CHARLESTON -- Massey Energy has reached settlements of potential wrongful death suits with the families of at least four of the coal miners that were killed in the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster in April.
MADISON -- A Boone Circuit Court jury will be asked to determine damage amounts resulting from a fatal accident at the Samples Mine of Catenary Coal Co. on July 28, 2009.
MADISON -- A mother has filed a personal injury suit against the Boone County Board of Education, alleging her seventh-grade daughter suffered nose and eye socket fractures when struck in the face by a bat during softball practice in the Wharton Grade School gym.
MADISON -- The widow of a miner employed more than four years at the Upper Big Branch Mine has filed the second wrongful death suit related to the April 5 explosion that killed 29 coal miners.
McGraw CHARLESTON – Owners of Rite Aid stores moved on Oct. 9 to dismiss a suit from Attorney General Darrell McGraw claiming they overcharge for generic drugs.
CHARLESTON – Patriot Coal Corporation removed a lawsuit to federal court, saying the man and his wife who filed the complaint fraudulently joined a Patriot Coal employee in an attempt to force the complaint to remain in West Virginia court.
McGraw CHARLESTON -– West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw and five private lawyers accuse Rite-Aid and other pharmacies of overcharging for generic drugs.
CHARLESTON – The parents of a juvenile have filed suit against Danville and one of its police officers, saying their son was mistakenly identified and wrongfully arrested as he was jogging down the street.
CHARLESTON – A Buckhannon man is suing his employer and a co-worker over injuries he suffered while working at a strip mine on the border of Kanawha and Boone counties.
MADISON –- At least 45 Seth and Prenter residents have filed complaints in Boone Circuit Court against eight coal companies, claiming they face serious health problems after their water supply was allegedly contaminated due to nearby mining operations.
CHARLESTON -- Following several filed last year, two more lawsuits have been filed in 2009 against the state Division of Corrections alleging an officer at a Greenbrier County correctional facility sexually abused female inmates.
CHARLESTON – The inability to properly handle his client's money is a problem that seemingly has dogged a Huntington attorney most of his legal career.
CHARLESTON - A Logan County miner who survived the 2006 Aracoma Coal Company mine fire that killed two of his co-workers is suing the company for failing to properly maintain the mine.
MADISON - A Boone County man was awarded more than $2 million in punitive and compensatory damages after he filed a wrongful termination suit against Independence Coal Company, a Massey Coal subsidiary.
MADISON – A Boone County jury awarded a county man nearly $2 million Monday after it ruled a mining company had retaliated against him for filing a workers' compensation claim and later failed to reinstate him.
CHARLESTON – Now that a final transcript of a 2002 trial exists, a Boone County case between Massey Energy and Harman Development Corp. might be near an end.