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Kentucky Suspends Lawyers Who Won $200M Fen-Phen Case

Aug 28 2006 // Three attorneys have been temporarily suspended from practicing law in Kentucky because of questions about the way they divided a $200 million settlement from a fen-phen lawsuit.The Kentucky Supreme Court took the action...

Fen-Phen Attorneys Should Be Suspended, Says Kentucky Bar

Aug 22 2006 // Three Lexington, Kentucky lawyers involved in a massive fen-phen case should be temporarily suspended from practicing law because of how they appropriated their clients’ shares of a $200 million settlement, an...

Eastern Kentucky University Taps Christensen for Insurance Chair

Aug 22 2006 // The new Robert B. Morgan Chair of Insurance at Eastern Kentucky University brings 30 years of experience as an attorney and executive officer in the insurance industry. Burke A. Christensen most recently served as chief...

Rough riding for workers’ comp on the racetrack

Aug 21 2006 // The problem of providing workers’ compensation insurance for jockeys and backstretch workers, such as grooms and exercise riders, in the horse racing industry is a complicated one. Only four states —...

Rough riding for workers’ comp on the racetrack

Aug 21 2006 // The problem of providing workers’ compensation insurance for jockeys and backstretch workers, such as grooms and exercise riders, in the horse racing industry is a complicated one. Only four states —...

Rough riding for workers’ comp on the racetrack

Aug 21 2006 // The problem of providing workers’ compensation insurance for jockeys and backstretch workers, such as grooms and exercise riders, in the horse racing industry is a complicated one. Only four states —...

OSHA to Probe Death at Kentucky Steel Mill

Aug 1 2006 // The federal Occupational, Safety and Health Administration will investigate the death of a worker at a steel mill construction site in Mississippi’s Lowndes County.County Coroner Greg Merchant said Tony Vic...

Kentucky Fines Retarded Adults’ Center for Safety Violations

Jul 28 2006 // Kentucky’s largest center for mentally retarded adults has been fined $1.4 million for not correcting health and safety violations, state officials announced.The state inspector general’s office under the...

Brown & Brown Acquires Kentucky-based The Anderson Group

Jul 5 2006 // The acquisition of The Anderson Group of Owensboro, Ky., has been announced by Brown & Brown Inc. of Daytona Beach and Tampa, Fla. The announcement was made jointly by J. Scott Penny, Brown & Brown regional...

Five Arrested in Western Kentucky University Fire

Jun 26 2006 // It will cost more than $1.3 million to repair Western Kentucky University’s Cherry Hall, which was damaged by an arson fire April 23. Western’s President Gary Ransdell said the university has about half the...

Kentucky Office of Insurance Appoints New Executive Director

Jun 26 2006 // Julie Mix McPeak, an attorney with more than a decade of legal and administrative experience in state government, has been appointed executive director of the Kentucky Office of Insurance by Governor Ernie Fletcher.McPeak...

Employers’ Mutual one of the ‘Top-10’ places to work in Kentucky

Jun 19 2006 // Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Insurance has been named one of the top-10 Best Places to Work in Kentucky.Located in Lexington, KEMI is Kentucky’s leading provider of workers’ compensation insurance. The...

Australian Company Selling Bogus Products in Kentucky, Being Investigated Elsewhere

Jun 9 2006 // An Australian company, Sinclair Insurance Co. Ltd. is selling amusement ride and professional liability insurance products in Kentucky without a certificate of authority from the state, according to the Kentucky Office of...

Employers’ Mutual in ‘Top-10’ Places to Work in Ky.

May 30 2006 // Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Insurance has announced it has been named one of the top-10 Best Places to Work in Kentucky. Located in Lexington, KEMI is Kentucky’s leading provider of workers’ compensation...

Washington Insurance Commissioner Seeks Legal Redress for Failed Insurer

May 18 2006 // Editor’s Note, March 2009: In response to a complaint that the Insurance Journal reported only one side of the preceding story, and as a means of resolving Anthony Huff’s claims against the Insurance...

Tornados foretell things to come

May 8 2006 // As emergency planners and hurricane experts from across the U.S. met in April to plan and prepare for the hurricane season, the timing couldn’t have been better, as massive twisters roared down “tornado...

Tornado ploughs across Tenn., Ky., resulting in thousands of claims

May 8 2006 // In the aftermath of a large F-3 to F-4 tornado, hundreds of carriers and insurance agents in northern Tennessee and southern Kentucky are paying hundreds of claims.The storm formed April 7 at about 7 p.m., touching down in...

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May 8 2006 // Tornado ploughs across Tenn., Ky., resulting in thousands of claimsIn the aftermath of a large F-3 to F-4 tornado, thousands of carriers and insurance agents in northern Tennessee and southern Kentucky are paying thousands...

Editor’s Note: Tornados foretell things to come

May 8 2006 // As emergency planners and hurricane experts from across the U.S. met in April to plan and prepare for the hurricane season, the timing couldn’t have been better, as massive twisters roared down “tornado...

Kentucky Obtains Approval on New Medicaid Plan

May 5 2006 // Kentucky’s plan to revamp its Medicaid program by offering participants different benefits to suit their health problems has been approved by the federal government, officials said in Frankfort, Ky.The new coverage...