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lawsuit and agency records. Vieweg also wants to dismiss the suit against Bluestone, owned by James C. Justice II of Beckley. Two Bluestonecontractors owe Workers' Compensation nearly $385,000, according to the most recent list of... Published: Sunday, September 19, 1999 Words: 761
major coal companies, contractors and individual officers. Bluestone Coal was the first company sued. Today, 50 different Bluestonecontractors owe Workers' Compensation a total of more than $9.3 million, according to legal documents... Published: Monday, March 22, 1999 Words: 470
Workers' Comp debts, then go out of business or simply disappear. The parent company moves on to the next contractor. Employment Commissioner William Vieweg, who used to work for Island Creek, one of the worst abusers of the contractor... Published: Sunday, December 12, 1999 Words: 559
shifting burdens from large coal producers to smaller companies. Kozak was overseeing litigation against coal companies whose contractors owed millions of dollars in delinquent Workers' Comp premiums and fines. Vieweg has shown little... Published: Friday, January 30, 1998 Words: 430
contractors to operate underground mines near Keystone in McDowell County. The lawsuit alleged 22 of these contractors accumulated more than $5 million in unpaid premiums and interest. - Island Creek Coal Co. and its subsidiary, Laurel... Published: Thursday, February 13, 1997 Words: 703
but Massey has run through more than 475 contractors in the last 20 years. According to state records gathered by Nyden, about 100 of Massey's contractors owe the Workers' Compensation Fund $30 million. If a coal firm can find a way... Published: Tuesday, January 06, 1998 Words: 518
use contractors to duck obligations. Some, including Arch Mineral and Pittston Coal, make sure their contractors pay Workers' Comp premiums. Other firms, like A.T. Massey Coal Co., do not. Oddly, the West Virginia Coal Association,... Published: Thursday, February 18, 1999 Words: 397
calls it a subterfuge. Companies like Massey that go through hundreds of contractors, most of whom disappear or file bankruptcy, make huge profits off the coal but don't live up to their responsibilities, he says. "The big coal companies... Published: Tuesday, February 04, 1997 Words: 530
contributor to political candidates, including Underwood in 1996. According to Division of Environmental Protection and Workers' Comp records, Hampden Coal used at least six contractors that ran up unpaid bills to Workers' Comp. Henderson... Published: Monday, August 17, 1998 Words: 651
Gazette investigative reporter Paul Nyden pointed out in a 1993 series of award-winning stories, several large coal companies used contractors as a shield, letting them bear the burden of Workers' Comp premiums, environmental fines... Published: Tuesday, August 13, 1996 Words: 293
