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Woman Injured at West Virginia Walmart Awarded Nearly $17M
Mar 7 2019 // A jury in West Virginia has returned a nearly $17 million verdict after a woman was injured when staffers tried to detain a shoplifter in Walmart. Jurors in Wood County, West Virginia, issued the verdict Monday. A lawyer...
Virginia Honors Independent Agents for Efforts to Fill Flood Insurance Gaps
Mar 4 2019 // The Virginia House of Delegates passed a joint resolution that would designate the first full week in March each year as Trusted Choice Independent Insurance Agents Week beginning in 2019. HJ 703, introduced by Del. Buddy...
Dodrill Appointed as West Virginia Insurance Commissioner to Succeed McVey
Feb 20 2019 // West Virginia Governor Jim Justice has appointed James A. Dodrill as insurance commissioner, effective March 4, 2019. Dodrill succeeds Allen McVey, who was appointed earlier this year as secretary of the West Virginia...
State Farm Announces 4.9% Auto Insurance Rate Decrease in Virginia
Feb 15 2019 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company will cut its rates in Virginia for the second time in two years. As a result, its overall personal auto rate will drop by 4.9 percent. The total state-wide expected impact for...
Natural Gas Company to Pay $3.15M Fine for Polluting West Virginia Waterways
Feb 15 2019 // A Colorado-based natural gas producer has agreed to pay a $3.15 million civil penalty to resolve pollution violations at 32 drilling sites in West Virginia. The U.S. Department of Justice says in a news release the agency...
Virginia Honors Independent Agents for Efforts to Fill Flood Insurance Gaps
Feb 12 2019 // The Virginia House of Delegates passed a joint resolution that would designate the first full week in March each year as Trusted Choice Independent Insurance Agents Week beginning in 2019. HJ 703, introduced by Del. Buddy...
Lawmaker: West Virginia Paying Insurance for 4K Vehicles It Doesn’t Own
Feb 11 2019 // A West Virginia lawmaker says the state has been paying insurance on thousands of vehicles than it doesn’t actually own. House of Delegates committee on government organization chairman Gary Howell announced last...
West Virginia City Investigating More Suspicious Blazes
Feb 11 2019 // Firefighters in West Virginia are investigating two more suspicious blazes in Huntington, for a total of 13 since the beginning of the year. The Herald-Dispatch reports one fire reported on Thursday occurred at a home...
Using Hands-Free Devices While Driving Not So Risky: Research
Feb 11 2019 // New research suggests that drivers who use hands-free electronic devices, as opposed to handheld ones, are not increasing their risk of getting into a crash. According to the research from Virginia Tech Transportation...
Brown & Brown Insurance Agency of Virginia Acquires LRS&C
Feb 8 2019 // Brown & Brown Insurance Agency of Virginia Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., has acquired substantially all of the assets of LRS&C. Brown & Brown Inc. is an insurance brokerage firm providing risk...
5 Former West Virginia Volunteer Firefighters Charged with Arson
Feb 8 2019 // Five former volunteer fighters in West Virginia have been charged with arson following a two-year investigation by the state fire marshal’s office. The office says in a news release that the former Cabell County...
West Virginia Gov. Appoints Hunter Acting Insurance Commissioner
Feb 6 2019 // West Virginia Governor Jim Justice has appointed Erin K. Hunter as acting insurance commissioner for the state, effective Jan. 25, 2019. She takes over for Allan McVey who was appointed by Justice last month as Secretary...
Officials Investigating 11 Fires in West Virginia City
Feb 5 2019 // Fire officials say they’re investigating after responding to nearly a dozen structure fires in five weeks. According to Huntington Fire Marshal Captain Matt Winters tells WCHS-TV that there have been 11 fires so far...
16 High School Basketball Players Injured in West Virginia Bus Crash
Feb 4 2019 // Emergency officials in West Virginia say a charter bus carrying a high school girls basketball team has rolled over, leaving 16 injured. News outlets report the bus was carrying a team from Martinsburg High School when it...
West Virginia City Reports Overdose Deaths Doubled in 2018
Jan 31 2019 // Drug overdose deaths doubled in one West Virginia community last year. The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register reports figures released Jan. 22 by Wheeling police show officers responded to 13 overdose deaths last...
How Cell Phone Use While Driving Is Changing
Jan 28 2019 // Manipulating a cellphone was a contributing factor in more than 800 crash deaths on U.S. roads during 2017 amid a marked increase in the percentage of drivers observed interacting with cellphones, new research by the...
Wilkinson Insurance Services Acquires Commercial Insurance Services of Virginia
Jan 25 2019 // Wilkinson Insurance Services Inc., an insurance premium audit services company based in Huntsville, Ala., is expanding to Virginia with its acquisition of Commercial Insurance Services of Virginia. The acquisition is...
Shutdown Stalls West Virginia Recovery From 2016 Floods
Jan 23 2019 // A program that helps people rebuild homes that were damaged or destroyed in West Virginia’s 2016 flood is being affected by the partial federal government shutdown. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports a statement...
Starkweather & Shepley Selects Burns to Lead Newly Opened Virginia Beach Office
Jan 22 2019 // Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc. (S&S) has opened a new Virginia Beach, Va., location led by Christopher Burns, senior vice president and National Marine Practice Group leader. In this role, Burns...
New York’s The Iroquois Group Hires Venus in Virginia
Jan 16 2019 // The Iroquois Group, an Allegany, N.Y.-headquartered network of independent insurance agencies, has hired Charles Venus as its vice president of Middle Market & Specialty. Venus is based in Northern Virginia. The former...
