Latest Virginia Headlines
All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
National PIA Installs New Officers; Virginia’s Lee Takes Helm as President
Oct 2 2013 // The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) has new national officers. Each will serve one-year terms that began on Oct. 1, 2013, and run through September 30, 2014. John G. Lee, of Fredericksburg,...
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in Virginia Expanding
Oct 1 2013 // The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety expects to complete a $30 million expansion at its Ruckersville campus by late 2014. Construction of new vehicle testing facilities began in March. The project includes a larger...
West Virginia Higher Ed Panel to Vote on Requiring Emergency Plans
Oct 1 2013 // West Virginia higher education officials are considering a campus safety rule that establishes policies and procedures addressing four-year institutions’ planning and response to natural disasters, shootings or other...
West Virginia Supreme Court Judge Hits Ruling on Massey
Sep 30 2013 // West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Robin Davis criticized her colleagues in a dissenting opinion Friday for refusing to let institutional shareholders revive a lawsuit filed against the former Massey Energy two weeks...
Virginia Police, Nationwide Insurance Promote Move Over law
Sep 27 2013 // The Virginia State Police is joining with Nationwide Insurance to help protect public safety personnel and all those who drive tow trucks and road maintenance vehicles. They have joined together to promote Virginia’s...
West Virginia Senator Manchin Bucks Democrats, Backs Health Mandate Delay
Sep 27 2013 // U.S. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia broke ranks with fellow Democrats and said he’d support a stopgap spending plan that delays the individual mandate in President Barack Obama’s health-care...
Court Says Facebook ‘Like’ Is Protected Speech for Employees
Sep 18 2013 // Using Facebook Inc.’s “Like” feature to show support for a candidate in an election is speech protected under the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court said, handing a victory to the social...
Officials Defend Safety of West Virginia Bridges After AP Report
Sep 17 2013 // State highway officials say West Virginia’s bridges are safe despite dozens that are both in disrepair and at risk of collapse if hit hard enough in the wrong place. An Associated Press review of federal records...
West Virginia Supreme Court Upholds Dismissal of Massey Investor Suit
Sep 16 2013 // The state Supreme Court has denied a bid by institutional shareholders in the former Massey Energy Co. to revive a lawsuit they filed two weeks after the Upper Big Branch mine disaster. In an order released Friday, the...
West Virginia’s $50M Insurance Costs Driven by Storm, Prisoner Settlements
Sep 13 2013 // A major storm and settlements of inmate lawsuits contributed to a nearly $20 million increase in the West Virginia Board of Risk and Insurance Management’s claims expenses. The agency’s annual report shows that...
West Virginia Municipalities Eye Lien on Insurance Payments to Combat Blight
Sep 10 2013 // Municipalities in West Virginia are asking lawmakers for help in their battle against blight. A resolution endorsed by the West Virginia Municipal League earlier this year at its annual conference seeks an amendment to the...
9/11 Responders Far From NYC Seek Compensation
Sep 9 2013 // They weren’t exposed to anywhere near the same level of ash, grit and fumes, but emergency workers who rushed to the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania countryside on 9/11 are signing up for the same compensation and...
West Virginia Supreme Court Weighs Municipal Liability for Dog Attack Death
Sep 9 2013 // The state Supreme Court has been asked to decide whether the Monroe County Commission and a dog warden are responsible for the 2009 death of a man who was attacked by neighborhood dogs. The justices heard arguments last...
West Virginia Court Caseload Drop Tied to Workers’ Comp Reform
Sep 9 2013 // The number of filings in the state Supreme Court was the lowest in more than 25 years in 2012, according to a report presented to West Virginia lawmakers. The report by court clerk Rory Perry says there were 1,524 cases...
Google Tests Self-Driving Car at Virginia Tech
Sep 5 2013 // Google is working with Virginia Tech researchers to bring its vision of cars that can drive themselves one step closer to reality. The technology company spent the past month in Blacksburg testing one of its self-driving...
West Virginia Family Sues Over Accident Photo
Sep 4 2013 // The family of a Rainelle, West Virginia man who died in a traffic accident is suing an ambulance company and an emergency medical technician for allegedly circulating photos of the victim’s corpse. The lawsuit in...
Investors Ask West Virginia Supreme Court to Reopen Case Against Massey
Sep 4 2013 // Institutional shareholders in the former Massey Energy Co. want the state Supreme Court to revive a lawsuit they filed two weeks after the Upper Big Branch mine disaster. Lawyers for the California State Teachers’...
West Virginia Says Resort Owner’s Illegal Dam Is Flood Hazard
Aug 29 2013 // Billionaire coal company and resort owner Jim Justice is in a war of words with the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection over an illegally built dam at a gated golf course community, a 17-foot-high...
West Virginia Coal Contractor Charged in Workers’ Comp Scheme
Aug 23 2013 // A southern West Virginia coal company contractor has been charged with conspiring to defraud the federal government. Aracoma Contracting LLC of Williamson is accused of structuring cash withdrawals in increments of $10,000...
Former Virginia Agency Owner Pleads Guilty to Insurance Fraud
Aug 22 2013 // A former Virginia insurance agent, who also owned her own insurance agency in Cumberland County, Va., will spend the next five years on supervised probation after pleading guilty to felony charges. She will also pay more...
