 20 percent of car crashes, rather than the two or three percent previously...
Apr 15 2013 // The West Virginia legislature has moved to limit the liability that nursing homes can face in potential lawsuits. The bill passed unanimously Saturday by the House explicitly applies the state’s Medical Professional...
Apr 11 2013 // A.M. Best Co. said Wednesday it has downgraded the financial strength rating of Virginia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. in Richmond, Va., and its subsidiaries to B++ (Good) from A- (Excellent).Additionally, Oldwick,...
Apr 8 2013 // Strickland Insurance Brokers Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Goldsboro, N.C.-based Strickland Insurance Group Inc., announced it has acquired the assets of Palmyra, Va.-based Tower Transportation Underwriters Inc.Tower...
Apr 8 2013 // Strickland Insurance Brokers of Goldsboro, North Carolina has acquired the assets of Palmyra, Virginia-based Tower Transportation Underwriters Inc. Tower Underwriters, owned by Fred Black, is a managing general agency in...
Apr 8 2013 // As West Virginians marked the third anniversary of an explosion that killed 29 coal miners Friday, congressional Democrats called the lack of action on tougher mine safety legislation “shameful.”Gov. Earl Ray...
Apr 1 2013 // A workers’ compensation auditor and four coal company contractors in West Virginia have pleaded guilty to federal charges in a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme.Federal prosecutors said that Arville Sargent pleaded...
Mar 28 2013 // West Virginia Senate President Jeffrey Kessler says a bill that would eliminate municipal gun restrictions in four cities is unlikely to proceed.The bill passed the House with overwhelming support and recent rallies have...
Mar 28 2013 // West Virginia’s House of Delegates is back on track to vote on whether to allow traffic stops for failure to wear a seat belt.Legislation making that violation a primary offense has idled since the House Judiciary...
Mar 27 2013 // Richmond, Va.-headquartered Markel Corporation announced that Mike Scyphers has been promoted to chief information officer. Scyphers is an information technology industry veteran with 23 years of experience who has been...