Latest Kentucky Headlines
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Insurance Adjusters Survey Flood Damage at Kentucky Derby Museum
Aug 7 2009 // Much of the Kentucky Derby Museum’s prized collection is scattered on tables after extensive damage from flash flooding that hit Louisville. Insurance investigators toured the museum on Wednesday, a day after...
Kentucky National Enters Tennessee P/C Insurance Market
Aug 4 2009 // Kentucky National Insurance Co., a Lexington-based property/ casualty insurance company, began offering insurance to customers in Tennessee June 1, 2009. Kentucky National is offering auto, homeowners, boat, renters,...
Kentucky Officials Looking Into Counties’ Insurance Organization
Jul 13 2009 // The Kentucky Department of Insurance is reviewing the operations of a nonprofit group that provides insurance for most of the state’s counties. The action came after a series of newspaper articles in the Lexington...
Kentucky Officials Accused of Crimes Covered By Legal Insurance
Jul 6 2009 // Elected county officials in Kentucky who run afoul of the law can have their legal bills paid by a nonprofit lobbying group set up for the state’s counties. The Kentucky Association of Counties’ taxpayer-funded...
West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Insurer Approved in Kentucky
Jun 25 2009 // West Virginia’s BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co. said it received word this week that it has been approved to write workers’ compensation insurance in Kentucky. The expansion into Kentucky begins a “new...
Judge Says Feds Can Seize $30 Million from Kentucky Diet Scam Lawyers
Jun 22 2009 // Federal prosecutors may seize $30 million and three bank accounts from a pair of Kentucky lawyers convicted of bilking clients in a diet-drug settlement, a judge says. U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves on Thursday granted...
2 Kentucky Agents Sentenced for Workers’ Compensation Fraud
May 22 2009 // Two eastern Kentucky insurance agents and an agency employee have been ordered to pay fines, serve probationary sentences and perform public service work on their guilty pleas in a fraud case. The sentences were given to...
Cleanup Begins After Midwest Storms Kill 6
May 11 2009 // Residents of the Midwest began clearing away wreckage May 9 following a wave of powerful storms that splintered homes, knocked out power to thousands and killed six people. Hundreds of homes and businesses were damaged or...
Kentucky Offers Regional Vehicular Homicide Training
May 1 2009 // Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway announced that his office will train police officers and local prosecutors on the effective prosecution of vehicular homicide cases. Robert Stokes, the Commonwealth’s Traffic...
Kentucky Insurance Officials Assist Murfreesboro Storm Victims
Apr 21 2009 // Kentucky insurance officials are moving to assist victims of recent severe storms in the Murfreesboro area. The Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Insurance is setting up a temporary consumer center in...
Massey Energy Fined $2.5 Million for Fatal West Virginia Mine Fire
Apr 17 2009 // A Massey Energy subsidiary was fined $2.5 million fine this week after a federal judge accepted the company’s guilty plea to 10 criminal charges for a fire that killed two West Virginia coal miners. U.S. District...
Kentucky Fen-Phen Lawyers Ordered to Return $30M
Apr 9 2009 // Two disbarred lawyers convicted of scamming their former clients in a diet drug case out of millions of dollars must forfeit $30 million, a federal jury ruled Tuesday. Former attorneys William Gallion and Shirley...
Courthouse Bonding Decision Will Not Cost Kentucky
Apr 7 2009 // A new requirement that construction managers on 35 state courthouse projects insure the entire value of their work will not increase the state’s costs, an attorney investigating the projects said. But attorney...
Now Offering Contractor GL Insurance in Arkansas, Kentucky, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, New Jersey & South Carolina
Mar 17 2009 // National Contractors Insurance Company, Inc., a Risk Retention Group (“NCIC”) specializes in general liability insurance for licensed residential and commercial general and artisan contractors. NCIC writes the...
Workers Charge Kentucky Mine Safety Law ‘Under Attack’
Mar 6 2009 // Critics are complaining that three measures pending in the Kentucky legislature could undo key provisions of the state’s mine safety law. One would sharply reduce inspections performed by the Kentucky Office of Mine...
Kentucky Lawmaker’s Mine Cited For Safety Violation
Mar 4 2009 // A Kentucky lawmaker pushing to reduce the number of medics required at small mines owns a mine that was cited last year for not having the personnel on duty. The Lexington Herald-Leader reported that state inspectors last...
Kentucky’s Damages From January Ice Storm Top $185 Million
Feb 27 2009 // Kentucky and federal officials say damage estimates from the January ice storm will likely top $185 million. Kentucky’s Emergency Management director, Brig. Gen. John W. Heltzel, says the damages were primarily...
Kentucky Considers Forcing Drunk Drivers to Install Ignition Devices
Feb 24 2009 // People caught driving drunk in Kentucky just once could be forced to install breath-alcohol monitoring devices in their cars, as the state’s lawmakers consider joining other states, including Alaska, in toughening...
Kentucky Ice Storm Death Toll at 35; Early Losses at $130 Million
Feb 22 2009 // Kentucky officials say the Jan. 27 storm that blanketed the region with ice and snow took 35 lives. About 769,000 customers lost power at its peak, and almost 50,000 were still without power two weeks later. More than 100...
Kentucky Ice Storm Death Toll at 35; Early Losses at $130 Million
Feb 13 2009 // Kentucky officials say the Jan. 27 storm that blanketed the region with ice and snow has taken 35 lives. About 769,000 customers lost power at its peak, and almost 50,000 are still without power. The state has received a...
