Latest Kentucky Headlines
All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Kentucky aids small businesses with insurance
Dec 25 2006 // Dan Hayes began working at Purcell’s Business Products, in Campbellsville, Ky., in the 1970s. By 1980, he owned the business selling office supplies and equipment with eight employees. A desire to “do good by...
Kentucky aids small businesses with insurance
Dec 24 2006 // Dan Hayes began working at Purcell’s Business Products, in Campbellsville, Ky., in the 1970s. By 1980, he owned the business selling office supplies and equipment with eight employees. A desire to “do good by...
Widow Sues Kentucky Mine Operators for $65 Million
Nov 20 2006 // The widow of a miner killed in an underground roof collapse at a southeastern Kentucky mine is seeking more than $65 million in a lawsuit against the five Virginia companies that oversee the operation. Claudia Cole of...
Supreme Court races have positive outcomes
Nov 20 2006 // The goal of fair and balanced courts in states throughout the country was advanced in a number of state Supreme Court elections, according to the American Insurance Association. Contestable state Supreme Court elections...
Judicial races in Southeast, nation prove contentious, costly
Nov 20 2006 // The midterm 2006 judicial elections saw judicial campaign contribution and advertising records smashed in numerous states holding high court elections. Voters went to the polls in 22 contested Supreme Court races in 10...
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Nov 19 2006 // Judicial races in Southeast, nation prove contentious, costly Business groups spend heavily but come up short in a number of judicial contests The midterm 2006 judicial elections saw judicial campaign contribution and...
Ky. Family’s Suit Over Comair Crash Faults Plane Design
Nov 7 2006 // A lawsuit filed by the family of one of the victims of a Kentucky jet crash that killed 49 people says many victims might have survived if the plane had not burst into flames. Comair Flight 5191 crashed and burned shortly...
Kentucky Churchgoers: Medi-Share Not an Insurance Program
Oct 30 2006 // A Christian cost-sharing ministry set up to help cover medical costs for churchgoers is not an insurance program and doesn’t claim to be, the head of the American Evangelical Association testified last week. E. John...
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,...
Glenn
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 —...
