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No more secrets

May 29, 2009 2:00 PM
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As best we can tell, H. Blair Hahn isn’t a covert operative. He doesn’t lurk in shadows or don a disguise. But his lawyer contract with West Virginia is top secret.

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THEIR VIEW: What’s wrong with checking old comp claims?

May 27, 2009 8:56 PM
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CHARLESTON — Paul Nyden recently had a article in the Sunday Gazette-Mail about how Sedgewick (the folks handling the Old Fund Workers’ Comp claims) is denying some Workers’ Comp recipients disability benefits.

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Bad cases make bad law

May 22, 2009 10:12 PM
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Filed under “be careful what you wish for,” Charleston lawyer Harry Bell is asking a federal judge to start regulating the cable television industry. Read More »

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THEIR VIEW: ‘Firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right’

May 20, 2009 8:30 AM
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CHARLESTON — February 12 marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of arguably our greatest president, Abraham Lincoln.

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More documents, please

May 15, 2009 5:00 PM
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U.S. Magistrate Judge James Siebert has to see more than smoke in the matter of Earl Baylor, the South Carolinian whose challenged asbestos sickness diagnosis is part of a questionable West Virginia lawsuit against CSX Transportation. Read More »

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THEIR VIEW: I thought these coal companies were evil?

May 14, 2009 9:32 AM
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If you believe the enviros, the coal companies are evil.

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Plaintiff’s lawyers play defense

May 8, 2009 5:44 AM
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It was relatively easy for Pittsburgh asbestos lawyer Robert Peirce to file and settle 10,000 asbestos lawsuits against hundreds of businesses. Read More »

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THEIR VIEW: Setting up the 2010 Supreme Court race

May 7, 2009 9:51 AM
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MORGANTOWN — There’s bad news for any challenger interested in running for the unexpired term on the West Virginia Supreme Court next year: The five sitting justices all had a congenial lunch together last Thursday.

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THEIR VIEW: Judge Webster? Hell may soon freeze over

May 7, 2009 9:20 AM
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CHARLESTON — I read the recent article in the Daily Mail about Judge Irene Berger getting fast tracked into a federal judgeship. And, while it will be a blessing to get her off the Circuit Court, a lifetime appointment on the Federal Bench is a little scary.

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