Latest Kentucky Headlines
All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Kentucky Public Health Team Monitoring Riverboat Flu
Oct 25 2006 // Officials in Kentucky were running tests Monday to try to determine what caused at least 36 people to complain of flu-like symptoms while traveling down the Ohio River on the Mississippi Queen. Dr. William Hacker,...
Ky. Judge Awards Fen-Phen Clients $20M From Lawyers
Oct 20 2006 // About 400 people should receive nearly $20 million lawyers held in a controversial fund controlled by three Lexington, Kentucky lawyers in a lawsuit over the diet drug fen-phen, a judge has ruled. Special Judge William...
Suit filed against Comair for Kentucky crash
Sep 25 2006 // The family of a woman killed when Comair Flight 5191 took off on the wrong runway at Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Ky., and crashed in flames has sued the airline, blaming it for the country’s deadliest airplane...
Kentucky’s Pile Heads New Officers for National PIA
Sep 17 2006 // The new national officers of the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents were installed during the group’s September 10 board of directors meeting held in Savannah, Georgia. Each of the officers will...
Lawsuit Filed Against Comair Over Kentucky Plane Crash
Sep 5 2006 // The family of a woman killed when Comair Flight 5191 took off on the wrong runway and crashed in flames sued the airline, blaming it for the United States’ deadliest airplane disaster in five years. The lawsuit...
Kentucky Workers Comp Loss Costs Down 9.3%
Sep 5 2006 // The latest industry loss cost filing approved for Kentucky workers compensation shows an average reduction of 9.3 percent for the 564 industrial classes. These classes include manufacturing, office and clerical,...
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Sep 4 2006 // Former Executive Director A ‘spirited’ Kentucky wants make up ground in the race for captives Glenn Jennings replaced Martin J. Koetters as Executive Director of the Kentucky Office of Insurance in April 2005....
Kentucky Suspends Lawyers Who Won $200M Fen-Phen Case
Aug 28 2006 // Three attorneys have been temporarily suspended from practicing law in Kentucky because of questions about the way they divided a $200 million settlement from a fen-phen lawsuit. The Kentucky Supreme Court took the action...
Fen-Phen Attorneys Should Be Suspended, Says Kentucky Bar
Aug 22 2006 // Three Lexington, Kentucky lawyers involved in a massive fen-phen case should be temporarily suspended from practicing law because of how they appropriated their clients’ shares of a $200 million settlement, an...
Eastern Kentucky University Taps Christensen for Insurance Chair
Aug 22 2006 // The new Robert B. Morgan Chair of Insurance at Eastern Kentucky University brings 30 years of experience as an attorney and executive officer in the insurance industry. Burke A. Christensen most recently served as chief...
Rough riding for workers’ comp on the racetrack
Aug 21 2006 // The problem of providing workers’ compensation insurance for jockeys and backstretch workers, such as grooms and exercise riders, in the horse racing industry is a complicated one. Only four states —...
Rough riding for workers’ comp on the racetrack
Aug 21 2006 // The problem of providing workers’ compensation insurance for jockeys and backstretch workers, such as grooms and exercise riders, in the horse racing industry is a complicated one. Only four states —...
Rough riding for workers’ comp on the racetrack
Aug 21 2006 // The problem of providing workers’ compensation insurance for jockeys and backstretch workers, such as grooms and exercise riders, in the horse racing industry is a complicated one. Only four states —...
OSHA to Probe Death at Kentucky Steel Mill
Aug 1 2006 // The federal Occupational, Safety and Health Administration will investigate the death of a worker at a steel mill construction site in Mississippi’s Lowndes County. County Coroner Greg Merchant said Tony Vic...
Kentucky Fines Retarded Adults’ Center for Safety Violations
Jul 28 2006 // Kentucky’s largest center for mentally retarded adults has been fined $1.4 million for not correcting health and safety violations, state officials announced. The state inspector general’s office under the...
Brown & Brown Acquires Kentucky-based The Anderson Group
Jul 5 2006 // The acquisition of The Anderson Group of Owensboro, Ky., has been announced by Brown & Brown Inc. of Daytona Beach and Tampa, Fla. The announcement was made jointly by J. Scott Penny, Brown & Brown regional...
Five Arrested in Western Kentucky University Fire
Jun 26 2006 // It will cost more than $1.3 million to repair Western Kentucky University’s Cherry Hall, which was damaged by an arson fire April 23. Western’s President Gary Ransdell said the university has about half the...
Kentucky Office of Insurance Appoints New Executive Director
Jun 26 2006 // Julie Mix McPeak, an attorney with more than a decade of legal and administrative experience in state government, has been appointed executive director of the Kentucky Office of Insurance by Governor Ernie Fletcher. McPeak...
Employers’ Mutual one of the ‘Top-10’ places to work in Kentucky
Jun 19 2006 // Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Insurance has been named one of the top-10 Best Places to Work in Kentucky. Located in Lexington, KEMI is Kentucky’s leading provider of workers’ compensation insurance. The...
Australian Company Selling Bogus Products in Kentucky, Being Investigated Elsewhere
Jun 9 2006 // An Australian company, Sinclair Insurance Co. Ltd. is selling amusement ride and professional liability insurance products in Kentucky without a certificate of authority from the state, according to the Kentucky Office of...
