LOGAN -- A certified nursing assistant is suing the long-term care facility that employed her and other staff on allegations they fabricated a story about her to hurt her career.
LOGAN -- Grandparents are suing the state child protective services and a private placement agency, alleging their grandchildren were abused while in foster care.
LOGAN – An employee of Acculab, a water quality monitoring company in Logan County, unlawfully shot a Mingo County family’s pet turkey, a recently filed lawsuit alleges.
McHugh CHARLESTON -- The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals on Thursday remanded to a lower court the case of alleged grave desecration by a company working to relocate a gas pipeline.
LOGAN -- Nine miners who sued Massey Energy over injuries they sustained in the 2006 Aracoma mine fire in Logan County reached settlements with the company for an undisclosed amount.
CHARLESTON -– A Lowe's manager named as a defendant in a lawsuit a Logan County couple filed against him and the store did not even work at the store at the time the woman allegedly sustained her injuries, the store claims.
Workman CHARLESTON – As an attorney, Margaret Workman failed to persuade the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to lengthen the list of beneficiaries in wrongful death suits against employers. But as a Justice, she succeeded.
CHARLESTON – Speedway has moved to federal court a lawsuit in which a woman is seeking $500,000 for serious injuries she says she sustained after she fell at a Chapmanville convenience store.
CHARLESTON - A case in which a former Coca Cola Bottling Company Consolidated employee filed suit against the company for her alleged illegal termination has been moved to federal court.
CHARLESTON - Seven miners who were injured in a Logan County mine fire that killed two of their co-workers, filed lawsuits against Massey Energy and Aracoma Coal Company seeking punitive damages for their injuries.
Albright CHARLESTON – Under West Virginia law anyone who intends to sue the state must give 30 days notice, but Justices of the Supreme Court of Appeals appear ready to strike down that law.
Blankenship LOGAN – The widows of two men who died in a January mine fire have filed a lawsuit against Massey Energy Co. and Don Blankenship, saying the CEO puts profits ahead of safety.
CHARLESTON – A lawsuit filed by Logan County residents against CSX Transportation and the state Department of Environmental Protection has been moved to Kanawha Circuit Court.