Latest Virginia Headlines
All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
3,000 Tickets Issued During Virginia Road Safety Crackdown
Dec 11 2008 // A law enforcement safety operation on Interstates 64 and 66 in Virginia yielded more than two dozen arrests and more than 3,000 tickets. State police say Operation Air, Lane and Speed was conducted last Friday and Saturday...
Pole-Climbing Robots Could Save Lives of Construction Workers
Dec 11 2008 // Researchers have developed a trio of pole-climbing serpentine robots designed to take the place of construction workers tasked with dangerous jobs such as inspecting high-rises or underwater bridge piers. The Robotics and...
Truck Drivers Teach West Virginia Teens About Road Safety
Dec 9 2008 // Professional truck drivers will be in West Virginia this week demonstrating to teens how to avoid accidents with tractor-trailers. Share the Road is an outreach program of the American Trucking Association that educates...
West Virginia Judiciary Nixes Switching to Nonpartisan Elections
Dec 5 2008 // A group representing West Virginia’s judiciary has decided not to endorse a proposal to end the election of state judges along partisan lines. The West Virginia Judiciary Association adopted a resolution this week...
U.S. Supreme Court Stays Out of West Virginia Damages Case
Dec 3 2008 // The U.S. Supreme Court is refusing to enter a politically charged case from West Virginia, a major coal producing state, that involves a large punitive damages award and allegations of bias by a state judge. In an order...
Virginia’s Fall Fire Season Ends with 304 Acres Burned
Dec 3 2008 // Virginia’s fall fire season has ended, with far fewer scorched acres than the spring edition. Over the 47-day season that ended Sunday, the Virginia Department of Forestry responded to 67 fires that burned 304 acres....
West Virginia Mulls Switch to ‘Nonpartisan’ Judge Elections
Dec 2 2008 // West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin may ask the Legislature next year to end West Virginia’s practice of electing its judiciary along partisan political lines, at least for the state’s circuit court judges. Manchin...
Virginia Sees Decline of On-The-Job Deaths
Dec 1 2008 // Fewer workers in Virginia are being killed while on the job. Federal figures released Monday show workplace fatalties declined by 15 percent, from 165 in 2006 to 141 in 2007. Highway accidents were the top cause of...
Safeco, Ohio Casualty Name New Mid-Atlantic Regional Operation Heads
Nov 21 2008 // Safeco Insurance and Ohio Casualty, both Liberty Mutual Agency Markets companies, recently announced key management appointments to lead their respective personal and commercial lines operations in their Mid-Atlantic...
West Virginia Woman Sentenced to Jail for Insurance Fraud Over Jewelry
Nov 18 2008 // A West Virginian woman has been sentenced to up to 10 years for submitting false insurance claims for jewelry. According to state officials, Sherry Kay Peyton, of Williamstown, who plead guilty in May 2008 was sentenced on...
West Virginia Voters Approve Gambling for The Greenbrier
Nov 16 2008 // West Virgina voters have approved a measure that will allow the Greenbrier Resort to add casino gambling to its list of four-star amenities. Voters rejected a similar proposal in 2000, but this year’s measure was...
West Virginia Miners’ Widows Press Claims Against Massey Energy
Nov 12 2008 // Lawyers in a suit stemming from a fatal fire at a Massey Energy coal mine 2006 clashed this week over whether the deaths of two men could have been averted. Bruce Stanley, representing the widows of both men, told a Logan...
West Virginia Workers’ Comp Insurer Plans 50 Staff Cuts
Nov 12 2008 // BrickStreet Insurance said it is looking to shed 50 employees in a move to cut costs following the loss of its monopoly in writing workers’ compensation insurance policies to West Virginia businesses. The action is...
West Virginia Workplace Fatalities Down 23 Percent
Nov 7 2008 // Workplace fatalities are declining in West Virginia, according to preliminary federal figures released Nov. 5. The numbers show a nearly 23 percent decline in workplace deaths between 2006 and 2007, the U.S. Department of...
West Virginia Voters Approve Gambling for The Greenbrier
Nov 6 2008 // West Virgnia voters have approved a measure that will allow the Greenbrier Resort to add casino gambling to its list of four-star amenities. With 100 percent of the vote counted, the measure was approved by a vote of 51...
Deer Plunge through Roof of West Virginia Business
Nov 5 2008 // A spooked four-point buck and his companion apparently jumped from an Interstate 470 bridge ramp in West Virginia and plunged through the roof of the Wheeling Distribution Center. Owner Dan Shay says workers were stunned...
Gas Ignites, 2 Miners Burned at West Virginia Coal Mine
Nov 5 2008 // Two coal miners were burned on their faces and arms Nov. 3 when gas ignited, creating a brief flash of fire at a mine in northern West Virginia. The Whitetail Kittanning Mine was shut down and two investigators were sent...
Declarations
Nov 2 2008 // Rocky Quarter “It was a rocky third quarter for insurers, but risk managers still saw prices improve on average. It is increasingly clear, though, that premiums cannot continue to fall at this pace, especially with...
Business Moves
Nov 2 2008 // BrickStreet Mutual, Argonaut BrickStreet Mutual Insurance, headquartered in West Virginia, will expand its services in 2009 by offering to provide its West Virginia policyholders with workers’ compensation coverage...
Report: Deaths from Deer Collisions on Rise in Virginia
Oct 31 2008 // The number of people who die in vehicle crashes with deer and other animals in Virginia is rising. A report by the Highway Loss Data Institute says four people died in such crashes last year compared to one such death in...
