Latest Virginia Headlines
All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 24 2006 // People Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners elected 2007 officers during the group’s winter meeting in San Antonio. Alabama Insurance Commissioner Walter Bell was named president, Kansas...
Business Moves
Dec 24 2006 // The Hartford, West Virginia The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has entered the personal lines independent agency market in West Virginia. Products being offered in West Virginia through The Hartford’s...
Top 10 Stories of the Year – Southeast
Dec 24 2006 // While Mother Nature was nicer to the Southeast and the insurance industry in 2006 than she was in 2005, her potential for destruction was never far from the minds of those living and rebuilding in the Southeast. Insurance...
2006:a big year for P&C buyers and sellers of all shapes and sizes
Dec 24 2006 // JANUARY Hallmark Acquires Fort Worth, Texas-based Hallmark Financial Services Inc. has completed its acquisition of Aerospace Holdings LLC, which markets general aviation insurance products. Hallmark underwrites...
Report Hits Virginia Government’s Data Security Efforts
Dec 20 2006 // A majority of state government agenciesin Virginia are doing an unacceptable job of protecting information like Social Security and credit card numbers, driving records and medical information, according to a state...
The Hartford Enters W. Va. Personal Lines Independent Agency Market
Dec 14 2006 // The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. has entered the personal lines independent agency market in West Virginia. Products being offered in West Virginia through The Hartford’s independent agency channel include...
W. Va. Coal Industry Struggles to Find Lightning Solution
Dec 14 2006 // The apparent cause of a fatal explosion at an Upshur County coal mine in January has the industry grappling with a new problem: how to keep the nation’s underground mines safe from lightning-sparked explosions. While...
Virginia Property Owners Alerted to Insurers’ Higher Deductibles
Dec 14 2006 // Virginia’s Bureau of Insurance is advising property owners in the state that several top writers of property insurance are imposing mandatory hurricane deductibles of five percent on new and renewal policies. Many of...
West Virginia Woman Faces Insurance Fraud Charges
Dec 13 2006 // Deborah K. Wildberger of Morgan County was convicted earlier this month on three felony counts of insurance fraud. According to the West Virginia Insurance Commission, Wildberger was found guilty of soliciting a tenant,...
Incoming W.Va. House Speaker Vows to ‘Lead from Middle’
Dec 12 2006 // The next speaker of West Virginia’s House of Delegates will be receptive to measures pressing large employers like Wal-Mart for better health care benefits and overhauling the grievance process for public workers,...
National Group Says W.Va. is Getting Less Healthy
Dec 12 2006 // More West Virginians without health insurance and longtime problems with smoking and obesity have led a national group to drop the Mountain State’s ranking to 43rd healthiest in the country. That’s a drop of...
Ala.’s Bell Heads State Regulators; Kansas’ Praeger Next in Line
Dec 12 2006 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners elected 2007 officers during last week’s winter meeting in San Antonio. Alabama Insurance Commissioner Walter Bell was named president, Kansas Insurance...
W.Va. Probe Finds Lightning Set Off Sago Mine Explosion
Dec 8 2006 // After nearly a year of studying the Sago Mine disaster, West Virginia state investigators have concluded that an unusually powerful lightning strike somehow ignited methane gas underground, a United Mine Workers official...
Virginia Mutual Policyholders OK Stock Conversion, Merger with Alfa
Nov 29 2006 // Policyholders of Virginia Mutual Insurance Co. have approved the previously announced plan of conversion with Alfa Corp., the companies reported. Under the agreement, Virginia Mutual will convert from a mutual company to a...
Virginia Approves Workers’ Comp Price Changes
Nov 29 2006 //
Regulators Install Management Committee for Interstate Compact
Nov 27 2006 // The Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Commission created by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners installed its Management Committee and elected a Committee chair, vice-chair and treasurer recently...
Virginia Attorney’s Suit Blames City for Hurricane Floyd Floods
Nov 22 2006 // A Virginia attorney has refiled a $20 million lawsuit that blames the city of Newport News for flooding during Hurricane Floyd in 1999. The suit is on behalf of residents of the Denbigh area of the city, and follows a...
Court-Appointed Scientists Say Teflon Health Studies Could Take Years
Nov 17 2006 // Ohio and West Virginia residents who sued DuPont over a chemical used to produce Teflon may have to wait up to five years before learning if their health has been adversely affected by the substance, members of a science...
Work Begins on New State Fire Academy in W. Va.
Nov 16 2006 // Construction has started on a new state fire academy in Lewis County, West Virginia. The $6.3 million building, scheduled to be finished in June near the Jackson’s Mill State 4-H Conference Center, will replace the...
Interstate, Swiss Re Expand Trucking Program into Virginia, Indiana
Nov 15 2006 // Interstate Insurance Management (IIM) and Swiss Re’s Commercial Insurance are expannding their insurance program for the trucking industry into Virginia and Indiana. The program, which has been in operation since...
