All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 7 2015 // The U.S. Small Business Administration announced that federal economic injury disaster loans are available to small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture and most private...
Dec 6 2015 // After a period of record cash receipts, Kentucky farmers are feeling the squeeze from lower commodity prices and sluggish exports.University of Kentucky ag economists predicted Dec. 3 that statewide farm cash receipts will...
Dec 3 2015 // A western Kentucky power plant is being honored with working more than 2 million hours without a lost-time accident.The employees of the Big Rivers Sebree station recently received the Governor’s Safety and Health...
Dec 1 2015 // Vermont, Utah, Iowa, Virginia and Kentucky get an “A” and North Carolina an “F” in one think tank’s annual grading of states on how they regulate the property/casualty insurance industry.The...
Nov 30 2015 // MBA Insurance Agency of Arizona Inc. and Brown & Brown of Kentucky Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., have entered into an agreement for the acquisition by Brown & Brown of substantially all of the...
Nov 25 2015 // Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has ordered nursing homes and other health care providers to run national background checks on all new employees or risk losing their license to operate in the state. Beshear signed the...
Nov 24 2015 // Other officers elected are President-Elect: Kentucky Insurance Commissioner Sharon P. Clark; Vice President: Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Ted Nickel; and Secretary-Treasurer: Tennessee Insurance Commissioner Julie Mix...
Nov 23 2015 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) have elected 2016 officers who will will assume their duties on Jan. 1, 2016. President: Missouri Insurance Director John M. Huff President-Elect:...
Nov 12 2015 // Kentucky’s mine-safety laws and regulations didn’t apply to a subcontract worker who died while installing a massive garage door on a building at a mine site in Muhlenberg County, the state’s Supreme...
Nov 5 2015 // Kentucky Mist Moonshine is suing the University of Kentucky over use of the word “Kentucky” on clothing.The company filed suit Nov. 2 in U.S. District Court. The Lexington Herald-Leader says the suit was filed...
Nov 4 2015 // Tucked away off a narrow country road in Clark County, Kentucky, in the middle of a farm, 27 acres of hemp grew all summer. Now, the plants will be harvested and processed.Kentucky, hailed as a leader by industrial hemp...
Oct 26 2015 // The owners of Kentucky Mist distillery say University of Kentucky attorneys have sent them a letter asserting the school owns the rights to the word “Kentucky,” at least on clothing.The Mountain Eagle reports...
Oct 14 2015 // Kentucky’s nursing home industry is seeking relief from what it calls heavy-handed state oversight even though a recent review found multiple instances where its residents have been mistreated.The review by The...
Oct 12 2015 // Kentucky officials say statewide traffic deaths are on the rise so far in 2015.There were 549 fatalities as of Oct. 6 – 58 more than at the same time last year, according to preliminary numbers from the Kentucky Office...
Oct 5 2015 // The Kentucky Office of Highway Safety is working with local county officials to evaluate a roadside drug test that could help police address the growing number of drivers who are high behind the wheel.The agency and...
Oct 2 2015 // A Kentucky district court judge is challenging a county attorney’s revenue-generating traffic school in the state.Kentucky news outlets report Judge Sean Delahanty is opposed to the operation of Jefferson County...
Sep 25 2015 // The Kentucky Office of Highway Safety is working with local county officials to evaluate a roadside drug test that could help police address the growing number of drivers who are high behind the wheel.The agency and...
Sep 15 2015 // AssuredPartners Inc., has acquired Western Rivers Insurance of Paducah, Kentucky and Insurance Center of Murray, Kentucky. The agency’s 22 employees will continue to operate from their current location under the...
Sep 14 2015 // University of Kentucky campus police have charged law student Peyton Wilson with second degree wanton endangerment for operating a drone that crashed into a section of Commonwealth Stadium before the Wildcats’...
Sep 8 2015 // The nation’s doctors say the proposed mergers among four of the nation’s largest health insurance companies would violate federal antitrust guidelines and seriously erode health insurance competition.According...