All the headlines from our West Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 24 2009 // West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin believes the parties in a dispute over the state’s home rule experiment are close to resolving their differences.Manchin spokesman Matt Turner says meetings recently convened by the...
Aug 19 2009 // Attention all you insurance industry golfers filling out your gift lists: the birthplace of American golf is up for sale.Lewis Keller, the owner of West Virginia’s Oakhurst Links, says that after 50 years, it’s...
Aug 11 2009 // The West Virginia Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating a blaze that destroyed four coal trucks and damaged a fifth truck in McDowell County.State Homeland Security and Emergency Management Director Jimmy Gianato...
Aug 10 2009 // Out of concern that a dispute over a local West Virginia insurance ordinance in the city of Huntington could jeopardize home rule pilot programs across the state, Gov. Joe Manchin met with city, state and insurance...
Aug 6 2009 // West Virginia Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline has approved a loss cost filing by the state’s workers’ compensation insurance companies that will result in an overall six percent decrease.She said more than...
Aug 3 2009 // Property insurance companies in West Virginia are caught between a rock and a hard place over an ordinance in the city of Huntington that forces them to pay funds on some total fire losses to the city rather than directly...
Aug 3 2009 // A Memphis insurance claims firm wants the more than $1 million that it was supposed to receive from West Virginia, but that was instead diverted in an apparent Africa-based fraud scheme, state lawmakers learned...
Aug 3 2009 // The property/casualty insurance industry, whose employees do their share of volunteer work and whose financial contributions support many charities, occasionally finds itself involved involuntarily in efforts to improve...
Jul 31 2009 // For at least five years before Rebecca Morlock noticed what she calls “a green goo” seeping out of the ground below a former zinc-smelting plant in the town of Spelter, water loaded with potentially toxic heavy...
Jul 30 2009 // A truck operator killed at a West Virginia surface mine on Tuesday has been identified.State mine agency spokeswoman Jama Jarrett said Wednesday that 28-year-old Mark Gray of Belle died Tuesday when his truck backed into a...
Jul 28 2009 // A state lawmaker is urging Huntington to scrap an ordinance that has prompted a court challenge to West Virginia’s experiment with home rule.Delegate Jim Morgan, a Cabell County Democrat, wants the city to withdraw a...
Jul 21 2009 // Property insurance companies in West Virginia are finding themselves caught between a rock and a hard place over an ordinance in the city of Huntington that forces them to pay funds on some total fire losses to the city...
Jul 21 2009 // A Memphis insurance claims firm wants the more than $1 million that it was supposed to receive from West Virginia, but that was instead diverted in an apparent Africa-based fraud scheme, state lawmakers learned...
Jul 20 2009 // $750,000The proposed reduced limit on coastal insurance available from the North Carolina Beach Plan under legislation designed to address the over-exposure and under-funding of this state-backed plan. The limit is now $1...
Jul 20 2009 // Focus Holdings, Capacity InsuranceFocus Holdings, LLC in Sunrise, Florida, closed on its acquisition of Capacity Insurance Co. (CIC), a Florida domestic commercial lines insurer, effective July 1, 2009. Focus, better known...
Jul 14 2009 // Recent hearings may not keep West Virginia’s Public Employees Insurance Agency out of court over a proposal to stop subsidizing retiree health care, one advocate for state workers says.The American Federation of...
Jul 7 2009 // West Virginia Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline says her state’s one-year old privatized workers’ compensation system is offering better claims administration, lower costs for employers and better treatment...
Jul 6 2009 // A federal judge has denied a convicted West Virginia physician’s request for a new trial. Dr. John C. Sharp of Marlinton was convicted last year on 29 counts of health care fraud for billing insurers for services he...
Jul 2 2009 // Workers’ compensation insurer BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co. says it has completed an early payoff on a $200 million startup loan from West Virginia. President and Chief Executive Officer Greg Burton says the...
Jun 30 2009 // After years of Dunloup Creek in West Virginia’s Fayette County constantly flooding, officials think they’ve found a solution: abandon the region.The federal Natural Resources Conservation Service and the...