CHARLESTON – Despite denying she influenced the state Supreme Court to reduce her son's 2001 kidnapping and torture conviction, court records show a Dunbar woman and her husband may have used their knowledge of the legal system to avoid paying rent for nearly two years.
CHARLESTON – Two former clients of a South Charleston attorney who filed separate malpractice suits against him are staking their claim to a portion of the $100,000 he earned working as mental hygiene commissioner.
Richardson CHARLESTON – Two times in less than a year after he was released early from prison on a kidnapping and torture conviction, a Charleston man was re-arrested for domestic violence-related crimes.
NEW HAVEN – Though one chapter in the saga of a Mason County alloy plant may be closed, the legal legacy involving its previous owner, in many instances, remains literally an open book.
CHARLESTON - A Kanawha County surgeon blames his rising medical malpractice insurance premiums on the insurance company that chose not to settle a claim.
CHARLESTON – Attorneys from Virginia tried to sell a $1.7 million "life care plan" to West Virginia jurors on behalf of accident victim Ann Alderman of Pocahontas County, but jurors did not buy the plan.
CHARLESTON - A Charleston man says he was wrongfully evicted from his apartment and suffered property damage when his possessions were placed on the street.
CHARLESTON - A federal judge recently denied the Motion to Dismiss filed by one retired and six current Kanawha Circuit judges, allowing a wrongful termination case concerning an alleged racial slur to proceed against them.
CHARLESTON – A Charleston attorney says campaign contributions aren't the reason he has been appointed as a special assistant by Attorney General Darrell McGraw's office three times in the last two years.
CHARLESTON – Blue Cross and Blue Shield of West Virginia hurt a lot of people when it went broke 16 years ago, and leaders of the United Mine Workers of America still think it hurt their union more than anyone else.
Jeannettia D. Spencer poses with her son James. CHARLESTON – Recourse already exists for a party to have a case that was dismissed to later be reopened, and requirements that attorneys to carry malpractice insurance would have to come from the state Supreme Court, and not the state Legislature, says the head of the state Bar association.
Whittaker WINFIELD – More than two dozen companies of Powerball winner Jack Whittaker have filed a petition for injunction to keep his estranged wife from claiming any interest to land owned by them.
Manchin CHARLESTON -- On April 29, 2005, I was pleased to sign into law civil justice and insurance reform legislation that provided our residents with some needed financial relief.