Latest Virginia Headlines
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West Virginia Supreme Court Rules Addicts Can Sue Pharmacies, Doctors
May 18 2015 // Pharmacies and doctors who negligently prescribed pain medication can be sued for enabling people’s addictions, the West Virginia Supreme Court ruled. The ruling involved 29 people who were patients of Mingo...
Washington Hospital Joins “Superbug” Suit Against Scope Maker
May 13 2015 // A Seattle, Wash. hospital has joined a lawsuit against the manufacturer of endoscopy medical scopes linked to a “superbug” outbreak at the medical center, claiming the company, Olympus America Inc., put...
DuPont’s Teflon Spin-Off Plan Worries Neighbors of West Virginia Chemical Plant
May 8 2015 // DuPont Co.’s plan to spin off its Teflon unit is spurring concern on the West Virginia-Ohio border that the new company won’t cover medical payments for residents sickened by a chemical long-used at the...
Freedom Industries Seeks to Settle West Virginia Spill Case for $2.7M
May 4 2015 // Freedom Industries wants to wrap up its bankruptcy case by paying a variety of groups $6.7 million, including $2.7 million for victims of the company’s January 2014 chemical spill that sullied the water supply across...
Rutherfoord Hires Armwood as Senior Private Risk Account Manager in Virginia
Apr 30 2015 // Wrenna Armwood Insurance brokerage Rutherfoord, a Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC company, hired Wrenna Armwood as senior private risk account manager. Armwood is based in Rutherfoord’s Alexandria, Virginia, office....
Virginia Agency Owner Earns Wells Producer Scholarship
Apr 30 2015 // Kimberly El Amrani is the recipient of The Matt Wells Scholarship for The National Alliance Producer School, which will be held May 13-15 in Tallahassee, Florida. She is the principal owner/agent with Prime Insurance...
New Mining Map Tool from Environmental Activists Finds West Virginia Most at Risk
Apr 30 2015 // Environmental activists said that mountaintop removal coal mining has been expanding closer to communities in central Appalachia in recent years, with nearly half of the 50 areas most at risk in West Virginia. As part of...
Virginia’s Fairfax County Settles Police Shooting Lawsuit for $3M
Apr 23 2015 // Virginia’s Fairfax County agreed Tuesday to pay nearly $3 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit after one of its police officers shot and killed a man in the doorway of his home two years ago. Officer Adam...
Alpha Natural Facing Big Insurance Buy for Abandoned Mines Shortfall
Apr 20 2015 // Alpha Natural Resources Inc, a struggling U.S. coal company, may be forced to buy costly new insurance or otherwise ensure it can cover obligations for cleaning up any abandoned mines, according to officials in West...
People – East
Apr 20 2015 // American International Group Inc.named Gaurav D. Garg as chief executive officer, Personal Insurance. The appointment marks the return of Garg to AIG, where he held various personal insurance roles for 12 years before...
Prosecutors Launch Website for West Virginia Spill Victims
Apr 17 2015 // Federal prosecutors have set up a website offering updates to victims about the criminal cases over last year’s massive chemical spill in West Virginia. On Wednesday, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced the new...
Brethren Mutual Insurance Hires Walthall as Virginia Territory Manager
Apr 16 2015 // Jamey Walthall The Brethren Mutual Insurance Company in Hagerstown, Maryland, hired Jamey Walthall as Virginia territory manager. Walthall brings over 15 years of insurance experience in property/casualty marketing and...
Texas, Louisiana Improve Building Code Rankings; More Work Needed
Apr 14 2015 // Source: Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA Texas doesn’t have the worst score in a recent ranking of state building code systems but it’s pretty close to the bottom, according to a national organization committed to...
Massey Ex-CEO Blankenship’s Criminal Trial Moved to July
Apr 12 2015 // Former Massey Energy Co. Chief Executive Officer Donald Blankenship was given a three-month reprieve to prepare for a criminal trial over an April 2010 explosion that killed 29 miners. The blast at the Upper Big Branch...
Ex-Massey Mine CEO: ‘I Don’t Want to Go to 100 Funerals’
Apr 9 2015 // Former Massey Energy Co. Chief Executive Officer Donald Blankenship, facing criminal trial over an April 2010 explosion that killed 29 miners, said the year before that he feared a disaster with 100 deaths. “I...
Virginia Fraternity Chapter Plans Lawsuit Against ‘Reckless’ Rolling Stone
Apr 6 2015 // The University of Virginia fraternity chapter at the center of Rolling Stone magazine’s retracted article “A Rape on Campus” said on Monday that it planned to sue the magazine for what it called...
Pipeline Developer Sues More Than 100 West Virginia Property Owners
Apr 6 2015 // More than 100 property owners in West Virginia are being sued by the developer of a proposed natural gas pipeline. Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC’s lawsuit seeks access to the properties to conduct a survey for a...
Jury Awards $3M to West Virginia Man in Ford Crash Lawsuit
Apr 6 2015 // A 74-year-old West Virginia man who sued Ford Motor Company after his gas pedal got stuck, causing him to crash his truck, has been awarded more than $3 million in damages. The Charleston Gazette reports that a federal...
West Virginia Lawmakers Put Off Decision on Uber
Apr 6 2015 // It looks unlikely that Uber is coming to West Virginia this year. With debate closed, the Republican-led House of Delegates voted on March 13 against reviving an Uber bill that was idled. The bill would have allowed Uber...
Family Sues Over West Virginia School’s Use of Walking as Discipline
Apr 2 2015 // A student’s family is suing West Virginia’s Berkeley County Schools over a school’s use of walking as a form of discipline. The lawsuit says Mountain Ridge Intermediate School’s policy violates...
