All the headlines from our West Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 23 2006 // Randal McCloy Jr., the only survivor of the recent tragedy at the the 260-foot-deep Inter-national Coal Group Mine in West Virginia, will be eligible for medical benefits and wage replacement benefits immediately, and will...
Jan 22 2006 // Randal McCloy Jr., the only survivor of the recent tragedy at the the 260-foot-deep Inter-national Coal Group Mine in West Virginia, will be eligible for medical benefits and wage replacement benefits immediately, and will...
Jan 13 2006 // West Virginia Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline has asked a Kanawha County Circuit Court to enjoin Ingersoll-Rand of Montvale, N.J. from doing business in the state because it owes the West Virginia Workers’...
Jan 6 2006 // The White House promised a full investigation of the West Virginia coal mine disaster that killed 12 people.Congressional Democrats called for hearings to look into both the safety record of the mining company and the Bush...
Jan 6 2006 // Randal McCloy Jr., the only survivor brought out alive from the 260-foot-deep International Coal Group Mine, will be eligible for medical benefits and wage replacement benefits immediately, and will receive workers’...
Jan 4 2006 // Editor’s Note: This story was updated at 3 a.m. EST. News prior to then indicated that early reports were 12 miners in a West Virginia coal mine explosion had been found alive. Hours later, officials said that was...
Jan 3 2006 // Jacobs Financial Group Inc. has acquired all of the issued and outstanding stock of West Virginia Fire and Casualty Company (WVFCC) from The Celina Mutual Insurance Company (Celina) of Celina, Ohio. The transaction had...
Jan 3 2006 // A West Virginia coal mine where 13 miners were trapped after an explosion Monday was cited 208 times for alleged safety violations in 2005, up from just 68 citations the year before.Federal regulators’ allegations...
Dec 29 2005 // The hurricane season made 2005 a year-to-remember, with the southeast encountering the busiest hurricane season of the century, with 26 named storms and 13 hurricanes, meteorologists used up the list of 21 proper names and...
Dec 12 2005 // A West Virginia Supreme Court ruling upholding coverage for a woman who wrote a bad check to start an auto insurance policy, saying she deserves coverage after she was involved in an accident, has Charleston insurance...
Dec 7 2005 // As it spins off as a private insurance program, West Virginia’s workers’ compensation program will show little patience with employers that fail to pay their premiums, its executive director said Monday.As of...
Dec 4 2005 // ALABAMAAlabama Expects 50,000 Claims More than 50,000 claims are expected in Alabama from hurricane damage, however, complete cost estimates won’t be available until this month.Ragan Ingram, Department of Insurance...
Nov 21 2005 // The West Vir-ginia Mutual Insu-rance Company has been granted a 5 percent rate increase according to Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline.West Virginia Mutual filed for the rate decrease with the Offices of the Insurance...
Nov 21 2005 // West Virginia Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline, announced Richard Custer Jr. was sentenced Oct. 12 on one felony charge of making a false statement to the Workers’ Compensation Commission.Custer, of Marshall...
Nov 20 2005 // Brian, Brad and Dean Shecht-man, cousins who allegedly swindled more than 1,200 elderly victims out of millions of dollars in a bait-and-switch insurance scheme are in the limelight again as details surface about a...
Nov 20 2005 // FloridaFAIA Likes Due-Diligence DecisionThe Florida Association of Insu-rance Agents has filed an amicus (friend of the court) brief with the First District Court of Appeals in a case involving an insurance agent who...
Nov 15 2005 // ‘Tis the season…for extreme cold, freezing rain, snow and strong winds, therefore, it is important to inspect and winterize your home, according to West Virginia Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline. The...
Nov 14 2005 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) has applauded West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin for calling a special session of the State Legislature in order to finalize any remaining details of the...
Nov 9 2005 // The average cost of an automobile claim directly attributable to a driver having a collision with deer or wildlife is more than $1,700 per claim and totaling approximately $33 million, according to an annual study...
Nov 7 2005 // Automobile and homeowners rates have been dramatically reduced as a result of legislative changes made by the West Virginia Legisla-ture, Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline, told Professional Independent Insurance Agents...