All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 4 2007 // An attorney representing a Kentucky woman suing Allstate Insurance Co. in a $1.4 billion trial accused the insurance giant of using delay tactics and schemes to prod injury victims into accepting lower offers for pain and...
Oct 4 2007 // Kentucky farmers struggling to cope with a prolonged drought can seek emergency loans to help offset crop losses after state officials received word Tuesday of a federal disaster declaration due to the dry...
Oct 2 2007 // A civil trial regarding Allstate Insurance Co.’s procedures for handling claims began in Fayette County Circuit Court this week.Geneva Hager, of Richmond, Ky., filed a $1.425 billion civil lawsuit claiming the...
Sep 28 2007 // Gov. Ernie Fletcher has won a national award for historic highway safety measures that have resulted in a decrease in traffic fatalities in Kentucky.Fletcher received the 2007 Peter K. O’Rourke Special Achievement...
Sep 27 2007 // Gov. Ernie Fletcher joined state and local officials in Williamsburg, Ky., to break ground on the I-75/KY 92 interchange project – a long-awaited improvement that will mean greater safety and less traffic congestion...
Sep 25 2007 // In a blunt assessment to fellow doctors, Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher said Monday that chances of limiting pain-and-suffering damages in medical malpractice cases are bleak because of resistance from some state lawmakers....
Sep 19 2007 // A filing most Kentucky insurance carriers will use to develop rates for workers’ compensation coverage shows another decrease in loss costs for 2007, according to Gov. Ernie Fletcher.The state Office of Insurance...
Aug 31 2007 // Crop loss across Kentucky prompted by the third driest May through August in the past 113 years forced Gov. Ernie Fletcher to request U.S. Department of Agriculture disaster assistance for farmers across the...
Aug 30 2007 // Federal investigators released their final report Tuesday on last summer’s deadly crash of a Comair flight in Kentucky, finding that the pilots were primarily responsible but making safety recommendations that extend...
Aug 30 2007 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of “A” (Excellent) and assigned an issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a” to New York-based Sompo Japan Insurance Company of America (SJA)....
Aug 29 2007 // The sole survivor from the airliner that crashed after taking off from the wrong runway at Lexington, Ky.’s Blue Grass Airport, killing 49 people, is suing the company that designed the runway and taxiway...
Aug 23 2007 // The head of Kentucky’s Medicaid program is stepping down at the end of the month after a little more than a year on the job. Kentucky Medicaid Commissioner Glenn Jennings, 56, will be replaced by Shawn Crouch after...
Aug 21 2007 // A runaway cement truck slammed into a Kentucky Air National Guard building that was unoccupied at the time, authorities said.The truck came to a stop inside the building in South Louisville about 5:30 a.m. on Aug 16,...
Aug 21 2007 // A fire on a railroad track crossing the Ohio River left Kentucky and Illinois firefighters with a conundrum.They were surrounded by water, but it wasn’t close enough to the flaming crossties on the Canadian National...
Aug 16 2007 // Comair has named the federal government, Blue Grass Airport and an airport administrator in federal lawsuits filed against the airline by families of victims of last year’s fatal crash in Kentucky.Comair spokeswoman...
Aug 15 2007 // A lead investigator of last summer’s deadly Comair plane crash in Kentucky that killed 49 people says the accident exposed “latent failures” across the nation’s aviation system.In an eight-page...
Aug 10 2007 // A federal appeals court on Wednesday ordered the resentencing of a former Kentucky executive convicted in an insurance fraud case but upheld a 10-year sentence for the company’s CEO.The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of...
Aug 8 2007 // A spike in motorcycle fatalities this summer has prompted the Kentucky State Police to mount a campaign focusing on safety.Patrick McCabe had his third motorcycle accident this past May, a crash in which he fractured...
Aug 7 2007 // An eastern Kentucky coal miner claims he has been targeted by a Virginia company because he spoke out against unsafe working conditions at one of the company’s mines.Charles Howard, of Roxana, filed a complaint with...
Aug 7 2007 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has awarded its first professional designation to Kathy Horsley of the Kentucky Office of Insurance.Horsley earned the Associate Professional of Insurance Regulation...