By CHRIS DICKERSON CHARLESTON – To help shine a spotlight on the importance of small businesses in West Virginia and what it calls the harm these businesses can face from abusive lawsuits, West Virginia Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse has kicked off of its Small Business Summer Tour. “We are very excited to kick off our third annual statewide tour to highlight how lawsuit abuse can hurt small businesses," WV CALA Executive Director Roman Stauffer said.
CHARLESTON – To help shine a spotlight on the importance of small businesses in West Virginia and what it calls the harm these businesses can face from abusive lawsuits, West Virginia Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse has kicked off of its Small Business Summer Tour.
By KYLA ASBURY CHARLESTON – A man is suing Bayer Cropscience LP for violated the West Virginia Wage Payment and Collection Act. Steve Hedrick, vice president of Bayer's Industrial Park facility, was also named as a defendant in the suit. In early 2011, Bayer announced that it would be closing several manufacturing units dedicated to carbamate chemistries at its Institute facility and that it would cease all production, storage, consumption and use of methyl isocyanate within two years, accord
By KYLA ASBURY CHARLESTON – A federal judge has ruled that Joe Holland Chevrolet will not have to provide insurance coverage for some contraceptives to its employees. District Judge Thomas E.
CHARLESTON – A federal judge has ruled that Joe Holland Chevrolet will not have to provide insurance coverage for some contraceptives to its employees.
HUNTINGTON – Jenkins Fenstermaker attorneys Stephen J. Golder, Lee M. Hall, Barbara J. Keefer, Thomas E. Scarr, Robert H. Sweeney and Barry M. Taylor have been selected to the 2015 West Virginia Super Lawyers list.
MARTINSBURG – A Harpers Ferry man is suing the Jefferson County Board of Education after he claims it is teaching evolution, which has caused harm to his child.
HUNTINGTON – The Appalachian Institute of Digital Evidence is holding its sixth annual conference in April and will hold part of the conference in Charleston and another part in Huntington.
CHARLESTON – The asbestos trust claims act recently signed into law is good for business in West Virginia, according to several attorneys who played key roles in crafting the legislation.
CHARLESTON – The first Republican-controlled session of the West Virginia Legislature in decades is in the books, and tort reforms were a key focal point.
CHARLESTON – A local attorney testified before a U.S. Senate committee on Feb. 11, regarding a National Labor Relations Board regulation that will soon take effect.
CHARLESTON – Bailey & Wyant PLLC would like to congratulate managing member Charles Bailey for being selected as a ranked lawyer in Chambers USA 2015.
MARTINSBURG – Martin & Seibert Director of Litigation Management and General Counsel, Susan R. Snowden, recently spoke at a National Business Institute (NBI) Seminar on Construction Defect Disputes & Litigation: Using Coverage, Case Law and Indemnification to Shift Liability.
