All the headlines from our West Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 14 2008 // Complaints about North Dakota’s Workforce Safety and Insurance (WSI) agency may not translate into support for making WSI a private business and allowing competition from other insurers, state lawmakers say.The...
Jul 14 2008 // A judge in West Virginia reduced by more than half a jury’s multimillion-dollar award to a Charleston surgeon whose hospital privileges were wrongfully revoked.A Kanawha County jury in February awarded Dr. R.E....
Jul 9 2008 // West Virginia boaters who like a few drinks while out on the lakes or rivers will have to take it easy if a proposed rule change goes through.The state Division of Natural Resources wants to lower the legal blood alcohol...
Jul 7 2008 // All of West Virginia employers, other than governmental entities, on July 1 gained the advantage of being able to shop their workers’ compensation coverage among carriers in a competitive market.Insurance...
Jul 3 2008 // The West Virginia Supreme Court has revived a pair of lawsuits seeking damages from timber, mining and land companies for devastating 2001 floods.The court reinstated a 2006 jury verdict that improper logging practices...
Jul 3 2008 // Contract negotiations have resumed between The Greenbrier and its unions with a meeting resort spokeswoman Lynn Swann called productive.Representatives of the posh White Sulphur Springs resort and the Council of Labor...
Jun 30 2008 // As gas prices soar, the costs of running a volunteer fire department are rising. Now West Virginia legislature and the counties are debating over who will pay the rising costs of the state’s 424 volunteer...
Jun 30 2008 // All of West Virginia employers, other than governmental entities, can for the first time, shop their workers’ compensation coverage among carriers in a competitive market.Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline said all...
Jun 30 2008 // West Virginia Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline, approved West Virginia Mutual Insurance Co.’s request to repay $8 million on an outstanding balance of the $16 million surplus note it owes the state.The state...
Jun 27 2008 // The sole provider of workers’ compensation insurance in West Virginia plans to make an early $60 million payment on a $200 million startup loan from the state. Greg Burton, BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co.’s...
Jun 26 2008 // Ten current and former homeowners in a Charles Town, W.Va. subdivision are suing a builder and subcontractors, claiming the company failed to install functional radon removal systems.In one instance, the homeowners contend...
Jun 25 2008 // The federal government approved disaster assistance for a majority of the West Virginia counties Gov. Joe Manchin requested after severe weather caused significant damage in the state from June 3 through June 7.The...
Jun 23 2008 // President Bush approved federal disaster assistance for 10 West Virginia counties hit by severe weather earlier this month. State Homeland Security Director Jimmy Gianato said June 19 that assistance to individuals and...
Jun 19 2008 // A West Virginia court indicted a Welch, W.Va. man on two felony counts of filing a false claim with an insurance company, according to Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline. A Mercer County Grand Jury indicted Aaron D....
Jun 19 2008 // The West Virginia Division of Highways says it will cost at least $4.5 million to repair highways damaged by flooding earlier this month.DOH spokeswoman Karen Zamow says the estimate covers damage in 13 counties in...
Jun 19 2008 // Nationwide Insurance will open a consolidated state claims office in Kanawha County in July. Nationwide spokeswoman Liz Christopher said June 17 that five claims offices with 72 employees statewide will be moved to one...
Jun 16 2008 // The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration is taking a stab at requiring airtight emergency refuges in the nation’s 624 underground coal mines.Mine operators can either store building materials underground,...
Jun 16 2008 // A labor dispute has cost The Greenbrier a conference that’s been held annually at the four-star resort in West Virginia for more than 90 years. The Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers announced June 2 that it...
Jun 12 2008 // Police in Morgantown, West Virginia have a new tool for fighting crime.City-owned surveillance cameras will be tied in with privately owned security systems to create a new surveillance network that covers much of the...
Jun 11 2008 // Government experts are examining a locomotive involved in a fatal accident at a West Virginia coal mine June 5.Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training spokeswoman Jama Jarrett says the state is testing the...