All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 3 2012 // Virginia authorities announced a local insurance agent is facing a handful of federal charges related to fraud. Graham Hutson Messer, 32, of Bremo Bluff, Va., was charged in a sealed indictment returned Sept.12, 2012 and...
Oct 2 2012 // BrickStreet Insurance is still the dominant workers’ compensation insurer in West Virginia, despite competition from more than 200 other companies.The Legislature created BrickStreet in 2005 to replace what had been...
Sep 27 2012 // Richmond, Va.-headquartered Markel Corporation announced two appointments within its product line leadership group.Michael Vought, managing director of excess & umbrella within Markel’s product line leadership...
Sep 26 2012 // Ames & Gough, an insurance broker and risk management consultant specializing in serving design professionals, law firms and other professional organizations and consulting firms, appointed Amy Hotaling as vice...
Sep 26 2012 // Kanawha County, West Virginia, officials are refusing to give taxpayer funds to five volunteer fire departments that haven’t shared their financial statements with the County Commission.The commission voted last year...
Sep 19 2012 // A Richmond woman has been sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison for health care fraud and other offenses. A federal judge last Thursday also ordered Veronica Sharon Cunningham to pay more than $6.6 million in...
Sep 19 2012 // The West Virginia Supreme Court says the newly created business court division will be headquartered in Martinsburg.Officials said the headquarters for the new system for business-related lawsuits will be located at the...
Sep 13 2012 // A couple of years ago, Hesham Rakha misjudged a yellow traffic light and entered an intersection just as the light turned red. A police officer handed him a ticket.“There are circumstances, as you approach a yellow...
Sep 13 2012 // The state Supreme Court will debut a business court division next month, taking often-complicated disputes out of a hectic circuit court system, Chief Justice Robin Davis said this week.The business court that will start...
Sep 12 2012 // The state Supreme Court is set to discuss a court system for business-related lawsuits.An announcement was scheduled for Tuesday afternoon in the Supreme Court chambers in Charleston. Earlier this year the court asked for...
Sep 4 2012 // Insurance giant GEICO is going to become a lot more familiar to travelers who visit Virginia’s 43 Interstate rest stops, the Virginia Department of Transportation announced last Thursday.The company has signed on to...
Aug 31 2012 // West Virginia regulators recently launched an online, interactive homeowner’s inventory chart. Available for free from the W.V. Offices of Insurance Commissioner, it offers a convenient way for homeowners to list...
Aug 21 2012 // The widows of two West Virginia coal miners killed in a 2006 fire want the state Supreme Court to rule that private and federal mine safety inspectors can be held legally liable when workers die as a result of their...
Aug 20 2012 // West Virginia employers’ rates for workers’ compensation are heading down again after regulators approved a statewide average 9.1 percent decrease in loss cost rates.Insurance Commissioner Michael D. Riley...
Aug 16 2012 // West Virginia continues to issue new driver’s licenses that meet national standards adopted after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, amid a refusal by a number of other states to carry out the federal Real ID law, Deputy...
Aug 13 2012 // A Schuyler, Virginia, woman convicted of selling fake insurance policies will spend more than two years in prison. Forty-year-old Mae Anne Fattaleh also must pay more than $100,000 in restitution. The Daily Progress...
Aug 9 2012 // Crashes happen every day.Most of the time, they are simple fender benders and those involved own up to their mistakes. Sometimes, there are witnesses who can fill in the blanks. Other times, however, drivers disagree about...
Aug 6 2012 // West Virginia health officials believe three people died as a result of derecho storm that swept through the state during a major heat wave in June. Dr. Marian Swinker, state commissioner for public health, says a review...
Aug 6 2012 // P/C Insurers’ Strength“Not a single traditional P/C insurer or reinsurer failed as a result of the financial crisis, nor did a single legitimate claim go unpaid. In contrast, during the financial crisis and its...
Aug 6 2012 // The West Virginia Supreme Court has set a Oct. 17 date to consider whether Mine Safety and Health Administration inspectors can be held liable for coal miners’ deaths.A federal appeals court in Richmond last month...