Latest Kentucky Headlines
All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
KY Workers’ Comp Official Resigns
Jul 1 2004 // The head of the Kentucky agency that regulates workers’ compensation insurance resigned from his position. The Associated Press reported that Larry Greathouse, Kentucky’s commissioner of the Department of...
PCI: Reform Needed to Prevent Future Workers’ Comp Problems in Kentucky
Jun 30 2004 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) is calling on Kentucky lawmakers to make changes to the workers’ compensation program in the Commonwealth in order to prevent future financial collapses...
Federal/Ky. Officials Offer Compliance Assistance
Jun 29 2004 // The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the Kentucky Office of Insurance (KOI) are teaming up to provide assistance for employers, including small business owners, struggling to comply with state and federal laws related to...
Ky. Gov. Reports Extension for Homeland Security Grant Deadline Due to Storms
Jun 22 2004 // The Office of Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher has extended the deadline for the 2004 Homeland Security grant application process from June 25 to July 9, 2004. “Since the storms hit the commonwealth during the last...
W. Va. Lawmakers Study Home Insurance Costs
Jun 16 2004 // At least one insurance company tends to charge West Virginians more to cover their homes than residents in surrounding states, even when its losses are greater in the other states, according to a presentation given to...
Ky. A.G. Warns Residents About Fly-by-Night Storm Chasers Following Recent Weather
Jun 9 2004 // Recent storms in Kentucky have resulted in wide spread wind and flood damage affecting many consumers. Attorney General Greg Stumbo is warning residents needing repair work done quickly to repair storm damaged homes and...
FEMA Reps to Tour at Least Five Ky. Counties
Jun 1 2004 // Representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) are touring storm damaged counties in Kentucky today to determine if the commonwealth qualifies for federal disaster relief. The Governor’s Office...
IIAK Holding 108th Annual Convention in Bowling Green
May 25 2004 // Independent agents from throughout the state of Kentucky will converge in Bowling Green from June 17-19, for what will be the 108th Annual Convention of the Independent Insurance Agents of Kentucky (IIAK). Featured at this...
Ky. Gov. Reappoints Judge to Dept. of Workers Claims
May 19 2004 // Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher announced the reappointment of Madisonville Judge Richard Joiner as an administrative law judge in the Department of Workers Claims. An administrative law judge conducts conferences and...
BB&T Insurance Services to Purchase Ky. Agency
May 13 2004 // North Carolina-based BB&T Insurance Services plans to buy Lexington-based Employee Benefit Services of Kentucky. The acquisition would give BB&T its third Kentucky agency and second in Lexington. BB&T...
Former Ky. State Policeman Found Guilty on Charges of Workers’ Comp Fraud
May 3 2004 // West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission Executive Director Gregory Burton announced that a former Kentucky state police officer has been convicted in Kanawha County Circuit Court of felony workers’...
Kentucky Market Gallops Along Under Acting Executive Director
May 3 2004 // With agents witnessing increasing competition in Kentucky’s property/casualty market, Kentucky Office of Insurance Acting Executive Director Glenn Jennings recently talked with Insurance Journal Southeast. Jennings...
Ky. Account Executive Nominated Big ‘I’ President-Elect; Fla.’s Soto Named Next VP
Apr 29 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America ‘s (the Big “I”) National Board of State Directors has nominated William Stiglitz III as the association’s president-elect and has elected...
Ky.’s Bunning Named 2003 IIABA Legislator of the Year
Apr 22 2004 // U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) was presented the 2003 Gerald Solomon Legislator of the Year Award by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA) during the Association’s 28th annual National...
KENTUCKY OFFICE ENHANCES ONLINE SERVICES FOR AGENTS:
Apr 5 2004 // Kentucky insurance agents now have the option of reportedly saving time and paperwork thanks to new online services offered by the Kentucky Office of Insurance (OOI). Prior to the new enhancements to the OOI Web page,...
Former Ky. State Policeman Found Guilty on Charges of Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 1 2004 // West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission Executive Director Gregory Burton announced that a former Kentucky state police officer has been convicted in Kanawha County Circuit Court of felony workers’...
Ky. Office Enhances Online Services for Agents
Mar 11 2004 // Kentucky insurance agents now have the option of reportedly saving time and paperwork thanks to new online services offered by the Kentucky Office of Insurance (OOI). Prior to the new enhancements to the OOI Web page,...
Tort Reformers Look to Score in States after Washington Strikes Out
Mar 8 2004 // Last fall at a University of Virginia Law School forum on tort reform, some of the nation’s top tort experts agreed there were no easy answers on how to solve the nation’s longstanding love-hate relationship...
Ky. Agents Await Sentencing
Mar 8 2004 // According to the Fraud Investigation Division of the Kentucky Office of Insurance, two individuals have been convicted of committing fraudulent insurance acts. Mark A. Calitri, 34, of Richmond was found guilty of two...
The Bluegrass State – Home of Louisville Slugger, Abe Lincoln Birthplace
Feb 23 2004 // The United States Census Bureau’s 2000 census estimated the population of the State of Kentucky at 4 million. Approximately 74 percent of the adult residents had graduated from high school and about 17 percent had...
