Latest Virginia Headlines
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Virginia to Start Licensing, Regulating Public Adjusters in 2013
Oct 26 2012 // Virginia regulators announced that beginning Jan. 1, 2013, all individuals and business entities doing business in the state as a public adjuster must be licensed by the State Corporation Commission. Virginia will now...
West Virginia Tops State Farm’s Deer-Vehicle Crash List
Oct 25 2012 // State Farm says West Virginia continues to be the state where a vehicle is most likely to hit a deer. The Mountain State tops State Farm’s annual list for the sixth consecutive year. The Bloomington, Ill.-based...
FEMA OKs Storm Recovery Aid for 16 W.Va. Counties
Oct 25 2012 // Federal disaster assistance is available for residents and business owners in 16 West Virginia counties hit by a June windstorm. The Federal Emergency Management Agency says the individual assistance can be used to pay for...
Rebuilding of Quake-Damaged Virginia School to Begin
Oct 24 2012 // Louisa County, Va., officials are preparing to break ground for a new elementary school that will replace one severely damaged by the 2011 earthquake. The Richmond Times-Dispatch says the groundbreaking ceremony for the...
Supreme Court Hears West Virginia Mine Widows’ Plea
Oct 19 2012 // Federal inspectors must share the blame — and therefore face a lawsuit — for a 2006 West Virginia coal mine fire that killed two miners, a lawyer for their widows argued at the state Supreme Court on Wednesday. Lawyer...
Nearly 600,000 in Virginia Sign Up for Earthquake Drill
Oct 16 2012 // Nearly 600,000 Virginia residents are expected to participate in a multistate earthquake drill this week. Gov. Bob McDonnell says many people didn’t know about earthquake safety when a magnitude-5.8 quake hit Louisa...
Markel Announces New Director of Casualty Facultative in Virginia
Oct 16 2012 // Richmond, Va.-headquartered Markel Corporation appointed Ann Marie O’Flynn director and underwriter within its casualty facultative product line.Ann Marie O'FlynnO’Flynn has over 15 years of casualty...
West Virginia Supreme Court Candidates Mindful of Critics
Oct 16 2012 // The four candidates for two seats on West Virginia’s Supreme Court differ on how to respond to criticism of the state’s judicial system from some business groups and others, each told The Associated...
Wal-Mart to Pay for Heart, Spine Surgery for Employees
Oct 11 2012 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is offering its U.S. employees and their families free heart and spine surgeries at six major health centers at no cost to the retailer’s workers, as it tries to find better ways to cover costly,...
West Virginia to Open Business Court
Oct 8 2012 // The West Virginia Supreme Court has decided that the newly created business court division will be headquartered in Martinsburg. The business court will focus on complex issues that arise in commercial litigation such as...
Virginia Regulators Set Hearing on WC Premium Level Adjustments
Oct 5 2012 // The Virginia State Corporation Commission has scheduled a hearing for Oct. 16 to consider a request filed by the National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc. to adjust the premium levels charged for workers’ comp...
Virginia Agent Arrested for Allegedly Embezzling Premium Payments
Oct 3 2012 // Virginia authorities announced a local insurance agent is facing a handful of federal charges related to fraud. Graham Hutson Messer, 32, of Bremo Bluff, Va., was charged in a sealed indictment returned Sept.12, 2012 and...
BrickStreet Remains Biggest Workers’ Compensation Writer in West Virginia
Oct 2 2012 // BrickStreet Insurance is still the dominant workers’ compensation insurer in West Virginia, despite competition from more than 200 other companies. The Legislature created BrickStreet in 2005 to replace what had been...
Virginia’s Markel Names 2 Executives in Product Line Leadership Group
Sep 27 2012 // Richmond, Va.-headquartered Markel Corporation announced two appointments within its product line leadership group. Michael Vought, managing director of excess & umbrella within Markel’s product line leadership...
Brokerage Ames & Gough Names P/C Operations Manager in Virginia
Sep 26 2012 // Ames & Gough, an insurance broker and risk management consultant specializing in serving design professionals, law firms and other professional organizations and consulting firms, appointed Amy Hotaling as vice...
Funds Withheld for 5 West Virginia Fire Departments
Sep 26 2012 // Kanawha County, West Virginia, officials are refusing to give taxpayer funds to five volunteer fire departments that haven’t shared their financial statements with the County Commission. The commission voted last...
Virginia Woman Sentenced for Health Care Fraud
Sep 19 2012 // A Richmond woman has been sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison for health care fraud and other offenses. A federal judge last Thursday also ordered Veronica Sharon Cunningham to pay more than $6.6 million in...
West Virginia Business Court to Headquarter in Martinsburg
Sep 19 2012 // The West Virginia Supreme Court says the newly created business court division will be headquartered in Martinsburg. Officials said the headquarters for the new system for business-related lawsuits will be located at the...
Length of Yellow Traffic Lights Could Prevent Accidents
Sep 13 2012 // A couple of years ago, Hesham Rakha misjudged a yellow traffic light and entered an intersection just as the light turned red. A police officer handed him a ticket. “There are circumstances, as you approach a yellow...
West Virginia Business Court to Debut Oct. 10
Sep 13 2012 // The state Supreme Court will debut a business court division next month, taking often-complicated disputes out of a hectic circuit court system, Chief Justice Robin Davis said this week. The business court that will start...
