All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 8 2011 // By a lopsided margin, the Republican-ruled Virginia House of Delegates has rejected Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell’s veto of a bill that would boost the limit on court awards on medical malpractice lawsuits.McDonnell...
Apr 8 2011 // The doors of West Virginia volunteer fire departments will stay open thanks to a new law that will help offset their workers’ compensation costs.West Virginia Acting Governor Earl Ray Tomblin has sign into law the...
Apr 4 2011 // Dangerous Dams“Failure of one of these dams could result in loss of life or significant property damage.” —Peter Richardson, senior vice president of the Boston Society for Civil Engineers, commenting on...
Apr 4 2011 // A West Virginia risk pool created to provide property and liability coverage to counties around the state is looking to expand into workers’ compensation. The West Virginia Counties Group Self-Insurance Risk Pool,...
Apr 1 2011 // Gov. Bob McDonnell has vetoed bills that would have increased the maximum damage award for a medical malpractice lawsuit from $2 million to $3 million and would have stiffened penalties for environmental...
Mar 29 2011 // A West Virginia risk pool created to provide property and liability coverage to counties around the state is looking to expand into workers’ compensation. The West Virginia Counties Group Self-Insurance Risk Pool...
Mar 22 2011 // Pennsylvania-based Keystone Insurers Group said it has added CSE Agency Inc. and CSE Financial Services Inc., of Virginia, as a franchise partner. CSE Agency and CSE Financial Services were established in 1994 following...
Mar 22 2011 // Federal prosecutors want to block Massey Energy Co. shareholders from reviewing documents gathered during civil and criminal investigations into last April’s deadly explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West...
Mar 21 2011 // A jury awarded a former shipyard employee $25 million Thursday in his lawsuit against Exxon for asbestos-related medical problems.The verdict, which followed a two-week Circuit Court trial, was one of the largest jury...
Mar 21 2011 // Soft Ending“For commercial lines, what we’re seeing is we’re still seeing declines in premiums year-over-year, but what we’re looking at is a point and a half whereas a year ago we might have been...
Mar 21 2011 // The company created by West Virginia to provide workers’ compensation insurance no longer wants to cover state agencies, prompting lawmakers to consider alternative policy options.The Senate Finance Committee learned...
Mar 11 2011 // The West Virginia Supreme Court is being encouraged to create a new system to consider all business-related lawsuits.The recommendation comes from a six-member committee the court appointed last year in response to...
Mar 10 2011 // The company created by West Virginia to provide workers’ compensation insurance no longer wants to cover state agencies, prompting lawmakers to consider alternative policy options.The Senate Finance Committee learned...
Mar 8 2011 // The families of two coal miners killed in the Upper Big Branch mine blast in West Virginia last year filed wrongful death lawsuits against the mine’s owner, Massey Energy Co, saying it was a “catastrophe...
Mar 8 2011 // With the Legislature’s minority Republicans already opposing the pending bill, West Virginia’s independent insurance agents are wary of this session’s bid to create a state-run health insurance...
Mar 7 2011 // Rising seas spurred by climate change could threaten 180 U.S. coastal cities by 2100, a new study says, with Miami, New Orleans and Virginia Beach among those most severely affected.Previous studies have looked at where...
Mar 7 2011 // Rising seas spurred by climate change could threaten 180 U.S. coastal cities by 2100, a new study says, with Miami, New Orleans and Virginia Beach among those most severely affected.Previous studies have looked at where...
Mar 7 2011 // Restaurant industry sales are expected to reach a record $604 billion and post positive growth in 2011 after a three-year period of negative real sales growth. The 2011 forecast from the National Restaurant Association...
Mar 4 2011 // West Virginia lawmakers appear willing to help the state’s volunteer fire departments with their workers’ compensation expenses.The House and Senate exchanged bills this week that would dedicate insurance...
Mar 3 2011 // A Tennessee judge has set May 16 as the final date to resolve all outstanding claims against three insolvent risk retention groups that were closed in 2003 after the failure of their Virginia reinsurer, Reciprocal of...