All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 3 2018 // KKR & Co., Blackstone Group LP and their founders must face a lawsuit alleging they failed to deliver hedge fund returns as advertised, a judge in Kentucky ruled Friday in a decision that may present new legal...
Dec 3 2018 // The federal Department of Labor is suing the owners of two Kentucky brunch restaurants it says failed to pay workers more than $130,000 in overtime. The Courier Journal reported Wednesday that the department says the...
Nov 28 2018 // A Kentucky woman who says a Texas Roadhouse employee told her to cover up while she was breastfeeding is suing the restaurant chain for emotional distress. Sadie Durbin is quoted by news outlets as saying the employee...
Nov 16 2018 // A Kentucky woman was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay $1.6 million in restitution for crop insurance fraud. The U.S. attorney’s office in Lexington said 63-year-old Debra Muse of the Wallingford...
Nov 2 2018 // Berkley Equine & Cattle (BEC) has opened its Animal Mortality Claims Adjusting Office in Lexington, Ky., and appointed Philip O. Bradley as manager.Bradley has more than 25 years of experience adjusting equine, cattle...
Oct 31 2018 // Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear has sued a pharmaceutical company, accusing it of contributing to the state’s opioid epidemic.Beshear says he has sued Pennsylvania-based Teva for marketing its products to...
Oct 30 2018 // Police say an explosion at a Kentucky home has killed one person and injured two others. State Trooper Scotty Sharp says in a news release the explosion occurred Saturday in McDaniels. The statement says a preliminary...
Oct 15 2018 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has tapped Josh Close as client services coordinator in the firm’s Birmingham, Ala.-based national energy construction practice, reporting to EPIC Principal Brian Tanner.Close...
Oct 11 2018 // Brown & Brown of Kentucky, Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown, Inc., has acquired substantially all of the assets of FNI Management Group, according to an announcement by Scott Penny, chief acquisitions officer of...
Oct 1 2018 // Marsh & McLennan, JLTMarsh & McLennan Inc. agreed to buy Jardine Lloyd Thompson for about $5.7 billion to expand its global offering of reinsurance and consulting services. New York-based Marsh said the purchase of...
Sep 12 2018 // Kentucky and West Virginia are offering discounted rates on lodging at their state parks for people seeking shelter from Hurricane Florence. The Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet said the discounted nightly rate...
Sep 12 2018 // One person has been reported killed and one remains missing after weekend flooding spawned by the remnants of last week’s Tropical Storm Gordon. Louisville, Kentucky, Metro Police spokeswoman Alicia Smiley tells the...
Sep 5 2018 // Brown & Brown of Kentucky Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., has acquired substantially all of the assets of F&I Resources, a Westborough, Mass.-based company specializing in helping automotive dealers...
Sep 3 2018 // Western Kentucky University is developing a statewide drought warning system with the help of a $200,000 federal grant.The Bowling Green Daily News reports the Kentucky Climate Center at Western Kentucky University...
Aug 28 2018 // Western Kentucky University is developing a statewide drought warning system with the help of a $200,000 federal grant.The Bowling Green Daily News reports the Kentucky Climate Center at Western Kentucky University...
Aug 24 2018 // West Virginia Governor Jim Justice’s family coal companies are breaching their environmental responsibilities, according to Kentucky regulators, who are seeking millions in additional fines for surface mining areas...
Aug 23 2018 // Heaven Hill Distillery of Kentucky is taking Bob Dylan’s whiskey company to court, claiming trademark infringement involving its logo.Heaven’s Door Spirits is co-owned by the musician and debuted this year....
Aug 17 2018 // Appleton, Wis.-based SECURA Insurance has added Lisa Switzer as market manager for Kentucky.Switzer brings 28 years of experience in the insurance industry to her new role with a diverse mix of commercial, personal, and...
Aug 15 2018 // Drug overdose deaths in Kentucky are increasing despite a drop in opioid prescriptions and heroin use. A new report from the Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy says 1,565 people died from drug overdoses in 2017....
Aug 13 2018 // The collapse of a Kentucky distillery’s warehouse last month has crews still cleaning up and trying to salvage roughly 18,000 barrels of aging bourbon. News outlets reported Wednesday the Barton 1792 Distillery in...