Court: W.Va. man can recover damages from insurer who refused to defend him

A former Wyoming County Council on Aging director can recover damages for aggravation and inconvenience from an insurance company that refused to represent him when the state sued him, a federal appeals court ruled. This week’s unpublished opinion by a three-judge panel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia came in an appeal by Bob Graham. U.S. District Judge David Faber had ruled that Graham couldn’t recover these damages from National Union Fire Insurance.