Latest Virginia Headlines
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Insurers Receive Hundreds of Tornado Claims in Virginia
Apr 25 2011 // Property owners in Virginia have submitted hundreds of claims to insurers for damage caused by recent tornadoes. The Virginian-Pilot reports that State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. received about 400 claims by...
5 Former Volunteer Firefighters in West Virginia Face Arson Charges
Apr 25 2011 // Five former members of a volunteer fire department in Jefferson County, West Virginia have been charged with arson and conspiracy. The Journal reported that a grand jury indicted the men last week. One former firefighter...
Virginia Regulators Add Translation Service
Apr 22 2011 // Virginia insurance regulators have implemented a telephone translation service that will allow consumers who speak little or no English to ask questions or make complaints about insurers or coverage. Approximately 2.7...
Termini Joins Markel in Virginia
Apr 20 2011 // Specialty insurer Markel appointed John Termini as managing director for its environmental product line. Termini, based in Richmond, Virginia, has 20 years of insurance experience and most recently served as vice president...
Storm Losses Largest in North Carolina and Virginia
Apr 19 2011 // The massive, weekend storm system that killed dozens of people, and destroyed buildings, livestock and other property as it swept east across the country, produced the most significant insured losses in North Carolina and...
US Nuclear Regulator Monitoring Plant after Tornado
Apr 18 2011 // The U.S. nuclear safety regulator said Monday it was monitoring a Virginia nuclear power plant in southeastern Virginia operated by Dominion Resources after a tornado cut its electrical power. The Nuclear Regulatory...
West Virginia Subsidy
Apr 18 2011 // West Virginia has agreed to provide $5 million to help subsidize the state’s volunteer fire departments’ workers’ compensation costs. West Virginia Acting Governor Earl Ray Tomblin has sign the subsidy...
Supreme Court Weighs Bid for Fast-Tracking Healthcare Law Challenges
Apr 15 2011 // The Supreme Court will likely reject a request to speed up a ruling on President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul law, legal and financial analysts said. The justices Friday are scheduled to consider...
Virginia House Overrides Veto of MedMal Cap
Apr 8 2011 // By a lopsided margin, the Republican-ruled Virginia House of Delegates has rejected Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell’s veto of a bill that would boost the limit on court awards on medical malpractice lawsuits. McDonnell...
West Virginia to Subsidize Volunteer Firefighters’ Workers’ Comp
Apr 8 2011 // The doors of West Virginia volunteer fire departments will stay open thanks to a new law that will help offset their workers’ compensation costs. West Virginia Acting Governor Earl Ray Tomblin has sign into law the...
Declarations
Apr 4 2011 // Dangerous Dams “Failure of one of these dams could result in loss of life or significant property damage.” āPeter Richardson, senior vice president of the Boston Society for Civil Engineers, commenting on...
West Virginia County Program to Expand
Apr 4 2011 // A West Virginia risk pool created to provide property and liability coverage to counties around the state is looking to expand into workers’ compensation. The West Virginia Counties Group Self-Insurance Risk Pool,...
Virginia Governor Vetoes $1M Increase on MedMal Cap
Apr 1 2011 // Gov. Bob McDonnell has vetoed bills that would have increased the maximum damage award for a medical malpractice lawsuit from $2 million to $3 million and would have stiffened penalties for environmental...
West Virginia Counties’ Program Expanding to Workers’ Compensation
Mar 29 2011 // A West Virginia risk pool created to provide property and liability coverage to counties around the state is looking to expand into workers’ compensation. The West Virginia Counties Group Self-Insurance Risk Pool...
Virginia’s CSE Agency Joins Keystone
Mar 22 2011 // Pennsylvania-based Keystone Insurers Group said it has added CSE Agency Inc. and CSE Financial Services Inc., of Virginia, as a franchise partner. CSE Agency and CSE Financial Services were established in 1994 following...
Feds, Shareholders at Odds Over West Virginia Mine Blast Documents
Mar 22 2011 // Federal prosecutors want to block Massey Energy Co. shareholders from reviewing documents gathered during civil and criminal investigations into last April’s deadly explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West...
Virginia Man Wins $25M in Lawsuit Against Exxon
Mar 21 2011 // A jury awarded a former shipyard employee $25 million Thursday in his lawsuit against Exxon for asbestos-related medical problems. The verdict, which followed a two-week Circuit Court trial, was one of the largest jury...
Declarations
Mar 21 2011 // Soft Ending “For commercial lines, what we’re seeing is we’re still seeing declines in premiums year-over-year, but what we’re looking at is a point and a half whereas a year ago we might have been...
BrickStreet to Drop West Virginia Government Accounts
Mar 21 2011 // The company created by West Virginia to provide workers’ compensation insurance no longer wants to cover state agencies, prompting lawmakers to consider alternative policy options. The Senate Finance Committee...
Panel Recommends New Business-Only Court in West Virginia
Mar 11 2011 // The West Virginia Supreme Court is being encouraged to create a new system to consider all business-related lawsuits. The recommendation comes from a six-member committee the court appointed last year in response to...
