All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 3 2011 // The spring forest fire season in Kentucky has officially come to an end.The state Division of Forestry says fire hazard season ended April 30, but they urge Kentucky residents to use caution. The statement says although...
Apr 4 2011 // An argument over whether a state law requiring bright orange safety triangles to be displayed on certain slow-moving vehicles violates religious freedom came before the Kentucky Court of Appeals.A lawyer for nine Amish men...
Mar 31 2011 // Calling a police officer a “fat slob” is not an offense that can usually get someone charged, a federal appeals court ruled recently, allowing a lawsuit over the arrest to go forward.Kenneth Kennedy’s...
Mar 30 2011 // Wells Fargo Insurance Services USA Inc. has named Patrick Conway as managing director of its insurance operations in Kentucky. Working with local offices and bank partners, Conway will manage distribution of the...
Mar 29 2011 // More than 200 of Kentucky’s 1,000 dams in Kentucky are considered high hazards, which threaten property, people and animals if breached. Marilyn Thomas, environmental engineer consultant for the Dam Safety Branch of...
Mar 21 2011 // The evolution of the cab has come. Those who enjoy a night of drinking can now hire a company to give them rides home in their own car instead of in one of the yellow checkered variety.Leaders of BeMyDD, or Be My...
Mar 16 2011 // Nearing the close of its regular legislative session, Kentucky lawmakers enacted bills designed to crack down on fraudulent auto personal insurance claims and bring the state in line with new federal tax requirements for...
Mar 15 2011 // A group of condominium owners in northern Kentucky is hoping a judge’s ruling will give them an opportunity to collect several million dollars from a defunct construction company they say did shoddy work on their...
Mar 7 2011 // An audit has found the Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Funding Commission paid about $510,000 to a private financial adviser when the law requires it to use state-employed advisers.State auditor Crit Luallen said the...
Feb 22 2011 // An audit has found the Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Funding Commission paid about $510,000 to a private financial adviser when the law requires it to use state-employed advisers.Auditor Crit Luallen said the...
Feb 7 2011 // Florida-based insurance agency Brown & Brown, Inc. has named regional vice presidents in Washington, Florida, Louisiana and Pennsylvania. Eric E. Anderson, Anthony M. Grippa, Thomas Keith Huval and Richard A. Knudson,...
Jan 26 2011 // Neace Lukens, a Louisville, Kentucky based brokerage firm, recently acquired the Lent Agency, a Dayton, Ohio insurance agency.The merger will add 12 Lent Agency employees, including four producers, to the Neace Lukens...
Jan 20 2011 // An astronomy professor who sued the University of Kentucky after claiming he lost out on a top job because of his Christian beliefs reached a settlement Tuesday with the school.The university agreed to pay $125,000 to...
Jan 12 2011 // An attorney who was disbarred after representing clients in a multimillion-dollar diet drug settlement has been indicted on a fraudulent insurance acts charge.The Lexington Herald-Leader reported that a Fayette County...
Jan 6 2011 // Federal mine safety officials have won a settlement with Massey Energy that requires the firm to immediately take safety measures at one of its mines in Kentucky that federal officials say is very dangerous.The U.S....
Jan 5 2011 // Intellectual Property Insurance Services Corp. (IPISC), based in Louisville, Kentucky, has appointed Sandra Walker as vice president of Litigation Management. Walker’s chief responsibility is to assist Insureds with...
Jan 5 2011 // Defense lawyers for former Kentucky lawmaker Steve Nunn may argue that he had a mental or emotional defect when his former fiancee was shot to death. The Lexington Herald-Leader reported that Nunn attorneys have filed...
Jan 4 2011 // Lousiville, Kentucky-based Neace Lukens has acquired the Plamp-Keen Agency Inc., an insurance agency also in Louisville that specializes in horse-related coverages. The merger adds 10 employees from Plamp-Keen, including...
Dec 29 2010 // Traffic deaths in Kentucky are on pace to be the lowest this year since at least the early 1990s.As of last Wednesday, there were 739 traffic fatalities in Kentucky, according to the state highway safety office’s web...
Dec 21 2010 // An astronomer argues that his Christian faith and his peers’ belief that he is an evolution skeptic kept him from getting a prestigious job as the director of a new student observatory at the University of...