All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 13 2022 // Ford Motor Co. has awarded a volunteer fire department more than $40,000 raised from the sale of timber harvested at the future site of twin electric vehicle battery plants in Kentucky.The donation to the Glendale...
May 20 2022 // Two of the oldest insurance agencies in Central Kentucky have merged. Rightmyer Insurance Agency in Danville, founded in the 1930s, has joined forces with Sam Dexter Insurance Agency, which began in 1954, according to a...
May 18 2022 // The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration has cited the owners of an eastern Kentucky surface mine where a worker was killed in January by a falling tree, according to a published report.Nally & Hamilton...
May 2 2022 // Kentucky has become the 21st state to adopt a data security law that will require insurers and larger agencies to beef up measures designed to help prevent cyber attacks and data breaches.Gov. Andy Beshear in April signed...
Apr 25 2022 // Sundays at the Bullock home in rural Kentucky were once filled with lasting memories: big family dinners, cornhole, basketball and karaoke.Those gatherings ended the night of Dec. 10, when a massive tornado obliterated...
Apr 22 2022 // The last stockpiles of a deadly chemical agent in the U.S. have been safely eliminated, according to Kentucky officials in charge of destroying the Cold War-era weapons.The final M55 rocket containing VX nerve agent was...
Mar 25 2022 // Kentucky’s General Assembly has become the only legislature so far this year to adopt a bill that could give insurers lower rates on commercial loans from the Federal Home Loan Bank system.The Kentucky Senate this...
Feb 25 2022 // A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against a northern Kentucky police department after two officers fatally shot an armed man during a traffic stop.The family of Randall Lockaby, 57, of Manchester filed suit last week...
Feb 21 2022 // Many in the insurance industry may think of the Federal Home Loan Bank as an agency that facilitates affordable mortgages for homes.The system, founded in the waning days of the Herbert Hoover administration to support...
Feb 10 2022 // Kentucky homeowners affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and economic slowdown can now apply for assistance to help pay insurance, mortgages and property taxes, the state’s governor announced.The program is funded...
Feb 8 2022 // Although a black maintenance worker suffered “intolerable racial harassment” from co-workers at a Kentucky manufacturer, the employer took steps to investigate and end the practices and cannot be held...
Jan 19 2022 // Ten months ago, historic flooding in eastern Kentucky displaced dozens of people and damaged homes and businesses all along the Kentucky River. The flooding also caused an embankment on Panbowl Lake, near Jackson,...
Jan 11 2022 // Kentucky lawmakers, back in session, are planning to take up tornado-recovery legislation this week, with the goal of quickly distributing an initial round of assistance, House Speaker David Osborne said.The newly...
Jan 6 2022 // Charles Taylor, a claims management and insurtech firm, announced it has acquired Kentucky-based Underwriters Safety & Claims, a third-party administrator. US&C, headquartered in Louisville but with offices around...
Jan 5 2022 // Premium finance companies are permitted to extend due dates for premiums and other charges in the wake of tornadoes that ripped through the state in December, the Kentucky insurance commissioner announced.Finance companies...
Jan 3 2022 // Storms over the New Year’s Day weekend knocked out power, caused property damage, triggered flash flooding and snow and closed schools and government offices.In Kentucky, less than three weeks after tornadoes...
Jan 3 2022 // An independent adjuster who helped Central Kentucky tobacco farmers file millions of dollars in fraudulent crop insurance claims is the latest member of a fraud ring to face prison time for the scheme.Timothy Douglas...
Dec 17 2021 // Workers who were injured at a candle factory that was demolished by a tornado in Mayfield, Kentucky, have filed suit against the manufacturer, alleging that managers had threatened to fire employees who wanted to leave...
Dec 16 2021 // A number of insurance agencies in southwestern Kentucky sustained damage at their own offices during the massive tornado rampage last weekend, including one insurance firm that lost its entire building in hard-hit...
Dec 14 2021 // The Mayfield Consumer Products factory was the third-biggest employer in this corner of western Kentucky, an important economic engine that churned out candles that lined the shelves of malls around the U.S.But why its...