Latest Kentucky Headlines

Ky. General Assembly Bill Would Require Large Companies to Provide Health Insurance

Jan 16 2006 // A bill before Kentucky’s General Assembly follows Maryland’s lead to require Wal-Mart to spend more on health insurance for employees and would require employers with 10,000 or more workers to spend at least 8...

Tenn. Workers’ Comp Scheme Perpetrator Receives 108-Month Jail Term, Judge Orders $5M Restitution

Jan 13 2006 // Gary Linsey Slater has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jennifer Coffman in Lexington, Ky. to 108 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $5 million restitution to two insurance companies he defrauded in a...

Kentucky Surgeon Sentenced to Prison for Felony Medicaid Fraud

Jan 6 2006 // Louisville, Ky. oral surgeon Robert Michael Clear has been sentenced to three years in prison on felony Medicaid fraud charges according to Attorney General Greg Stumbo. The Jefferson Circuit Court sentence was probated...

Minor Earthquake Hits Illinois, Tremors Reported in Indiana, Kentucky

Jan 4 2006 // A minor earthquake hit a small town in southern Illinois yesterday, raising questions again about the threat of a major earthquake for states sitting on or near the New Madrid fault line. The quake struck yesterday at 3:48...

2005, a Year to Remember: Busiest Hurricane Season of the Century for United States

Dec 29 2005 // The hurricane season made 2005 a year-to-remember, with the southeast encountering the busiest hurricane season of the century, with 26 named storms and 13 hurricanes, meteorologists used up the list of 21 proper names and...

Ky. Insurance Companies, Authorities Will Cooperate After Jan. 1 in Crackdown on Uninsured Motorists

Dec 13 2005 // Insurance companies and public officials have joined forces in Kentucky in an effort to eliminate uninsured motorists who buy insurance for only long enough to meet state proof of insurance requirements and then cancel...

Ky. Governor’s Agenda Targets Medical Malpractice Lawsuits

Dec 8 2005 // Reducing medical malpractice lawsuits, reducing soaring health care costs and helping small businesses cope with the increased cost of employee insurance are targets on Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher’s 2006 legislative...

People & Places

Nov 21 2005 // Kay W. McCurdy The Board of Directors of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. elected Kay W. McCurdy to serve on its board of directors. Bernhard Steves McCurdy began her career in 1975 as an attorney at Lord, Bissell &...

Nov 20 2005 // The Board of Directors of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. elected Kay W. McCurdy to serve on its board of directors. McCurdy began her career in 1975 as an attorney at Lord, Bissell & Brook in Chicago and has more than...

Several States Hit as Tornadoes Tear Up Midwest, Southeast

Nov 16 2005 // Tornadoes barreled across the Midwest and portions of the Southeast on Tuesday, knocking out electricity and damaging buildings in several states. The storms killed at least one person. Meteorologists told The Associated...

ACE Makes Appointments in Midwest

Oct 24 2005 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of the ACE Group of Companies, today announced that Kelley Kinsella has been named senior vice president and regional business development manager for ACE USA’s...

Ky. Agent Took $150,000 from Clients, Sentenced to 20 Years

Oct 12 2005 // Michael Jay Heathman of Lexington, Ky., who did business as Preferred Financial Service, has been sentenced to prison for 20 years after admitting he stole about $150,000 from his clients. Heathman’s plea was the...

Ohio, Ky. Insurers Reach Agreement in Lawsuits Filed in 2002

Oct 4 2005 // Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky physicians have reached an agreement with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Ohio and Kentucky stemming from lawsuits filed in 2002 against several insurers. Courts in Boone and...

FLORIDA

Oct 3 2005 // The Prosecutor’s Office has charged five St. Petersburg residents with filing false claims and defrauding two car insurance companies after a May 2004 two-car wreck in Pinellas Park, Fla. Zlatan Ramic, Alija...

Ky. Councilman Pleads Guilty in Workers’ Comp Scheme

Sep 27 2005 // Danny W. Miller, a Central City, Ky. Councilman, has pleaded guilty to bilking the federal government out of more than $100,000 in workers’ compensation benefits during a four-year period. Miller appeared in the...

Ky. DOI Discovers Bogus ‘Auto Bonds’ Being Sold as Auto Insurance Substitute

Sep 22 2005 // According to the Kentucky Office of Insurance in Frankfort, a Washington state company is selling Kentuckians bogus “auto bonds,” claiming that the product is a viable substitute for mandatory automobile...

Ky. Trucking Company Owner Charged With Fraud

Sep 13 2005 // The owner of a Lee County, Ky. trucking company near Frankfurt has been fined $10,000 and ordered to pay over $43,000 in restitution for submitting false information to the company’s workers’ compensation...

Illinois Agent Sells Bogus Circus Coverage

Sep 5 2005 // Insurance regulators in Kentucky and Nebraska are investigating an Illinois-based insurance company for allegedly defrauding amusement industry operators in Kentucky and Nebraska. Richard A. Brooks & Associates Ltd.,...

Chicago Exec Convicted in Arson Scheme

Sep 5 2005 // A federal jury ruled last month that former commodities firm executive Marc E. Thompson set his home ablaze and burned his elderly mother alive to collect insurance money that he later hid during bankruptcy proceedings,...

Ky. Temp Supplier Fined for Underreporting Workers’ Compensation to KEMI

Aug 24 2005 // A Kentucky company that supplies temporary workers for underground coal mines has pleaded guilty in Letcher Circuit Court to a felony count of insurance fraud. Boone Mountain Services Inc., of Jackhorn, Ky. was charged...