With a Conservative View on Growth and Employees as Owners, J. Smith Lanier & Co. Has Risen to the Top Even in the Toughest Market Imaginable Insurance Journal Top 100 Agency Profile RANKING: No. 9 Agency Name: J. Smith Lanier …
When O’Neill Lawrence returned from a supply run to his western Kentucky farm in Leitchfield, Kentucky, on Wednesday, he met FEMA’s top official at his gate. One of thousands without electricity more than a week after a crippling ice storm, …
Gov. Steve Beshear says he will ask President Barack Obama to declare a major disaster in Kentucky, which will open the state to immediate federal financial assistance in the wake of last week’s devastating ice storm. The governor said the …
In the first real test of the Obama administration’s ability to respond to a disaster, Kentucky officials are giving the federal government good marks for its response to a deadly ice storm. Yet more than 300,000 residents remained without power …
In some parts of rural Kentucky, they’re getting water the old-fashioned way — with pails from a creek. There’s not room for one more sleeping bag on the shelter floor. The creative are flushing their toilets with melted snow. At …
The widow of an eastern Kentucky coal miner who died on the job last year has sued one of the nation’s largest coal companies for more than $37 million in damages. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that an attorney for Susie …
Food regulators didn’t consider salmonella a threat to most peanut products before they traced an outbreak to a peanut butter plant in Georgia two years ago. Officials in the nation’s top peanut-producing state promptly began checking for the bacteria during …
In the midst of a winter storm that has left hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians without electricity, a minor earthquake has hit in southeastern Kentucky. The University of Kentucky’s Kentucky Geological Survey Web site says the magnitude 3.1 quake occurred …
ACE Private Risk Services has expanded the availability of its ACE Platinum Portfolio policy to Kentucky and Ohio. Launched in May 2008 and sold through independent agents and brokers, the new product is designed to meet the insurance needs of …
A medical committee that makes recommendations to Kentucky high school athletics officials meets Thursday to discuss athlete safety. The discussion follows the death of Pleasure Ridge Park High School football player Max Gilpin, who died three days after collapsing during …
