Latest Kentucky Headlines
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Police Probe Shooting Death of Kentucky Insurance Department Examiner
Sep 15 2009 // Police in Lexington, Kentucky are investigating the shooting death of a former state GOP lawmaker’s ex-girlfriend, after the woman was found shot to death early Friday outside her town house. Authorities said Amanda...
Kentucky Flood Victims With Insurance Might Also Be Eligible for Disaster Aid
Sep 10 2009 // Kentucky residents who suffered from severe flooding in Jefferson County last month may still be eligible for federal or state government disaster aid even if they have insurance. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is...
Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Costs Drop for 4th Straight Year
Sep 7 2009 // Kentucky workers’ compensation costs are continuing to drop, with latest figures showing an average reduction of 6.4 percent. Insurance Commissioner Sharon P. Clark has approved the industry’s loss cost...
Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Costs Drop for 4th Straight Year
Aug 27 2009 // Kentucky workers’ compensation costs are continuing to drop, with latest figures showing an average reduction of 6.4 percent. Insurance Commissioner Sharon P. Clark has approved the industry’s loss cost...
Kentucky Approves Software to Help Insurers Charge Correct Premium Taxes
Aug 26 2009 // Kentucky Insurance Department has approved vendors with software that can help insurance companies comply with a new law on collecting premium taxes. The new state law (HB 524) requires insurers to use a verified...
Employee Lawsuits Proving Costly for Kentucky Counties, Says Report
Aug 24 2009 // A string of employee terminations by the Kentucky Association of Counties has cost the agency millions of dollars, according to a published report. The Lexington Herald-Leader says documents it obtained show KACo spent a...
Kentucky Courts Close Bonds Gap with Construction Firm
Aug 21 2009 // The Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts has an agreement with Codell Construction Co. that will allow courthouse projects in four counties to begin. A review was ordered after it was found the Winchester-based...
Kentucky League of Cities Insurance Board Cuts Ties to Law Firm
Aug 20 2009 // A Kentucky League of Cities agency has stopped using a law firm where the husband of the League’s executive director works. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the League’s Insurance Services board decided last...
Insurance Adjusters Survey Flood Damage at Kentucky Derby Museum
Aug 7 2009 // Much of the Kentucky Derby Museum’s prized collection is scattered on tables after extensive damage from flash flooding that hit Louisville. Insurance investigators toured the museum on Wednesday, a day after...
Kentucky National Enters Tennessee P/C Insurance Market
Aug 4 2009 // Kentucky National Insurance Co., a Lexington-based property/ casualty insurance company, began offering insurance to customers in Tennessee June 1, 2009. Kentucky National is offering auto, homeowners, boat, renters,...
Kentucky Officials Looking Into Counties’ Insurance Organization
Jul 13 2009 // The Kentucky Department of Insurance is reviewing the operations of a nonprofit group that provides insurance for most of the state’s counties. The action came after a series of newspaper articles in the Lexington...
Kentucky Officials Accused of Crimes Covered By Legal Insurance
Jul 6 2009 // Elected county officials in Kentucky who run afoul of the law can have their legal bills paid by a nonprofit lobbying group set up for the state’s counties. The Kentucky Association of Counties’ taxpayer-funded...
West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Insurer Approved in Kentucky
Jun 25 2009 // West Virginia’s BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co. said it received word this week that it has been approved to write workers’ compensation insurance in Kentucky. The expansion into Kentucky begins a “new...
Judge Says Feds Can Seize $30 Million from Kentucky Diet Scam Lawyers
Jun 22 2009 // Federal prosecutors may seize $30 million and three bank accounts from a pair of Kentucky lawyers convicted of bilking clients in a diet-drug settlement, a judge says. U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves on Thursday granted...
2 Kentucky Agents Sentenced for Workers’ Compensation Fraud
May 22 2009 // Two eastern Kentucky insurance agents and an agency employee have been ordered to pay fines, serve probationary sentences and perform public service work on their guilty pleas in a fraud case. The sentences were given to...
Cleanup Begins After Midwest Storms Kill 6
May 11 2009 // Residents of the Midwest began clearing away wreckage May 9 following a wave of powerful storms that splintered homes, knocked out power to thousands and killed six people. Hundreds of homes and businesses were damaged or...
Kentucky Offers Regional Vehicular Homicide Training
May 1 2009 // Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway announced that his office will train police officers and local prosecutors on the effective prosecution of vehicular homicide cases. Robert Stokes, the Commonwealth’s Traffic...
Kentucky Insurance Officials Assist Murfreesboro Storm Victims
Apr 21 2009 // Kentucky insurance officials are moving to assist victims of recent severe storms in the Murfreesboro area. The Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Insurance is setting up a temporary consumer center in...
Massey Energy Fined $2.5 Million for Fatal West Virginia Mine Fire
Apr 17 2009 // A Massey Energy subsidiary was fined $2.5 million fine this week after a federal judge accepted the company’s guilty plea to 10 criminal charges for a fire that killed two West Virginia coal miners. U.S. District...
Kentucky Fen-Phen Lawyers Ordered to Return $30M
Apr 9 2009 // Two disbarred lawyers convicted of scamming their former clients in a diet drug case out of millions of dollars must forfeit $30 million, a federal jury ruled Tuesday. Former attorneys William Gallion and Shirley...
