Latest Virginia Headlines
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West Virginia’s Workers’ Comp Writer BrickStreet to Expand Into Other States
Mar 3 2009 // Workers’ compensation insurer BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co. wants to expand into Kentucky, Virginia, Alabama, Pennsylvania and Illinois. President and Chief Executive Officer Greg Burton says the West...
Insurance Fraud Arrests and Convictions on the Rise in Virginia
Mar 3 2009 // The Insurance Fraud Program (IFP) of the Virginia State Police said it made 307 arrests for insurance fraud last year — a 47 percent increase over the previous year. In addition, convictions for insurance fraud in...
Texting While Driving Ban Passes Virginia Senate
Feb 26 2009 // OMG! Texting your BFF while driving could soon cost you. The Senate voted 33-6 Tuesday to pass Del. John Cosgrove’s bill to ban sending or reading text messages or e-mail while driving. The House passed the...
$160 Million West Virginia Flood Control Project Nears Approval
Feb 24 2009 // A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official says a proposed $160 million flood-control project along the Greenbrier River in West Virginia’s Pocahontas County could be approved soon. Talk of the project started more than...
The Hartford Sues Virginia Firm to Limit Salmonella Claims
Feb 22 2009 // The Hartford has filed a lawsuit to determine whether it must pay claims filed by victims of a nationwide salmonella outbreak traced to the Virginia peanut butter maker it insures. Hartford, Conn.-based Hartford Casualty...
Lawmakers Propose Reining in West Virginia Insurance Agency
Feb 19 2009 // West Virginia gives its insurance commission a lot of leeway when it comes to regulating workers’ compensation coverage. But pending legislation could change that. The House majority whip and judiciary chairwoman are...
The Hartford Sues Virginia Firm to Limit Salmonella Claims
Feb 9 2009 // The Hartford has filed a lawsuit to determine whether it must pay claims filed by victims of a nationwide salmonella outbreak traced to the Virginia peanut butter maker it insures. Hartford, Conn.-based Hartford Casualty...
Business Moves
Feb 8 2009 // Liberty Mutual, Wausau Liberty Mutual Group, which sells insurance both direct and through independent agents, is discontinuing direct distribution to mid-sized businesses and now plans to distribute its commercial...
Kentucky Reeling from Ice Storm; Slow FEMA Response Hit
Feb 2 2009 // In some parts of rural Kentucky, they’re getting water the old-fashioned way — with pails from a creek. There’s not room for one more sleeping bag on the shelter floor. The creative are flushing their...
2 More West Virginia Families Reach Sago Mine Settlements
Jan 28 2009 // Court records show that families of two more workers who died in the Sago Mine disaster have settled their lawsuits with the mine’s operator. Details of the settlement with International Coal Group were not made...
BrickStreet Writes Outside West Virginia; Drops Worst In-State Accounts
Jan 25 2009 // BrickStreet Mutual Insurance has written its first out-of-state policy. The policy, which went into effect Jan. 1, covers the employees of a West Virginia-based pipeline company working in the Commonwealth of...
West Virginia Mutual Insurance Pays Off $24 Million State Loan
Jan 21 2009 // West Virginia Mutual Insurance Co. (WVMIC), formerly known as the West Virginia Physician’s Mutual Insurance Co., has paid off the $24 million surplus loan it received in 2004 from the State of West Virginia. WVMIC...
West Virginia Insurer BrickStreet Mutual Elects Flaherty Chairman
Jan 20 2009 // BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co.’s board of directors has elected Charleston attorney Thomas V. Flaherty to serve as its new chairman. In addition, BrickStreet Senior Vice President and General Counsel Thomas J....
Brickstreet Writes First Workers Comp Policy Outside West Virginia
Jan 12 2009 // BrickStreet Mutual Insurance has written its first out-of-state policy. The policy, which went into effect Jan. 1, covers the employees of a West Virginia-based pipeline company working in the Commonwealth of...
West Va. Court Absolves Insurer in Underage Drinking Case
Jan 11 2009 // The West Virginia Supreme Court says a homeowner’s insurance company should not be held liable for paying damages stemming from a fatal alcohol-related accident involving underaged drinkers. In its unanimous ruling,...
Greenbrier Owner Weighs Options for Money-Losing West Virginia Resort
Jan 5 2009 // Railroad operator CSX Corp. has hired New York investment banker Goldman, Sachs & Co. to help determine what to do with the money-losing luxury resort. The aim is to make the White Sulphur Springs landmark a viable...
West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Writer BrickStreet Drops Policies
Jan 4 2009 // West Virginia’s BrickStreet Insurance is looking to trim costs in 2009 by dropping nearly 1,000 workers’ compensation policies its chief calls the worst of the worst. Greg Burton says the policies have brought...
Inspector Shortage Hampers West Virginia Coal Mine Safety Effort
Dec 30 2008 // An inability to retain inspectors is hurting West Virginia’s efforts to make the inherently dangerous business of coal mining safer. Faced with a turnover rate topping 20 percent, the state is scrambling — for...
Massey Energy to Pay $4.2 Million in 2006 Fatal West Virginia Fire
Dec 29 2008 // A Massey Energy subsidiary has agreed to pay $4.2 million in civil and criminal penalties and plead guilty to federal charges stemming from a fire that killed two miners at a southern West Virginia coal mine in January...
West Virginia High Court: Insurer Not Liable in Underage Drinking Case
Dec 19 2008 // The West Virginia Supreme Court says a homeowner’s insurance company should not be held liable for paying damages stemming from a fatal alcohol-related accident involving underaged drinkers. In its unanimous ruling,...
