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WEST VIRGINIA RECORD

Thursday, October 31, 2024

Steve Korris News


DEP chief says EPA undermined state power

By Steve Korris |
WASHINGTON – Federal regulators usurped West Virginia's authority when they delayed water quality permits for mountaintop coal mines, state environmental secretary Randy Huffman pleaded in federal court on July 13.

Lang, WVU settle academic misconduct case

By Steve Korris |
Bresch MORGANTOWN - Former West Virginia University provost Gerald Lang and the Board of Governors settled a suit that delayed for two years the school's investigation of a master's degree it awarded to Heather Bresch, daughter of U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin.

Lawyers get big cut in call center class action settlement

By Steve Korris |
MARTINSBURG – Hundreds who lost jobs when AB&C call centers closed without warning will share a $726,000 class action settlement on a fairly random basis.

Nature groups must act fast to challenge water agreement

By Steve Korris |
Copenhaver CHARLESTON – Nature groups can challenge a water quality agreement between Arch Coal and government regulators but they must do it quickly.

Digitek lawyers settle fee dispute

By Steve Korris |
Goodwin CHARLESTON – Lawyers who feuded in public over fees from national litigation against drug maker Actavis and distributor Mylan settled the dispute privately.

Justices: Courts can't enforce lopsided nursing home arbitration plans

By Steve Korris |
Ketchum CHARLESTON – Courts can't enforce lopsided arbitration agreements in nursing home admission contracts, the Supreme Court of Appeals ruled on June 29.

Two plaintiffs in CSX cases against law firm die

By Steve Korris |
WHEELING – Two of 13 former CSX workers alleging legal malpractice against the Provost Umphrey firm of Beaumont, Texas, died three days apart.

Dollar General settles four federal suits

By Steve Korris |
CLARKSBURG – Retailer Dollar General settled four federal suits alleging it classified workers as managers in order to avoid paying them overtime.

Supreme Court upholds caps on damages

By Steve Korris |
Workman CHARLESTON -- West Virginia legislators didn't violate the state constitution when they reduced a cap on damages for pain and suffering in medical malpractice cases from $1 million to $500,000, the Supreme Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday.

Seat belt maker must pay claimant amount of Chrysler's bounced check

By Steve Korris |
Love CHARLESTON – Seat belt maker Autoliv must pay a driver's estate $85,000 to make up for a Chrysler check that bounced, the Supreme Court of Appeals ruled on June 17.

Court allows fentanyl death case barred by statute in N.C. to proceed here

By Steve Korris |
Workman CHARLESTON – Randy Mace can't sue Mylan drug companies over his wife's death in North Carolina, where he lives and she died, but he can sue them in West Virginia.

Borrowers can sue debt collectors, Justices rule

By Steve Korris |
Davis CHARLESTON – State law that allows borrowers to sue lenders or unfair practices allows them to sue debt collectors too, the Supreme Court of Appeals ruled on June 14.

Benz case should go to Philly, Justices rule

By Steve Korris |
Davis CHARLESTON –- Kanawha Circuit Judge Tod Kaufman presided over a suit against Mercedes-Benz when he should have sent it to Philadelphia, the Supreme Court of Appeals ruled on June 14.

Judge must explain class action certification

By Steve Korris |
CHARLESTON – Jackson Circuit Judge David Nibert must explain why he certified a class action of car crash victims against Erie Insurance, the Supreme Court of Appeals says.

Temporary Justices order hearing on fee dispute involving Workman

By Steve Korris |
Workman CHARLESTON – Five temporary Justices of the Supreme Court of Appeals ordered Kanawha Circuit Judge Paul Zakaib to hold a hearing in a fee dispute involving Chief Justice Margaret Workman.

Dollar General sides miss hearing deadline

By Steve Korris |
CLARKSBURG – Dollar General and workers who claim the retailer underpaid them each passed up a chance to challenge the qualifications of the other's experts.

Jackson Hewitt bankruptcy stalls class action

By Steve Korris |
Chambers HUNTINGTON – If tax preparer Jackson Hewitt cheated customers as a suit in federal court alleges, it didn't cheat them sufficiently to remain solvent.

EPA: Mountaintop mining rules will change

By Steve Korris |
Moreno WASHINGTON – Water quality regulators who restricted mountaintop coal mining and defended the record behind their decision announce the rules and the record will change.

Goodwin gives Digitek sides 15 more days

By Steve Korris |
Goodwin CHARLESTON – U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin has granted 15 more days for lawyers to settle a feud over fees in national litigation against drug maker Actavis Totowa and distributor Mylan Pharmaceuticals.

Taxpayers not on hook for election-related legal fees, Court rules

By Steve Korris |
McHugh CHARLESTON – McDowell County taxpayers don't have to pay legal bills that county commissioner Ray Bailey incurred in an election contest, the Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled.