By Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette-Mail
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A federal judge has approved an agreement to end a federal court standoff between a Charleston insurance provider and one of U.S. Sen. Jim Justice’s coal companies.
BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co. had said the West Virginia Republican’s Southern Coal Corp. had not complied with a previous court order to pay over $500,000 and breached a subsequent settlement agreement.
But Chief U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Dillon dismissed the case Friday in the District Court for the Western District of Virginia after the firms told the court that all matters that followed a 2023 judgment in BrickStreet’s favor had been resolved.
A joint fiing from the companies Thursday reported they had settled the dispute on July 11 via an undisclosed, written settlement agreement under which Southern Coal had made a “payment satisfactory” to BrickStreet.
