Latest Kentucky Headlines
All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
The Demotech Company Classification System Reveals State Specialist Property/Casualty Insurers
Nov 7 2011 // Company Name State of Speciality 2010 TOTAL DPW Texas Mutual Insurance Co. TX 596,191 Old American County Mutual Fire Insurance Co. TX 575,100 SAIF Corporation OR 327,373 St. Johns Insurance Co. Inc. FL 257,106 Brickstreet...
Kentucky Jury Awards $1M in Nursing Home Fall
Oct 26 2011 // A court in Lexington, Kentucky, has ruled that a nursing home should pay more than $1 million to a resident who was severely injured in a fall in an equipment storage room. Irene Hendrix was in her late 80s and had been...
Kentucky Lawmaker Looks to Curb Copper Thefts
Oct 20 2011 // Kentucky Republican state Rep. Bill Farmer of Lexington is planning to push a legislative measure that would impose new rules regarding the sale of scrap copper to try to cut down on thefts. Farmer said businesses and even...
Kentucky Mining Company Sued Over Flooding Death, Damage
Oct 14 2011 // A lawsuit filed by residents in southeastern Kentucky blames a mining company’s surface mining practices for stoking a flood that killed a man and damaged homes in Knox County this summer. The suit against Nally...
Kentucky Judge Orders Amish Men to Pay Fine Over Buggy Signs
Oct 12 2011 // Two Amish men in western Kentucky have been ordered to pay fines and could face jail time for refusing to post reflective triangles on their horse-drawn carriages. Levi Hostetler and Joe Stutzman were found guilty in short...
Kentucky Looks to Save by Self-Insuring State’s Vehicles
Oct 5 2011 // Kentucky has started self-insuring state-owned vehicles and expects to save $750,000 a year by doing so. The program took effect Saturday for 12,500 vehicles and pieces of equipment. The vehicles were previously insured...
Business Moves
Oct 3 2011 // USI, First Place Insurance New York-based USI Insurance Services has acquired substantially all of the assets of First Place Insurance Agency Ltd. (First Place Insurance) of Youngstown, Ohio, from First Place Financial...
Business Moves
Oct 3 2011 // AssuredPartners, Neace Lukens Florida-based AssuredPartners Inc. has acquired the Neace Lukens, a Kentucky-based insurance agency, as part of a plan to build a national insurance brokerage firm. AssuredPartners is a member...
Kentucky Buggies
Oct 3 2011 // A western Kentucky lawmaker is trying to find a compromise in the debate over a law that requires slow-moving vehicles to display a reflective triangle, a requirement that Amish men say infringes on their religious...
AssuredPartners Acquires Kentucky-Based Agency Neace Lukens
Sep 21 2011 // Florida-based AssuredPartners Inc. has acquired the Neace Lukens, a Kentucky-based insurance agency, as part of a plan to build a national insurance brokerage firm. AssuredPartners is a member company of GTCR, a Chicago...
Kentucky Tries to Find Amish Buggies Compromise
Sep 21 2011 // A western Kentucky lawmaker is trying to find a compromise in the debate over a law that requires slow-moving vehicles to display a reflective triangle, a requirement that Amish men say infringes on their religious...
Kentucky Sentences Amish Men Over Safety Violation
Sep 14 2011 // Nine Amish men in Kentucky who refused to display an orange reflective triangle on their horse-drawn buggies have been ordered to jail for not paying court-imposed fines. The men belong to the ultraconservative Old Order...
Indiana Stage Collapse Prompts Safety Review by Kentucky Bluegrass Festival
Sep 13 2011 // Officials with the International Bluegrass Museum in Owensboro, Kentucky, are considering more safety measures as it plans for future music festivals. Daviess County leaders met with museum officials last week to begin...
KEMI to Offer Preferred Program to the Kentucky Restaurant Association
Sep 2 2011 // Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Insurance (KEMI) and the Kentucky Restaurant Association (KRA) have launched a new workers’ compensation program. KEMI is partnering with KRA to make workers’ comp benefits...
Ohio Says Kentucky Agent Used Fake Names, Revokes License
Sep 2 2011 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor has revoked the resident insurance agent license of Sheri Lyn Sharp, of Burlington, Ky., for violations of Ohio insurance law. Sharp wrote...
Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Rates Continue to Drop
Aug 29 2011 // Kentucky regulators have approved the sixth straight reduction in workers’ compensation loss cost rates. Kentucky Insurance Commissioner Sharon Clark has approved a statewide average 7.5 percent decrease in loss...
Kentucky Jury Sides with Doctor In Penis Amputation Malpractice Claim
Aug 26 2011 // A Kentucky truck driver who was wheeled into surgery for a simple circumcision but awoke without part of his penis has lost his multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the urologist who cut off a cancer-riddled section of the...
Kentucky Supreme Court Asked to Review Damages for Fetus Death
Aug 24 2011 // The Kentucky Supreme Court is being asked to review a lawsuit seeking damages for the death of an early-term fetus in a car crash. The lawsuit was brought by Thomas A. Stevens on behalf of his 24-year-old daughter, Desiree...
Kentucky Malpractice Trial Over Amputated Penis Opens
Aug 22 2011 // Opening arguments are scheduled to be heard today in the civil trial of a man who is suing a surgeon who amputated his penis four years ago. A jury was seated in a Shelbyville, Kentucky, courtroom last Thursday in the...
Kentucky Officials Mull Buying Flood Victims’ Properties
Aug 16 2011 // Officials in McCracken County are moving forward with a plan to purchase property from flood victims so that the land won’t be built on again. The McCracken County Fiscal Court voted last week to apply to participate...
