News from September 2011
Man files lawsuit over wrongful foreclosure sale
CHARLESTON -- A Fraziers Bottom man is suing Everhome Mortgage Company after he claims it wrongfully foreclosed on his home.
Magazine calls W.Va. AG race a tossup
McGraw CHARLESTON – Even though there are no announced opponents, one political website that covers state and local governments is calling the 2012 race for West Virginia Attorney General a tossup.
Former employee sues Chili's for wrongful termination
CHARLESTON -- A Kanawha County woman is suing Chili's of West Virginia after she claims her employment was wrongfully terminated because she complained about staff members inappropriately touching her.
Couple sues Speed Mining for work-related injury
CHARLESTON -- A man and his wife are suing Speed Mining for injuries sustained during a work-related accident.
Former student sues Kanawha school board, baseball coaches for injuries
CHARLESTON -- A former Capital High School student athlete is suing the Kanawha County Board of Education and the school's two baseball coaches after he was injured during practice.
Woman says she was fired for perceived lesbianism
CHARLESTON -- A Kanawha County woman is suing the Bob Burdette Center after she claims the board members fired her because they believed she was a lesbian after looking at her Facebook profile.
Man claims Tammac charged unlawful late fees
HUNTINGTON -- A man is suing Tammac Holdings Corporation for unlawfully assessing him late fees on a manufactured home he purchased in 2007.
Nettie couple names 62 companies in asbestos suit
CHARLESTON -- A Nettie couple is suing 62 companies after they claim they are responsible for asbestos exposure and a lung cancer diagnosis.
Woman sues Comfort Inn for wrongful termination
CHARLESTON -- A former employee is suing Hi-Lad Inc. after she claims her employment was wrongfully terminated.
Woman sues CAMC for bed bug infestation
CHARLESTON -- A Clarksburg woman is suing Charleston Area Medical Center after the room she stayed in had a bed bug infestation.
East Bank woman accuses Saxon Mortgage of illegal collection
CHARLESTON -- An East Bank woman is suing Saxon Mortgage after she claims the company illegally returned her payments and charged her illegal fees.
Calif. man says HVAC company didn't do job
CHARLESTON -- A California resident is suing A Total Comfort Heating and Cooling, Inc., after he claims it failed to perform adequate work on his West Virginia residence.
Yoder admonished for letting clerk oversee hearings
Yoder CHARLESTON -- The state Judicial Investigation Commission has admonished an Eastern Panhandle judge running for the state Supreme Court for letting his law clerk preside over two hearings.
Quicken Loans taking fight to state Supreme Court
Emerson CHARLESTON -- The CEO of Quicken Loans Inc., the nation's largest online home lender, says a West Virginia circuit court judge's decision to award one of its former customers $2 million in punitive damages "made absolutely no sense."
Tomblin still OK with appeals court -- at fair price
Tomblin CHARLESTON – Acting Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin says an intermediate court of appeals is an "appropriate step" for West Virginia, but one that must be taken with a sound financial foot.
OSHA worker seeks money from a snow bank
As Oscar Wilde once observed, no good deed goes unpunished. Try to help someone and you often get grief in return.
Former WVU provost wants settlement review quashed
CLARKSBURG – Former West Virginia University provost Gerald Lang resists a bid by former business school dean Stephen Sears to examine a settlement Lang reached with the Board of Governors in a suit over a favoritism scandal.
Lawyers say robot phone calls are intrusive
CHARLESTON – Telephone calls from robots invade privacy when calls from humans wouldn't, class action lawyers argue at the Supreme Court of Appeals.
Justices to decide if Massey owned Chauncey waste dump
CHARLESTON – Williamson lawyers ask the Supreme Court of Appeals to hold Massey Energy responsible for a waste dump under Omar Elementary School in Chauncey, though they haven't proved Massey owned it.
Ohio man appeals dismissal of ethics complaint against Gilmer prosecutor
Hough CHARLESTON – Citing a failure to consider new evidence, an Ohio man is asking a state ethics panel to reconsider his complaint of improper conduct by Gilmer County's prosecuting attorney in his 2005 criminal case.