The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) has filed a proposed reduction in workers’ compensation loss cost rates with in West Virginia – the tenth consecutive reduction in 10 years. NCCI, West Virginia’s rating agent, has proposed an overall 9.1 …
A West Virginia jury has awarded $136,030 to a former Parkersburg South High School football player and his mother in a lawsuit over a locker room fight. The lawsuit alleged that Parkersburg South assistant football coach Dwain Sponseller encouraged a …
Most year-round residents in a flood-prone area in Berkeley County have accepted government buyouts through a hazard mitigation effort that began following a flood in 1996. Fewer than 10 year-round residents remain in the flood plain area of the Sportsman’s …
West Virginia authorities are planning a weekend crackdown on drunken boating later this month. It’s part of a national effort known as Operation Dry Water. West Virginia Division of Natural Resources officers will be out in force on state waters …
Two West Virginia men have been sentenced to prison terms for having a building torched in Logan and collecting a $1 million insurance settlement. The U.S. attorney’s office says 44-yearold James Gregory Glick of Logan was sentenced to seven years …
Safety officials are investigating possible miscommunications from a West Virginia coal mining company that initially said two workers who had been trapped in a mine were OK. The workers were later pronounced dead. State mine safety official Eugene White said …
The West Virginia coal mine where a collapse this week killed two workers had “chronic compliance issues” and received numerous citations from inspectors last year, federal authorities said on Tuesday. The Patriot Coal Corp’s Brody Mine No. 1 collapsed about …
Restaurants and storefronts are buzzing again in West Virginia’s capital city, but many still can’t recoup money lost while they shut down after a January chemical spill. Businesses have sued companies tied to the spill, tried to collect insurance claims …
John Bird would love to put himself and his partner out of business. Bird, an investigator for the state Division of Forestry, and his bloodhound partner, Jesup, find arsonists who set forest fires. An ideal year for Bird would be …
Health officials say they can’t definitively prove hundreds of West Virginians experienced health effects from contact with a chemical spilled into the water supply. Symptoms in 369 medical records were consistent with studies on spilled crude MCHM. But officials said …