Latest Virginia Headlines
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West Virginia’s BrickStreet Won’t Insure Firefighters, State Agencies
Mar 10 2011 // The company created by West Virginia to provide workers’ compensation insurance no longer wants to cover state agencies, prompting lawmakers to consider alternative policy options. The Senate Finance Committee...
Wrongful Death Suits Filed Against Massey Over West Virginia Mine Blast
Mar 8 2011 // The families of two coal miners killed in the Upper Big Branch mine blast in West Virginia last year filed wrongful death lawsuits against the mine’s owner, Massey Energy Co, saying it was a “catastrophe...
West Virginia Agents Balk At Health Insurance Exchange
Mar 8 2011 // With the Legislature’s minority Republicans already opposing the pending bill, West Virginia’s independent insurance agents are wary of this session’s bid to create a state-run health insurance...
Rising Seas Could Threaten 180 U.S. Cities by 2100
Mar 7 2011 // Rising seas spurred by climate change could threaten 180 U.S. coastal cities by 2100, a new study says, with Miami, New Orleans and Virginia Beach among those most severely affected. Previous studies have looked at where...
Rising Seas Could Threaten Cities by 2100
Mar 7 2011 // Rising seas spurred by climate change could threaten 180 U.S. coastal cities by 2100, a new study says, with Miami, New Orleans and Virginia Beach among those most severely affected. Previous studies have looked at where...
Restaurant Sales Going Up After 3 Tough Years
Mar 7 2011 // Restaurant industry sales are expected to reach a record $604 billion and post positive growth in 2011 after a three-year period of negative real sales growth. The 2011 forecast from the National Restaurant Association...
West Virginia Backs Workers’ Compensation for Volunteer Firefighters
Mar 4 2011 // West Virginia lawmakers appear willing to help the state’s volunteer fire departments with their workers’ compensation expenses. The House and Senate exchanged bills this week that would dedicate insurance...
Tennessee Sets Deadline for Claims Against 3 Shuttered Insurers
Mar 3 2011 // A Tennessee judge has set May 16 as the final date to resolve all outstanding claims against three insolvent risk retention groups that were closed in 2003 after the failure of their Virginia reinsurer, Reciprocal of...
Virginia Wildfires Still Going a Week Later
Mar 1 2011 // Virginia fire officials say it may be two weeks before wildfires in Rockingham County are fully contained. Fire officials tell WHSV-TV the fires that have burned hundreds of acres were 45 percent contained Sunday. Fire...
Security Officer at Massey West Virginia Mine Charged in Probe
Mar 1 2011 // The head of security at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch mine was arrested Monday on charges he impeded investigators and lied to them as they probed an explosion at the West Virginia mine that killed 29...
Most Beaches from Maine to Virginia Found to Be Eroding
Feb 25 2011 // A survey of hundreds of miles of New England and mid-Atlantic coastline found that 68 percent of the beaches studied have eroded during the past 150 years, according to a report released this week. The average rate of...
Massey Agrees to Medical Monitoring in West Virginia Slurry Case
Feb 25 2011 // Massey Energy will set up a medical monitoring fund for southern West Virginia residents who claim the company poisoned their wells with coal slurry. General Counsel Shane Harvey said a second mediation attempt failed to...
Virginia Insurer Buys Amphitheater Naming Rights
Feb 24 2011 // The Virginia Beach, Va. amphitheater has a new name. Multiple media outlets reported the music venue has been renamed Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach. The concert venue’s naming rights were sold to Virginia Farm...
West Virginia Volunteer Fire Departments Seek Funding
Feb 24 2011 // West Virginia’s volunteer fire departments are turning to state lawmakers for help with insurance and recruitment. A bipartisan House bill introduced this week would tap liquor revenues to provide $5 million a year...
Virginia Bill Extends Sex Abuse Statute of Limitations to 20 Years
Feb 23 2011 // A bill to extend the amount of time victims of sexual abuse have to file lawsuits against their attackers and others who may have covered up the abuse cleared a major hurdle in Virginia this week. The House Courts...
Judges Still Trying to Settle West Virginia Coal Slurry Lawsuit
Feb 23 2011 // Two judges will try again this week to settle a long-running medical monitoring lawsuit over claims that Massey Energy Co. poisoned hundreds of southern West Virginia wells with coal slurry. The first mediation attempt by...
Study Warns Rising Seas Could Threaten 180 U.S. Cities by 2100
Feb 17 2011 // Rising seas spurred by climate change could threaten 180 U.S. coastal cities by 2100, a new study says, with Miami, New Orleans and Virginia Beach among those most severely affected. Previous studies have looked at where...
Unpaid Workers’ Compensation Shuts West Virginia Fire Department
Feb 17 2011 // A volunteer fire department must stop answering calls because it failed to pay workers’ compensation premiums for its members. Marshall County emergency management director Tom Hart said the state fire...
Virginia Enters Spring Fire Season
Feb 16 2011 // A ban on outdoor burning of brush went into effect Tuesday in Virginia, as the state marked the beginning of spring fire season, which runs through April. Virginia law also prohibits burns within 300 feet of woodlands,...
West Virginia Changes Agent Licensing System
Feb 14 2011 // West Virginia is moving to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners state based system for issuing agent licenses in order to bring it in line with other states and streamline the licensing process. Starting in...
