Kentucky News

Safety Violations Found at Massey Mines Since Blast

Federal inspectors have found more than 60 serious safety violations at Massey Energy operations since the explosion that killed 29 miners, adding to fallout from the disaster that includes a wrongful death lawsuit by one of the men’s widows. Inspectors …

Kentucky Contractors Self Insure Fund Pays $8.6 Million Dividend

The Kentucky Associated General Contractors Self Insurers Fund recently returned $8.6 million in dividends to its qualifying members. This dividend return marked the 16th consecutive year in which the Kentucky AGC/SIF has returned a dividend, bringing the total returned since …

Keystone Insurers’ Kentucky Derby and Where It’s Going Next

Pennsylvania-based insurance agency franchisor Keystone Insurers Group has more than 200 agency owner-partners and it’s not done yet, says Colin Buzzard, Keystone’s executive vice president of sales and marketing. Currently, Keystone has agency partners in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Virginia, Indiana …

Kentucky Enacts Municipal Insurance Accountability Laws

Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has signed into law two Senate bills that will ensure that public entities such as the Kentucky Association of Counties (KACo) and the Kentucky League of Cities (KLC) conduct their business operations under the light of …

People

Wells Fargo Insurance Services has named Wayne Marchant as senior vice president and Southeast region healthcare practice leader. He will be based in Savannah. Prior to joining Wells Fargo Insurance Services, Marchant was vice president and chief risk officer, corporate …

It Figures

$30.8 Million The amount from its surplus that Kentucky’s major workers’ compensation insurance carrier, Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Insurance, has decided to return to policyholders. Earlier this month, Gov. Steve Beshear asked the insurer to consider returning some of its $147 …

2 Kentucky School Officials Dropped from Wrongful Death Suit

A judge in Louisville has removed two high school officials from a wrongful death lawsuit stemming from the death of a 15-year-old football player. The Courier-Journal of Louisville reported that Judge Mitch Perry dropped Pleasure Ridge Park High School principal …

West Virginia Doctor Probed Over Workers’ Compensation Prescriptions

Investigators have seized a small fortune from a Mingo County, West Virginia doctor in a case that parallels a previous raid of a Williamson pain clinic, court filings show. The U.S. District Court papers disclose that prosecutors are negotiating a …

West Virginia Mine Death Toll Reaches 29; Grieving Begins

Time stopped five days ago for the families of 29 coal miners killed in the devastating explosion at Upper Big Branch mine. As thousands waited, hoping for any word someone might have survived Monday’s blast, life in coal country chugged …

Kentucky Gov. Beshear Signs Municipal Insurance Accountability Bills

Gov. Steve Beshear has signed into law two Senate bills that will ensure that public entities and affiliated organizations such as the Kentucky Association of Counties (KACo) and the Kentucky League of Cities (KLC) conduct their business operations under the …