Latest Kentucky Headlines

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Ratings Recap: Am. Physicians, RenRe No. Am. (debt), Century/Brandywine, Ky. Growers

Mar 19 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “a-” of American Physicians Group and its primary member, American Physicians...

Kentucky League of Cities Under Fire for Keeping Deputy, Insurance Chief

Mar 8 2010 // Criticism of the Kentucky League of Cities is mounting over a state audit that criticized its spending, and some member cities are withholding their dues.The Lexington Herald-Leader reported that some cities are displeased...

Business Moves

Mar 7 2010 // Keystone Insurers Group, Rowland, Rudd, Peel & HollandPennsylvania-based Keystone Insurers Group (KIG) has added three more Kentucky agencies as partners. Those agencies are: Rowland Insurance Agency Inc., with...

Business Moves

Mar 7 2010 // Northern CapitalFlorida’s Northern Capital Insurance Co. did not come up with the capital it needed to retain its Financial Stability Rating of “A, Exceptional” from Demotech, Inc. by the deadline, so the...

Wal-Mart to Pay $11.7 Million to Settle U.S. Gender Bias Lawsuit

Mar 3 2010 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will pay more than $11.7 million to settle a gender discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency said.The lawsuit accused the world’s largest...

Kentucky Governor Urges Workers Compensation Rate Cut

Mar 3 2010 // Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has asked the state’s largest workers’ compensation insurer to consider returning some of its $147 million surplus as a premium reduction or dividend to the small businesses that it...

Kentucky Court to Wal-Mart: Pay Workers’ Comp to Employee Who Sued

Feb 24 2010 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has lost its bid to deny workers compensation benefits to an employee who also received a $900,000 civil award from two third parties.The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruling on Feb. 19 in Wal-Mart Stores...

Keystone Insurers Adds Peel & Holland Agency in Kentucky

Feb 23 2010 // Peel & Holland Financial Group, based in Benton, Ky., has become the newest Kentucky partner within Keystone Insurers Group (KIG), the nation’s sixth largest privately-held property/casualty agency. Peel &...

Keystone Insurers Adds 2 More Kentucky Agencies; Total Now 13

Feb 16 2010 // Keystone Insurers Group (KIG) is continuing its expansion in Kentucky. The company announced it has added Rowland Insurance and Rudd Insurance to its growing list of partner agencies in Kentucky.These two firms join...

Special Reuters Report: Inside Toyota’s Epic Breakdown

Feb 10 2010 // Toyota Motor Corp., the world’s most dominant and profitable automaker, was not accustomed to outsiders telling it what to do, let alone some obscure bureaucrat from the United States, whose own car industry was on...

Keystone Insurers Continues Kentucky Expansion; Adds 5 Agencies

Feb 8 2010 // Five more insurance agencies have joined the Keystone Insurers Group in Kentucky, bringing to 11 the total number of KIG agencies in the state.The latest to join are Hayes-Utley-Hedgspeth, Moore Insurance, Cambridge...

Keystone Insurers Adds 4 More Kentucky Agencies

Jan 26 2010 // Limestone Insurance, Lexington Insurance Agency, Inc., Durrett Insurance and Insuramax have joined Keystone Insurers Group (KIG), bringing KIG’s number of agencies in Kentucky to six. Keystone is the nation’s...

Kentucky Supreme Court Curbs State Use of Private Agency Funds

Jan 25 2010 // In a case involving two workers’ compensation funds, the Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that lawmakers and the governor cannot replenish the state’s general fund using monies from accounts with commingled...

Keystone Insurers Group Adds 2 Agencies in Kentucky to Network

Jan 12 2010 // C.M. Moore Insurance of Bowling Green and Al Torstrick Insurance of Lexington will be the first franchises in Kentucky for Keystone Insurers Group (KIG), the nation’s sixth largest privately-held property/casualty...

Audits Hit Insurance Providers for Kentucky Cities, Counties

Jan 10 2010 // A state audit of a Kentucky municipal association – the second in as many months – has found problems with compensation, spending, conflicts of interest and procurement matters including in the operation of the...

British Insurer Aviva Purchases Kentucky Firm

Jan 6 2010 // British insurance company Aviva PLC has agreed to buy all the shares in River Road Asset Management of Louisville, Kentucky. Aviva did not say what it is paying for the company, which has gross assets of $6 million and...

U.S. Mine Deaths At Record Low

Jan 4 2010 // The number of miners killed on the job in the United States fell for a second straight year to 34, the fewest since officials began keeping records nearly a century ago.That was down from the previous low of 52 in 2008....

Cheerleader, Teacher Sues ‘Dirty’ Web Site in Kentucky for Libel

Jan 4 2010 // A Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader who also works as a school teacher in northern Kentucky is suing a gossip Web site for libel over a posting that she says falsely claims she was exposed to two venereal diseases.The woman,...

Kentucky Couple Charged with Arson in House Fire

Dec 30 2009 // A central Kentucky couple have pleaded not guilty to charges that they damaged their rental home by intentionally setting it on fire.The Lexington Herald-Leader reported that 31-year-old Debra Poole and 29-year-old Anthony...

Kentucky Bans State Workers From Texting While Driving

Dec 22 2009 // Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has banned state employees from sending text messages while driving government-owned vehicles.Beshear issued an executive order that says he took the step in an effort to reduce the number of...