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Lawsuit Filed Against Mine Safety Agency Over 2010 West Virginia Mine Blast
Apr 10 2018 // A lawsuit filed by a West Virginia miner’s widow says the Mine Safety and Health Administration didn’t do enough to stop the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports Carolyn Diana...
West Virginia Gov Signs Bill Limiting Opioid Prescriptions
Apr 2 2018 // West Virginia’s governor has signed legislation to limit opioid prescriptions that doctors can prescribe to treat acute pain. Gov. Jim Justice signed the bill last week that would limit such prescriptions to supplies...
Arsenic in Groundwater? Virginia Coal Ash Case Before Court
Mar 23 2018 // Virginia’s largest electric utility asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to overturn a judge’s ruling that the company is violating federal law by discharging arsenic through groundwater into surrounding...
Lawyer: Ex-Kansas VA Worker Subject of Nearly 100 Sex Abuse Lawsuits
Mar 21 2018 // The number of lawsuits accusing a former physician assistant at a Veteran’s Administration hospital in Kansas of sexual abuse is approaching 100. The Wichita Eagle reports that Kansas City attorneys Dan Curry and...
11 More West Virginia Towns, Counties Sue Over Opioid Crisis
Mar 20 2018 // Eleven additional local West Virginia governments are suing drug companies who they say failed to follow state and federal law to prevent the distribution and abuse of prescription pain medication that’s created the...
Two Plead Guilty to Insurance Fraud by Arson in West Virginia
Mar 16 2018 // Two men pled guilty in federal court for their respective roles in a scheme to commit insurance fraud by arson. Dudley Bledsoe, age 63, of Hanover in Wyoming County, West Virginia, and Ricky Dwayne Gleason, age 54, of...
Kearns Appointed President of Virginia’s Berkley Mid-Atlantic Group
Mar 2 2018 // W. R. Berkley Corporation has appointed John F. Kearns as president of Berkley Mid-Atlantic Group, a Glen Allen, Va.-headquartered Berkley Company (BMAG). Kearns succeeds Susan N. Grady, who remains a member of the Berkley...
Virginia’s Kinsale Insurance Company Promotes Muntean
Mar 2 2018 // Kinsale Insurance Company, a Richmond, Va.-headquartered specialty insurance group focused on the excess and surplus lines market, has promoted Victoria Muntean to division manager of its Products Liability Division,...
10 Doctors Charged in West Virginia, Virginia Pill Mill Case
Feb 28 2018 // Ten doctors have been charged with overprescribing pain pills from clinics in West Virginia and Virginia, federal prosecutors announced Feb. 20. Two of those patients died. Most of the 69-count indictment charges the...
Judge Denies McKesson Bid to Keep Lawsuit Out of West Virginia County
Feb 27 2018 // The nation’s largest prescription drug distributor has lost its bid to keep a lawsuit out of a West Virginia county. News outlets report a judge rejected McKesson’s claim that it has no duty under state law to...
Markel Corporation Hires Hungate-Noland in Virginia
Feb 26 2018 // Markel Corporation has hired Beth Hungate-Noland as a managing director. In this role, Hungate-Noland will join the team at Markel that is responsible for oversight of the company’s Markel Ventures operations and...
West Virginia Judge Tosses Coal Company Lawsuit Against HBO’s John Oliver
Feb 26 2018 // A West Virginia judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by coal company Murray Energy against HBO host John Oliver. A segment of Oliver’s Sunday show “Last Week Tonight” in June poked fun at Murray Energy...
NTSB: Truck Hit by GOP Train in Virginia Was on Tracks After Warning
Feb 23 2018 // Witnesses told investigators that a garbage truck struck by a train carrying Republican congressmen through rural Virginia entered the railroad crossing after the safety gates had come down, the National Transportation...
Flood Warnings in Effect Along Ohio River in West Virginia
Feb 20 2018 // Flood warnings continue along the Ohio River in West Virginia following recent heavy rains. The National Weather Service says the Ohio River was nearly seven feet above flood stage Sunday at Point Pleasant. It was expected...
Virginia Woman Gets Four Years for Fraud, Fake Death Notice
Feb 16 2018 // A Virginia woman has been sentenced to four years in prison for an identity fraud scheme that included publishing a fake death notice. The Daily Press reports 50-year-old Alexandra Hatcher also has to pay almost $203,000...
West Virginia Officer Fired For Refusing to Shoot Suspect Settles Suit for $175K
Feb 15 2018 // A white West Virginia police officer who was fired after he refused to shoot a black man who had a gun has settled a lawsuit for $175,000. The American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia announced the settlement with...
Underground Coal Miner Killed in West Virginia
Feb 8 2018 // Authorities say a coal miner has been killed at an underground mine in northern West Virginia. The West Virginia Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training says the incident occurred shortly before 4 a.m. Tuesday...
Virginia Train Crash: Railroad Crossing Safety Arms Face Scrutiny
Feb 6 2018 // The lead investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board said it’s too early to say whether the safety arms at a rural Virginia crossing were working when a train carrying GOP members of Congress slammed...
Virginia’s Continental Underwriters Promotes Huang to Chief Operating Officer
Feb 2 2018 // Continental Underwriters Inc., a Richmond, Va.-based managing general underwriter and wholesale broker, has promoted Amanda Huang to chief operating officer. Huang has been a part of Continental for more than 12 years. She...
West Virginia Man Sentenced to Nearly 2 Years for Filing $354K in Fraudulent Claims
Jan 26 2018 // A West Virginia man has been sentenced to one year and nine months in federal prison for filing false insurance claims totaling more than $354,000. Thirty-six-year-old Daniel Lichtman of Kearneysville was sentenced for...
