LAW & REGULATION

Firm Fails to Post Bond: Financially ailing Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. of Charleston, W.Va., has failed to post a $10-million appeal bond in a lease-dispute case--and that means that a family that won a $29.5-million claim against the company has the right to begin seizing its assets. The Bruen family in 1907 leased property in Kanawha County, W.Va., to United Fuel Co., which later became Columbia Gas Transmission. The lease expired in 1933, but Columbia continued to produce gas on the property through this year. It said it wasn’t aware the lease had expired.