All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...
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...
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 —...
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 —...
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 —...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...