All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 23 2005 // James Robinson Huber has been appointed senior vice president and regional executive, Southeast Region for ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of The ACE Group of Companies. Based in Atlanta, Huber will be...
May 23 2005 // Premiums for homeowners insurance in Kentucky aren’t rising as quickly as they did in past years, and some insurers said rates are coming down. “Rates are staying fairly stable with only small increases,”...
May 23 2005 // The Kentucky Office of Insurance has given the Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Fund a clean bill of health after completing an audit of the fund. KESA insures more than 5,100 groups and had 2004 premiums of about $67...
May 23 2005 // GEORGIALicensing System Changes The Georgia Insurance Comm-ission held “Ind-ustry Day Meet-ings” across the state in May to discuss recent changes to the licensing system.In an effort to be responsive to agent...
May 23 2005 // James Robinson Huber has been appointed senior vice president and regional executive, Southeast Region for ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of The ACE Group of Companies. Based in Atlanta, Huber will be...
Apr 28 2005 // Martin J. Koetters, a veteran insurance industry executive appointed to lead the Kentucky Office of Insurance last summer, has left the job suddenly and without explanation.Koetters’ departure was revealed Thursday...
Apr 21 2005 // Lloyd’s of London is celebrating its 20th anniversary as a supporter of the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Since the mid-1980s, Lloyd’s of London underwriters, brokers and their Kentucky agents have given...
Apr 8 2005 // Franklin Circuit Court Judge William Graham signed an order April 7 enabling AIK COMP rehabilitator Martin J. Koetters to continue his efforts on behalf of the financially troubled self-insured group workers’...
Apr 4 2005 // Gregory Van Tatenhove, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, and Karl Stankovic, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives, Louisville Field Division, jointly...
Apr 4 2005 // The Kentucky Office of Insurance has published a consumer’s booklet “Aft-er the Storm Has Passed, Settling Dis-aster Claims: Who to Call and What to Do.”The eight-page booklet features a check-sheet...
Mar 28 2005 // Main Source Insurance Group Inc. has sold its Owensboro, Ky. Operation to The Anderson Group and spun off its insurance operations in two states into a new subsidiary. The Anderson Group is an Owensboro agency that offers...
Mar 23 2005 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies has applauded passage of new laws by the Kentucky General Assembly to clean up misconceptions in existing statutes.Prior to adjourning Kentucky lawmakers passed House...
Mar 9 2005 // The Kentucky Office of Insurance has just published a consumer’s booklet “After the Storm Has Passed, Settling Disaster Claims: Who to Call and What to Do.”The eight-page booklet features a check-sheet...
Mar 7 2005 // A warning to prepare for the worst and hope for the best has been issued by researchers who discovered late last year that when Hurricane Ivan tore across the southeastern U.S. it brought with it wind-borne soybean rust...
Mar 4 2005 // Two Kentucky physicians were elected to the Subscribers Advisory Committee (Board) for Healthcare Underwriters Group of Kentucky (HU), a doctor-owned and governed medical professional liability insurance company, at the...
Feb 24 2005 // Residents of Todd County in the southwestern corner of Kentucky packed the courthouse this week to ask the fiscal court to reconsider a 3.5 percent insurance tax they say doesn’t treat all county residents equally. A...
Feb 21 2005 // Rising property prices and a healthy economy after the election year have encouraged competition for casualty business. Although account size is sometimes a factor in the directions prices move, E&S specialists say...
Feb 11 2005 // Widespread resident’s disapproval of a proposal to levy an 8 percent tax on insurance premiums has resulted in its defeat in Clark County, Ky. Fiscal Court. A standing-room-only crowd of almost 400 people attended a...
Feb 9 2005 // A bill imposing restrictions on marketing of insurance to U.S. soldiers on military bases has been introduced by Rep. Geoff Davis (R-Kentucky). The Military Personnel Financial Services Protection Act would make it clear...
Feb 7 2005 // College professors in Kentucky have joined the ranks of Americans claiming health effects from mold contamination. According to the Maysville Ledger-Independent, Mayville Community College faculty, including two nursing...