Latest Kentucky Headlines
All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Kentucky Residents Sue Over Nuplex Chemical Spill
Mar 30 2010 // Residents of a southern Louisville neighborhood have sued Nuplex Resins over a chemical spill that sent vapors through sewer pipes. The Louisville Courier-Journal reported that three people filed the suit last Friday in...
McDonald’s Settles with Kentucky Worker Over Strip Search
Mar 29 2010 // Fast food giant McDonald’s has withdrawn a petition to the Kentucky Supreme Court over a $6.1 million award to a former fast food worker who was forced to strip after someone called posing as a police officer. The...
Kentucky Employers Mutual Agrees to $30.8 Million Dividend
Mar 29 2010 // Kentucky’s major workers’ compensation insurance carrier has decided to return some of its surplus to policyholders. The decision comes after several weeks of political pressure. Earlier this month, Gov. Steve...
Kentucky Senate Advances Texting While Driving Ban
Mar 26 2010 // A bill seeking to ban people from sending text messages while driving in Kentucky has won approval from the state Senate. The measure would prohibit drivers from writing, sending or reading text messages when their vehicle...
Ratings Recap: Am. Physicians, RenRe No. Am. (debt), Century/Brandywine, Ky. Growers
Mar 19 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “a-” of American Physicians Group and its primary member, American Physicians...
Kentucky League of Cities Under Fire for Keeping Deputy, Insurance Chief
Mar 8 2010 // Criticism of the Kentucky League of Cities is mounting over a state audit that criticized its spending, and some member cities are withholding their dues. The Lexington Herald-Leader reported that some cities are...
Business Moves
Mar 7 2010 // Keystone Insurers Group, Rowland, Rudd, Peel & Holland Pennsylvania-based Keystone Insurers Group (KIG) has added three more Kentucky agencies as partners. Those agencies are: Rowland Insurance Agency Inc., with...
Business Moves
Mar 7 2010 // Northern Capital Florida’s Northern Capital Insurance Co. did not come up with the capital it needed to retain its Financial Stability Rating of “A, Exceptional” from Demotech, Inc. by the deadline, so...
Wal-Mart to Pay $11.7 Million to Settle U.S. Gender Bias Lawsuit
Mar 3 2010 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will pay more than $11.7 million to settle a gender discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency said. The lawsuit accused the world’s largest...
Kentucky Governor Urges Workers Compensation Rate Cut
Mar 3 2010 // Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has asked the state’s largest workers’ compensation insurer to consider returning some of its $147 million surplus as a premium reduction or dividend to the small businesses that it...
Kentucky Court to Wal-Mart: Pay Workers’ Comp to Employee Who Sued
Feb 24 2010 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has lost its bid to deny workers compensation benefits to an employee who also received a $900,000 civil award from two third parties. The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruling on Feb. 19 in Wal-Mart Stores...
Keystone Insurers Adds Peel & Holland Agency in Kentucky
Feb 23 2010 // Peel & Holland Financial Group, based in Benton, Ky., has become the newest Kentucky partner within Keystone Insurers Group (KIG), the nation’s sixth largest privately-held property/casualty agency. Peel &...
Keystone Insurers Adds 2 More Kentucky Agencies; Total Now 13
Feb 16 2010 // Keystone Insurers Group (KIG) is continuing its expansion in Kentucky. The company announced it has added Rowland Insurance and Rudd Insurance to its growing list of partner agencies in Kentucky. These two firms join...
Special Reuters Report: Inside Toyota’s Epic Breakdown
Feb 10 2010 // Toyota Motor Corp., the world’s most dominant and profitable automaker, was not accustomed to outsiders telling it what to do, let alone some obscure bureaucrat from the United States, whose own car industry was on...
Keystone Insurers Continues Kentucky Expansion; Adds 5 Agencies
Feb 8 2010 // Five more insurance agencies have joined the Keystone Insurers Group in Kentucky, bringing to 11 the total number of KIG agencies in the state. The latest to join are Hayes-Utley-Hedgspeth, Moore Insurance, Cambridge...
Keystone Insurers Adds 4 More Kentucky Agencies
Jan 26 2010 // Limestone Insurance, Lexington Insurance Agency, Inc., Durrett Insurance and Insuramax have joined Keystone Insurers Group (KIG), bringing KIG’s number of agencies in Kentucky to six. Keystone is the nation’s...
Kentucky Supreme Court Curbs State Use of Private Agency Funds
Jan 25 2010 // In a case involving two workers’ compensation funds, the Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that lawmakers and the governor cannot replenish the state’s general fund using monies from accounts with commingled...
Keystone Insurers Group Adds 2 Agencies in Kentucky to Network
Jan 12 2010 // C.M. Moore Insurance of Bowling Green and Al Torstrick Insurance of Lexington will be the first franchises in Kentucky for Keystone Insurers Group (KIG), the nation’s sixth largest privately-held property/casualty...
Audits Hit Insurance Providers for Kentucky Cities, Counties
Jan 10 2010 // A state audit of a Kentucky municipal association – the second in as many months – has found problems with compensation, spending, conflicts of interest and procurement matters including in the operation of the...
British Insurer Aviva Purchases Kentucky Firm
Jan 6 2010 // British insurance company Aviva PLC has agreed to buy all the shares in River Road Asset Management of Louisville, Kentucky. Aviva did not say what it is paying for the company, which has gross assets of $6 million and...
