All the headlines from our West Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 14 2008 // Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corp. of America and a former subsidiary have agreed to settle 70 lawsuits alleging malpractice by a former West Virginia physician.The total amount of the settlements and attorneys’...
Mar 12 2008 // The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration has given West Virginia about $544,000 for mine safety training. The grant is part of more than $8 million the agency is providing nationally for training in 49 states and...
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Mar 10 2008 // West Virginians could wield deadly force against intruders or attackers under a measure now before the governor. The House approved a Senate-passed bill that embraces the so-called “Castle Doctrine,” which...
Mar 6 2008 // Elevator safety and licensing rules recommended by a recent legislative audit and passed by the West Virginia House disguise a bid by the industry’s union to preserve and enhance its share of the market, the...
Mar 6 2008 // West Virginia’s spring forest fire season is under way.Through May 31, outdoor burning is prohibited between the hours of 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. The chances of a fire escaping in the evening and overnight hours is reduced...
Mar 6 2008 // Emergency officials are keeping an eye on the Greenbrier and Ohio rivers after heavy rains moved across West Virginia.The National Weather Service issued a flood warning for the Greenbrier River at Alderson from Wednesday...
Mar 4 2008 // West Virginia officials arrested a Crown City, Ohio, man on one felony count of filing a fraudulent claim with an insurance company, according to Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline.Cline said Christopher S. Drummond,...
Mar 3 2008 // Investigators with the West Virginia Fire Marshal’s Office were sifting through ashes, trying to determine what sparked a fire that severely damaged the oldest house in Greenbrier County.The fire broke out around 7...
Feb 28 2008 // The West Virginia Senate has agreed to help cities and towns with their police and firefighter pension funds, partly by reversing a recent tax break on consumer insurance costs.The state would restore a 1 percent surcharge...
Feb 27 2008 // A circuit judge in West Virginia has upheld a $196.2 million punitive damages award against DuPont in a class-action pollution case.Harrison County Circuit Court Chief Judge Thomas A. Bedell also ordered the Wilmington,...
Feb 21 2008 // A Kanawha County, W. Va., man, who was indicted on a felony count of submitting a fraudulent insurance claim to an insurance company pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of one misdemeanor count of insurance fraud, according...
Feb 15 2008 // W. Va. Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline announced that a West Hamlin man who was indicted on several felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud, pleaded guilty to the charges in Kanawha County Circuit...
Jan 29 2008 // West Virginia officials arrested a Boone County man for insurance fraud late last month. West Virginia State Police arrested Mathew J. Harrison, 27, of Bim, W. Va., on Dec. 21, 2007, and charged him with five felony counts...
Jan 28 2008 // Federal researchers have concluded that airtight refuge chambers could save trapped miners and merit installation in the nation’s 731 underground coal mines.National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health...
Jan 23 2008 // The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the death of a man at a McDowell County, W. Va., metal processing plant. Authorities say 46-year-old Mohegan, W. Va., resident Robert Lee Pack died...
Jan 23 2008 // West Virginia officials said a Braxton County man pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of fraudulent schemes. According to a West Virginia Department of Insurance announcement, Fred Lee Morgan, 61, of Frametown, used...
Jan 10 2008 // Federal inspectors found three alleged health and safety violations at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center near Martinsburg, W. Va., including two deemed serious.The Occupational Health and Safety Administration issued a...
Jan 9 2008 // Tonya Conley is one of just 15 people in West Virginia with a driver’s license despite having vision below minimum legal standards. But if a bill recommended by an interim legislative committee passes this year, she...
Jan 8 2008 // A leading expert on the way West Virginia’s courts handle asbestos claims urged legislators Sunday to avoid proposed changes to the system.“Not only is it a mistake, it would be unnecessary,” retired...