Latest Kentucky Headlines
All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
OxyContin Makers to Settle Lawsuit with Kentucky for $24 Million
Dec 29 2015 // The maker of OxyContin will pay Kentucky $24 million over the next eight years as part of the settlement of a long-running lawsuit that accused the company of misleading the public about the addictiveness of the powerful...
Distillery Drops Trademark Suit Against University of Kentucky
Dec 23 2015 // Kentucky Mist Moonshine has dropped a federal lawsuit against the University of Kentucky over trademarks. James Francis, a lawyer for the eastern Kentucky distillery, tells the Lexington Herald-Leader the two sides are...
People – Southeast
Dec 21 2015 // Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) Commissioner Julie Mix McPeak was elected secretary-treasurer of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). She joins the other 2016 NAIC officers...
Best, Worst States for Insurance Regulation
Dec 21 2015 // Vermont, Utah, Iowa, Virginia and Kentucky get an “A” and North Carolina an “F” in one think tank’s annual grading of states on how they regulate the property/casualty insurance industry. The...
Players Argue Over Potential $750M Winnings in Kentucky Online Poker Suit
Dec 18 2015 // Kentucky taxpayers are about to win a multimillion-dollar judgment against an online poker company, and about 14,000 poker players have told a judge they deserve the money since they are the ones who lost it. The Kentucky...
New Kentucky Governor Selects Next Public Protection Secretary
Dec 17 2015 // Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has appointed a Glasgow businessman and former judge-executive to be secretary of the Public Protection Cabinet. Bevin said David A. Dickerson of Glasgow is “a proven business leader and a...
Feds Investigating Potential Crop Insurance Fraud in Kentucky
Dec 17 2015 // Federal investigators say they believe Central Kentucky tobacco farmers, crop insurance agents, tobacco warehouse owners and others conspired to defraud thousands and possibly millions of dollars from the U.S. Department...
Kentucky Mining Company Fined for Clean Water Act Violations
Dec 10 2015 // Kentucky’s Energy and Environment Cabinet has agreed to levy a stiff fine against a coal mining company that acknowledged thousands of Clean Water Act violations, effectively barring the company from operating in...
Disaster Loans Made Available to 9 Kentucky Counties
Dec 7 2015 // The U.S. Small Business Administration announced that federal economic injury disaster loans are available to small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture and most private...
Kentucky Farmers See Drop in Cash Receipts
Dec 6 2015 // After a period of record cash receipts, Kentucky farmers are feeling the squeeze from lower commodity prices and sluggish exports. University of Kentucky ag economists predicted Dec. 3 that statewide farm cash receipts...
Kentucky Governor Awards Power Plant for 2 Million Accident Free Hours
Dec 3 2015 // A western Kentucky power plant is being honored with working more than 2 million hours without a lost-time accident. The employees of the Big Rivers Sebree station recently received the Governor’s Safety and Health...
Best, Worst States for Insurance Regulation
Dec 1 2015 // Vermont, Utah, Iowa, Virginia and Kentucky get an “A” and North Carolina an “F” in one think tank’s annual grading of states on how they regulate the property/casualty insurance industry. The...
Brown & Brown to Acquire Assets of MBA Insurance Agency of Arizona
Nov 30 2015 // MBA Insurance Agency of Arizona Inc. and Brown & Brown of Kentucky Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., have entered into an agreement for the acquisition by Brown & Brown of substantially all of the...
Kentucky Governor Orders Nursing Homes to Perform National Background Checks
Nov 25 2015 // Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has ordered nursing homes and other health care providers to run national background checks on all new employees or risk losing their license to operate in the state. Beshear signed the...
NAIC Elects Missouri’s Huff President; Other 2016 Officers
Nov 24 2015 // State insurance regulators who are members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) have elected 2016 officers, including Missouri Insurance Director John Huff as president. Other officers elected are...
Missouri Insurance Director Huff Elected NAIC President
Nov 23 2015 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) have elected 2016 officers who will will assume their duties on Jan. 1, 2016. President: Missouri Insurance Director John M. Huff President-Elect:...
Kentucky Court: Mine-Safety Laws Don’t Apply to Subcontractors
Nov 12 2015 // Kentucky’s mine-safety laws and regulations didn’t apply to a subcontract worker who died while installing a massive garage door on a building at a mine site in Muhlenberg County, the state’s Supreme...
Distillery Sues University Over Word ‘Kentucky’
Nov 5 2015 // Kentucky Mist Moonshine is suing the University of Kentucky over use of the word “Kentucky” on clothing. The company filed suit Nov. 2 in U.S. District Court. The Lexington Herald-Leader says the suit was filed...
Kentucky Farmers Ready for Growth of Hemp Industry
Nov 4 2015 // Tucked away off a narrow country road in Clark County, Kentucky, in the middle of a farm, 27 acres of hemp grew all summer. Now, the plants will be harvested and processed. Kentucky, hailed as a leader by industrial hemp...
Distillery, University of Kentucky Clash Over Use of Word ‘Kentucky’
Oct 26 2015 // The owners of Kentucky Mist distillery say University of Kentucky attorneys have sent them a letter asserting the school owns the rights to the word “Kentucky,” at least on clothing. The Mountain Eagle reports...
