Latest Kentucky Headlines
All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Employers’ Mutual in ‘Top-10’ Places to Work in Ky.
May 30 2006 // Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Insurance has announced it 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...
Washington Insurance Commissioner Seeks Legal Redress for Failed Insurer
May 18 2006 // Editor’s Note, March 2009: In response to a complaint that the Insurance Journal reported only one side of the preceding story, and as a means of resolving Anthony Huff’s claims against the Insurance...
Tornados foretell things to come
May 8 2006 // As emergency planners and hurricane experts from across the U.S. met in April to plan and prepare for the hurricane season, the timing couldn’t have been better, as massive twisters roared down “tornado...
Tornado ploughs across Tenn., Ky., resulting in thousands of claims
May 8 2006 // In the aftermath of a large F-3 to F-4 tornado, hundreds of carriers and insurance agents in northern Tennessee and southern Kentucky are paying hundreds of claims. The storm formed April 7 at about 7 p.m., touching down...
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May 8 2006 // Tornado ploughs across Tenn., Ky., resulting in thousands of claims In the aftermath of a large F-3 to F-4 tornado, thousands of carriers and insurance agents in northern Tennessee and southern Kentucky are paying...
Editor’s Note: Tornados foretell things to come
May 8 2006 // As emergency planners and hurricane experts from across the U.S. met in April to plan and prepare for the hurricane season, the timing couldn’t have been better, as massive twisters roared down “tornado...
Kentucky Obtains Approval on New Medicaid Plan
May 5 2006 // Kentucky’s plan to revamp its Medicaid program by offering participants different benefits to suit their health problems has been approved by the federal government, officials said in Frankfort, Ky. The new coverage...
Ky. Mine Subsidence Insurance Fund Homeowners Premiums Lowered
May 3 2006 // A decrease in the rates charged to consumers living in Kentucky counties that participate in the Kentucky Mine Subsidence Insurance Fund has been announced by the Kentucky Office of Insurance in Frankfort, Ky. Due to this...
Deadly storms hit Midwest again in new round of spring tornadoes
Apr 17 2006 // The new round of tornadoes hit the Midwest less than one month after a similar grouping of twisters, high winds and damage hit a five-state area on March 12. News Currents Another round of deadly storms hit the Midwest...
Kentucky psychiatrist sentenced
Apr 17 2006 // Fraud Roundup Imposter arrested ‘playing dentist’ A Miami-Dade County man was arrested for practicing dentistry without a license and submitting fraudulent Medicaid claims, according to Florida’s Attorney...
Thousands of Claims Anticipated After Tenn., Ky. Tornado
Apr 6 2006 // The cleanup is underway in the aftermath of a large F-3 to F-4 tornado that tore a swath of death and destruction on Sunday evening through northern Tennessee and southern Kentucky, leaving 18 people dead and hundreds...
Ky. Becomes the 22nd State to Sign Interstate Compact
Apr 6 2006 // Kentucky became the 22nd state to join the Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact when Governor Ernie Fletcher signed House Bill 112 into law in Frankfort this week. The compact streamlines the regulatory process,...
