Latest West Virginia Headlines
All the headlines from our West Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
W. Va.: 2 Kanawha County Women Arrested on Insurance Fraud Charges
Nov 14 2007 // West Virginia Insurance Commission officials arrested two Kanawha County women on insurance fraud related charges. A State Trooper assigned to the Insurance Commission’s Fraud Unit in Charleston arrested Linda Jett...
Allstate Cuts West Virginia Home Insurance Rates
Nov 12 2007 // Allstate customers in West Virginia will be paying less for homeowners’ insurance. The company announced last week that West Virginia homeowners with Allstate insurance policies will get an average rate cut of 10...
W. Va. Co. Expands Recall of Smoked Salmon Dip to 19 States
Nov 8 2007 // House of Thaller Inc. has expanded its recall of smoked salmon dips sold in West Virginia and 19 other states. The company is recalling an additional 11,177 pounds of dip packaged in 7.5-ounce containers using the Kroger...
W. Va.Counties Face Daunting Public Employee Insurance Rate Hikes
Nov 7 2007 // County officials statewide hope a series of public hearings that began Monday will highlight the threat a string of double-digit health care premium increases pose to their budgets. The 41 counties that cover their workers...
W. Va. lawmakers may reassert workers’ comp oversight
Oct 27 2007 // West Virginia legislators learned recently that they have no one to blame but themselves for the loss of power over the rules that govern workers’ compensation claims and benefits. Lawmakers first ceded the...
W. Va. Under State-wide Burn Ban
Oct 23 2007 // To reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires due to drought, Gov. Joe Manchin issued a proclamation that bans all outdoor burning throughout West Virginia effective Oct. 18. The ban, prompted by drought conditions and...
DuPont Ordered to Pay Nearly $200m in W. Va. Class-action Lawsuit
Oct 22 2007 // A West Virginia court convicted DuPont of wanton, willful and reckless conduct, and ordered the company to pay $196.2 million in punitive damages for its actions at a former zinc-smelting plant, where residents claimed the...
Jury Orders DuPont to Pay $55.5 Million to Cleanup West Virginia
Oct 17 2007 // DuPont Co. should pay about $55.5 million for property cleanup claims arising from a West Virginia industrial waste site, a Harrison County jury decided Monday. The decision came in the third phase of a trial in a...
W. Va. Jury Orders DuPont to Provide Medical Monitoring for 40 Years
Oct 12 2007 // DuPont Co. must provide medical monitoring for about 7,000 West Virginia residents who were exposed to arsenic, cadmium and lead contamination from a waste site at a former Harrison County smelter, a jury said...
W. Va. Workers Comp Writer BrickStreet Consolidates Operations
Oct 11 2007 // West Virginia’s private workers’ compensation insurance carrier, BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co., is moving to a new corporate headquarters in downtown Charleston. BrickStreet began the process of...
W. Va. Lawmakers Ponder Power Shift in Workers’ Compensation
Oct 10 2007 // West Virginia legislators learned Sunday that they have no one to blame but themselves for the loss of power over the rules that govern workers’ compensation claims and benefits. Lawmakers first ceded the rule-making...
W. Va. registrations jump during tax amnesty
Oct 8 2007 // West Virginia registration of out-of-state vehicles jumped 10 percent during a recent tax amnesty period, but officials don’t know for certain whether the increase was spurred by the opportunity to avoid paying a...
W. Va. registrations jump during tax amnesty
Oct 8 2007 // West Virginia registration of out-of-state vehicles jumped 10 percent during a recent tax amnesty period, but officials don’t know for certain whether the increase was spurred by the opportunity to avoid paying a...
W. Va. Forestry Officials Fear Fire Danger from Drought
Oct 3 2007 // If conditions remain unchanged, West Virginia faces the worst fire season in 20 years and could lose as much as 4 percent of its forests to flames. The hottest, driest summer in recent memory has left a big chunk of West...
W. Va. Jury Issues Verdict in DuPont Lawsuit
Oct 3 2007 // A Harrison County, W. Va., jury says DuPont was negligent in creating a 112-acre waste site tainted with arsenic, cadmium and lead. The jury started deliberations Monday to determine whether chemical maker DuPont was...
Trustee of Bankrupt West Virginia Steelmaker Sues Zurich
Oct 2 2007 // The trustee of the former Weirton Steel Corp. is suing Zurich Specialties London Ltd., claiming the insurance company refused to pay a legitimate claim and now owes the bankrupt steelmaker’s creditors $39...
Loss of State Workers Comp. Contract Prompts Layoffs in W. Va.
Oct 2 2007 // A company that manages old workers’ compensation claims for West Virginia is laying off 62 employees after it lost the contract to another company. Cambridge Integrated Services Group Inc. announced the layoffs...
W. Va. Commissioner Tells Drivers to Watch for Wildlife, Avoid Crashes
Sep 28 2007 // The Insurance Commissioner of West Virginia said an annual study estimates that just over 21,000 deer-vehicle claims were presented last year to insurers of West Virginia drivers. Commissioner Jane L. Cline said along with...
Brickstreet Mutual could soon face competition in W.Va.
Sep 24 2007 // BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co. may have the lock on West Virginia’s workers’ compensation insurance business now but that doesn’t mean others aren’t interested. State Insurance Commissioner Jane...
Brickstreet Mutual could soon face competition in W.Va.
Sep 24 2007 // BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co. may have the lock on West Virginia’s workers’ compensation insurance business now but that doesn’t mean others aren’t interested. State Insurance Commissioner Jane...
