MADISON - A Spencer-based drilling company was ordered to cease operations at its permitted gas well site located two miles south of Madison because it failed to provide erosion and sediment control that led to a severe wash-out of an access road and pollution of fresh water.
Chambers HUNTINGTON – Tax preparer Jackson Hewitt claims a Bailey & Glasser client who started a class action over refund anticipation loans obtained one in a scheme to cheat on her taxes.
CHARLESTON – Three real estate developers owe $15,000 each in punitive damages to Jefferson County planning commissioner Todd Baldau, the Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled.
Bresch CLARKSBURG -- U.S. District Judge John Bailey has bailed out of a lawsuit over a degree West Virginia University awarded to Heather Bresch, daughter of former Gov. and current U.S. Senator Joe Manchin.
PARKERSBURG -- An Ohio doctor is suing a West Virginia insurance company for its failure to pay medical bills her husband, who is also a doctor, incurred as a result of his ongoing hospitalization.
MORGANTOWN -- Maxwell Multer has joined Dinsmore & Shohl as an associate in the Labor & Employment Department and a member of the Mine Safety & Health Practice Group. He will practice in the firm's Morgantown office.
We knew our Legislature's caps on medical malpractice awards were going to be challenged, and who the challengers would be: personal injury attorneys and their clients.
MORGANTOWN – Caps on awards for pain and suffering in medical malpractice trials prevent runaway jury verdicts, the West Virginia State Medical Association pleads in a case the Supreme Court of Appeals will hear on Tuesday, March 8.
Groh CHARLESTON -- West Virginia Sens. Jay Rockefeller and Joe Manchin are asking President Barack Obama to nominate Circuit Court Judge Gina Marie Groh for a federal judgeship.
CHARLESTON – Winners of a $629,000 judgment in a medical malpractice trial plead for more at the Supreme Court of Appeals, claiming a cap on their recovery violates the West Virginia Constitution.
Emily M. Renzelli, a student at the University of Virginia School of Law, spoke during AIDE's winter conference at Marshall University. She previously went to WVU and is from Bridgeport. (Photo by Kyla Asbury)
HUNTINGTON – The Appalachian Institute for Digital Evidence held its winter conference Feb. 17-18 at the Marshall University Forensics Center.
Stuart CHARLESTON -- The chairman of the state Republican Party is again lashing out at Attorney General Darrell McGraw, this time for not joining 22 other AGs in a lawsuit before the U.S. Supreme Court.