DuPont will pay a fine of $1.275 million to settle a federal complaint over eight chemical releases from a Kanawha County production facility, one of which killed a worker. The Department of Justice and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said the …
The West Virginia Supreme Court has slashed by more than half the multimillion-dollar damages a jury levied against a Charleston nursing home in connection with a former resident’s death. In a 76-page divided opinion released, the justices reduced the penalty …
A Maryland woman whose son drowned last year along an obstacle course in West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the organizers of Tough Mudder’s Mid-Atlantic event. The lawsuit filed by Mita Sengupta against Tough Mudder …
The company behind a chemical spill that contaminated the water supply of 300,000 people now estimates some 10,000 gallons of chemicals leaked, up from an earlier figure of 7,500 gallons, state regulators said Monday. West Virginia’s Department of Environmental Protection …
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 found that 178 West …
Nearly 15,000 miles of natural gas pipeline stretch across West Virginia, and as residents of this community north of Charleston now know, devastating explosions can happen without warning. Federal regulators say there have been 20 “significant” pipeline incidents involving deaths, …
The state Supreme Court will debut a business court division next month, taking often-complicated disputes out of a hectic circuit court system, Chief Justice Robin Davis said this week. The business court that will start Oct. 10 generally will handle …
West Virginia’s state-created workers’ compensation insurers is expecting to lose million of dollars in government agency contracts following the opening of the market to other carriers on July 1. One by one, boards of education and other entities across the …
A state-created insurance company for workers’ compensation coverage is expecting to lose million of dollars in government agency contracts when the market opens up to other carriers next week, the insurer’s chief said. One by one, boards of education and …
Workers’ compensation premium increases for volunteer fire departments are being postponed for a year while lawmakers address firefighter safety and liability issues, Gov. Joe Manchin said. Manchin said he hopes to have legislation ready for a July 19 special session. …
