Latest Kentucky Headlines
All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Kentucky Distillery Employee Dies After Falling from Facility Walkway
Jan 17 2019 // Authorities say a distillery employee in Kentucky died after falling from a suspended walkway at the facility. The Daviess County coroner’s office said Tuesday that an autopsy revealed 44-year-old Dennis Layman of...
Kentucky High Court Finds Medical Malpractice Review Panels Unconstitutional
Jan 16 2019 // The Kentucky Supreme Court struck down last month Kentucky’s Medical Review Panels Act, which was enacted by the General Assembly in 2017, returning the process of reviewing medical malpractice claims back to the...
Kentucky Coal-Mining Deaths at Record Low in 2018
Jan 14 2019 // The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration says coal-mining related deaths have reached a record low in Kentucky where a single miner died last year. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the agency said Jan. 8 that...
Southeast Officials Focus on Curbing Fraud, Rising Auto Rates, Flood Insurance, and Distracted Driving
Jan 7 2019 // For the seventh year in a row, the Florida insurance industry, regulators, and consumer advocates will push for reforms to the state’s assignment of benefits issue that has now become an insurance crisis, according...
Kentucky Gov Appoints Collins to State Workers’ Comp Funding Commission
Jan 2 2019 // Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has appointed Brenda Collins as a member of the Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Funding Commission. Collins, of Alvaton, is a benefits distributor for Constellium-UACJ. She will represent...
6 Barges Sink, Spill Coal in Ohio River After Barge Hits Kentucky Bridge
Dec 31 2018 // The Coast Guard says a section of the Ohio River in Kentucky has re-opened after a tugboat and coal barge accident forced its closing. Coast Guard officials say a towing vessel was pushing 15 loaded coal barges when it hit...
Professor Fired for Publicly Criticizing Kentucky Governor Settles Suit for $620K
Dec 12 2018 // The University of Kentucky has settled a lawsuit filed by a former public health dentist who said he was fired from the school for publicly criticizing Republican Gov. Matt Bevin’s plan to overhaul the state’s...
Kentucky Pension Plan Case Raises New Worries for Asset Managers
Dec 3 2018 // KKR & Co., Blackstone Group LP and their founders must face a lawsuit alleging they failed to deliver hedge fund returns as advertised, a judge in Kentucky ruled Friday in a decision that may present new legal...
Feds Sue Kentucky Restaurants Over Failure to Pay Workers $130K in Overtime
Dec 3 2018 // The federal Department of Labor is suing the owners of two Kentucky brunch restaurants it says failed to pay workers more than $130,000 in overtime. The Courier Journal reported Wednesday that the department says the...
Kentucky Woman Sues Texas Roadhouse Chain Over Breastfeeding
Nov 28 2018 // A Kentucky woman who says a Texas Roadhouse employee told her to cover up while she was breastfeeding is suing the restaurant chain for emotional distress. Sadie Durbin is quoted by news outlets as saying the employee...
Kentucky Woman Gets 5 Years, Ordered to Pay $1.6M for Crop Insurance Fraud
Nov 16 2018 // A Kentucky woman was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay $1.6 million in restitution for crop insurance fraud. The U.S. attorney’s office in Lexington said 63-year-old Debra Muse of the Wallingford...
Bradley to Lead New Berkley Equine & Cattle Animal Mortality Claims Office in Kentucky
Nov 2 2018 // Berkley Equine & Cattle (BEC) has opened its Animal Mortality Claims Adjusting Office in Lexington, Ky., and appointed Philip O. Bradley as manager. Bradley has more than 25 years of experience adjusting equine, cattle...
Kentucky AG Files 8th Opioid Lawsuit Against Pharmaceutical Company
Oct 31 2018 // Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear has sued a pharmaceutical company, accusing it of contributing to the state’s opioid epidemic. Beshear says he has sued Pennsylvania-based Teva for marketing its products to...
1 Dead, 2 Injured in Kentucky House Explosion
Oct 30 2018 // Police say an explosion at a Kentucky home has killed one person and injured two others. State Trooper Scotty Sharp says in a news release the explosion occurred Saturday in McDaniels. The statement says a preliminary...
People
Oct 15 2018 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has tapped Josh Close as client services coordinator in the firm’s Birmingham, Ala.-based national energy construction practice, reporting to EPIC Principal Brian Tanner. Close...
Brown & Brown of Kentucky Acquires FNI Management Group
Oct 11 2018 // Brown & Brown of Kentucky, Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown, Inc., has acquired substantially all of the assets of FNI Management Group, according to an announcement by Scott Penny, chief acquisitions officer of...
Business Moves
Oct 1 2018 // Marsh & McLennan, JLT Marsh & McLennan Inc. agreed to buy Jardine Lloyd Thompson for about $5.7 billion to expand its global offering of reinsurance and consulting services. New York-based Marsh said the purchase...
Kentucky, West Virginia Offer Discounted Lodging Rates for Florence Evacuees
Sep 12 2018 // Kentucky and West Virginia are offering discounted rates on lodging at their state parks for people seeking shelter from Hurricane Florence. The Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet said the discounted nightly rate...
Weekend Flooding from Tropical Storm Gordon Kills 1 in Kentucky
Sep 12 2018 // One person has been reported killed and one remains missing after weekend flooding spawned by the remnants of last week’s Tropical Storm Gordon. Louisville, Kentucky, Metro Police spokeswoman Alicia Smiley tells the...
Brown & Brown of Kentucky Acquires Massachusetts’ F&I Resources
Sep 5 2018 // Brown & Brown of Kentucky Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., has acquired substantially all of the assets of F&I Resources, a Westborough, Mass.-based company specializing in helping automotive dealers...
