All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 22 2013 // A handful of bills proposed in Oregon could hit consumers with nearly $200 million in cost increases and yield a rash of lawsuits, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, which is urging Oregon...
Mar 20 2013 // A West Virginia Senate committee advanced a bill this week that would likely increase car insurance premiums for drivers who can least afford it, but also expand liability coverage for the highest-risk drivers.The bill...
Mar 15 2013 // Under legislation debated this week, West Virginia drivers could have their licenses revoked for refusing to take a blood test after they’re arrested. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin proposed the bill to try to crack down on...
Mar 13 2013 // In West Virginia and most other states, an insurer can choose not to renew people’s property insurance policy if a claim is filed over weather damage.A West Virginia Senate bill that would ban that practice was...
Mar 8 2013 // As states take measures to keep drivers from texting and talking while driving, a new report from researchers at the West Virginia University School of Public Health asserts the laws probably aren’t having much...
Mar 8 2013 // A limit would be placed on the amount nursing homes would be forced to pay if sued under a bill passed by the West Virginia Senate this week.The measure explicitly includes nursing homes under the protections of a 2003 law...
Mar 7 2013 // The West Virginia Senate unanimously passed a bill that would ensure that property owners face very limited liability from trespassers on their land.In general, common law states that property owners cannot be sued by...
Mar 6 2013 // The West Virginia Senate is weighing a bill that would ensure that property owners face very limited liability from trespassers on their land.In general, common law states that property owners cannot be sued by trespassers...
Mar 1 2013 // Speaker Rick Thompson and other West Virginia House leaders have proposed a study of whether the recently revised process for handling civil appeals ensures a full and fair review, amid calls for expanding the...
Feb 28 2013 // The Virginia State Police Insurance Fraud Program announced it is continuing to make inroads in the fight against the crime of insurance fraud as indicated by the statistics in the just released 2012 annual report.In 2012,...
Feb 28 2013 // West Virginia University’s College of Business and Economics has received the largest gift in its history. The university said that the BrickStreet Insurance Foundation donated $3 million to the college’s...
Feb 28 2013 // State inspectors have issued 45 violations at a West Virginia coal mine since two men died there earlier this month, including one for negligently rigging the switch on a hoist with a piece of wood and a rusty bolt,...
Feb 26 2013 // Motorists and passengers in rural Virginia are less likely to wear seat belts than those in other parts of the state, statewide surveys show. They also are more at risk of dying in traffic accidents, according to analysis...
Feb 22 2013 // West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin on Wednesday asked coal companies to halt production for an hour to review safety procedures following the state’s fourth mining fatality in two weeks and the sixth since...
Feb 19 2013 // The Missouri Department of Insurance announced that Missouri consumers who bought travel insurance from Virginia Surety Co. or through Cheap Caribbean, one of its contracted agencies, may be entitled to a refund.A joint...
Feb 13 2013 // West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin has yet to decide whether to open the Medicaid program to more lower-income residents, or how individuals and small businesses will seek coverage through the federal health care...
Feb 11 2013 // The Hilb Group, a Richmond, Va.-based insurance broker, announced the acquisition of The Pennoyer Group from its shareholders. The transaction was effective Jan. 31, 2013. Pennoyer was founded in 1978 by Paul Pennoyer and...
Feb 8 2013 // West Virginia regulators have revised a proposed rule that would increase fines for mine safety and health violations.The original proposal would have raised the civil penalties across the board. The revised rule filed...
Feb 7 2013 // Private and federal mine safety inspectors can be held liable and sued when a negligent inspection results in the wrongful death of a coal miner, the state Supreme Court ruled in handing a victory to the widows of two men...
Feb 5 2013 // State standards aimed at reducing buildups of explosive coal dust in underground mines but regulators haven’t been enforced in West Virginia.More than a fifth of the more than 5,500 dust samples taken from mines by...