All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 5 2012 // The Kentucky Supreme Court has upheld a state law requiring an Amish sect to post orange safety triangles on their buggies, although the ruling is irrelevant because lawmakers changed the law earlier this year. The high...
Nov 2 2012 // A Christians-only health insurance plan will be allowed to continue coverage for Kentucky members until Jan. 1.Franklin County Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate made that decision on Wednesday. It means some 800 Kentuckians who...
Nov 1 2012 // Members of a Christians-only health insurance plan will lose their coverage on Thursday under a judge’s order to cease operations.Franklin County Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate found that Medi-Share doesn’t...
Oct 22 2012 // Members of a Christians-only health insurance plan that has been ordered to cease operations in Kentucky should get different policies immediately, the state Department of Insurance advised.The move follows Franklin County...
Oct 10 2012 // A Kentucky appellate court recently ruled that an injured volunteer firefighter is not eligible for permanent disability benefits because he had no “regular employment” — thus no average weekly wages with...
Oct 5 2012 // Kentucky has recommended that the Anthem Preferred Provider Organization serve as the benchmark plan for insurers in Kentucky under federal health care reforms.Anthem’s offerings would be the minimum level of...
Oct 4 2012 // A Christians-only health care ministry must cease operations in Kentucky unless it can get regulatory approval from the state Department of Insurance, a judge ruled this week.The ruling by Franklin County Circuit Judge...
Oct 2 2012 // Under a new law designed to curb prescription pill abuse, patients with long-term conditions requiring controlled substances have to submit to urine drug tests that aren’t always covered by insurance...
Sep 10 2012 // Workers’ compensation loss costs in Kentucky are down for the seventh consecutive year.The loss cost figures show an average reduction of 7.9 percent for the 590 industrial classes used in Kentucky. These classes...
Sep 6 2012 // Companies, municipalities and universities in Kentucky that contributed to what was once one of the largest hazardous waste facilities in the United States should have to pay for its cleanup, the group managing what is now...
Sep 6 2012 // Eddie and Sherri Granger’s new life running an antique store in West Liberty, Ky., collapsed in a heap of debris when a tornado demolished their nearly century-old building while tearing through this eastern Kentucky...
Sep 3 2012 // A Christians-only health care ministry that’s battling in court for the right to continue operating in Kentucky could get a reprieve from the Legislature.Sen. Tom Buford, chairman of the Senate Banking and Insurance...
Aug 29 2012 // Kentucky regulators said an annual filing most carriers will use to develop rates for workers’ comp coverage shows the seventh consecutive overall decrease in loss costs. The 2012 filing, approved by Kentucky’s...
Aug 29 2012 // A western Kentucky county is eyeing loggers and their trucks as the cause of damage to county roads. The Hopkins County Fiscal Court is weighing a measure to fine large trucks if they damage county roads while hauling big...
Aug 22 2012 // RiskMeter Online, a provider of real-time natural hazard risk reports, has added premium tax assessment data and effective dates to its Kentucky Premium Tax report. This additional information assists insurers in...
Aug 8 2012 // A judge will consider whether a Christians-only health care plan should be held in contempt of court more than a year after the Kentucky Supreme Court subjected it to stricter regulations that could have meant its demise...
Jul 31 2012 // Kentucky agriculture is reeling from a summertime one-two punch of blistering heat and dry conditions, and farmers are feeling the pain from the prospects of shrinking income and inflated expenses caused by weather-related...
Jul 30 2012 // A southern Kentucky county is still tackling the effects of and cleaning up from two major storms in recent years.Warren County officials said the cleanup from the 2009 ice storm and 2010 flooding could take into 2014....
Jul 23 2012 // Kentucky regulators have released a new license application that will allow retailers and insurance agents for the first time to sell insurance to cover the portable electronic devices such as laptop computers, cellphones,...
Jul 18 2012 // Long term care liability loss rates and claim severity have reached an eight-year high and are expected to grow steadily in 2013 against a backdrop of health care provider budget constraints and uncertainty about health...