All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 28 2011 // For many states, a law intended to root out corruption also has been good for the bottom line.Over the last decade, more than 20 states have passed a version of the federal anti-corruption law known as the False Claims Act...
Nov 22 2011 // An Amish teenager was killed when the horse-drawn buggy he was driving was struck from behind by a sport-utility vehicle in south-central Kentucky. State Police said the buggy did not display a slow-moving sign or...
Nov 21 2011 // General contractors in Kentucky who purchase their workers’ compensation insurance through an industry-run risk pool are slated to see millions in policyholder dividends.The Kentucky Associated General Contractors...
Nov 14 2011 // Kentucky’s Pulaski County Attorney and six former employees have settled a lawsuit alleging they were fired for supporting someone else for the job in the 2010 elections.Prestonsburg attorney Ned Pillersdorf, who...
Nov 9 2011 // A foreman has been killed at an underground mine in eastern Kentucky, the third mine-related fatality in the state in 10 days.State officials said in a statement that due to the recent deaths, analysts from the Office of...
Nov 7 2011 // Company Name State of Speciality 2010 TOTAL DPW Texas Mutual Insurance Co. TX 596,191 Old American County Mutual Fire Insurance Co. TX 575,100 SAIF Corporation OR 327,373 St. Johns Insurance Co. Inc. FL 257,106 Brickstreet...
Oct 26 2011 // A court in Lexington, Kentucky, has ruled that a nursing home should pay more than $1 million to a resident who was severely injured in a fall in an equipment storage room.Irene Hendrix was in her late 80s and had been...
Oct 20 2011 // Kentucky Republican state Rep. Bill Farmer of Lexington is planning to push a legislative measure that would impose new rules regarding the sale of scrap copper to try to cut down on thefts. Farmer said businesses and even...
Oct 14 2011 // A lawsuit filed by residents in southeastern Kentucky blames a mining company’s surface mining practices for stoking a flood that killed a man and damaged homes in Knox County this summer.The suit against Nally &...
Oct 12 2011 // Two Amish men in western Kentucky have been ordered to pay fines and could face jail time for refusing to post reflective triangles on their horse-drawn carriages.Levi Hostetler and Joe Stutzman were found guilty in short...
Oct 5 2011 // Kentucky has started self-insuring state-owned vehicles and expects to save $750,000 a year by doing so. The program took effect Saturday for 12,500 vehicles and pieces of equipment. The vehicles were previously insured...
Oct 3 2011 // USI, First Place InsuranceNew York-based USI Insurance Services has acquired substantially all of the assets of First Place Insurance Agency Ltd. (First Place Insurance) of Youngstown, Ohio, from First Place Financial...
Oct 3 2011 // AssuredPartners, Neace LukensFlorida-based AssuredPartners Inc. has acquired the Neace Lukens, a Kentucky-based insurance agency, as part of a plan to build a national insurance brokerage firm. AssuredPartners is a member...
Oct 3 2011 // A western Kentucky lawmaker is trying to find a compromise in the debate over a law that requires slow-moving vehicles to display a reflective triangle, a requirement that Amish men say infringes on their religious...
Sep 21 2011 // Florida-based AssuredPartners Inc. has acquired the Neace Lukens, a Kentucky-based insurance agency, as part of a plan to build a national insurance brokerage firm.AssuredPartners is a member company of GTCR, a Chicago...
Sep 21 2011 // A western Kentucky lawmaker is trying to find a compromise in the debate over a law that requires slow-moving vehicles to display a reflective triangle, a requirement that Amish men say infringes on their religious...
Sep 14 2011 // Nine Amish men in Kentucky who refused to display an orange reflective triangle on their horse-drawn buggies have been ordered to jail for not paying court-imposed fines.The men belong to the ultraconservative Old Order...
Sep 13 2011 // Officials with the International Bluegrass Museum in Owensboro, Kentucky, are considering more safety measures as it plans for future music festivals.Daviess County leaders met with museum officials last week to begin...
Sep 2 2011 // Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Insurance (KEMI) and the Kentucky Restaurant Association (KRA) have launched a new workers’ compensation program. KEMI is partnering with KRA to make workers’ comp benefits...
Sep 2 2011 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor has revoked the resident insurance agent license of Sheri Lyn Sharp, of Burlington, Ky., for violations of Ohio insurance law.Sharp wrote...