Kentucky News

Kentucky Company Enters Reinsurance Agreement with California Underwriter

California-based NAS Insurance Services and Kentucky Hospital Insurance Company have entered into a new reinsurance arrangement for network security insurance. The agreement provides for KHIC to cover the insured hospital’s liability for errors in electronic data management. The insurance also …

Kentucky Officials May Install Crash Prevention Cables on Interstate

Kentucky transportation officials are considering installing cable barriers along a section of Interstate 65. There are no funds to widen the four-lane section between Elizabethtown and Bowling Green in the near future. Jeff Moore, planning chief for the Department of …

Passing Through

A few years ago, the professional football career of Atlanta Falcons quarterback Chris Redman wasn’t going too well. Redman started his career with the Baltimore Ravens. He played 10 games in four years but then he got hurt — shoulder …

Passing Through

Tens of thousands of ill Florida smokers and families of those who died are lining up for a share of a $600 million fund created by major tobacco companies as part of a 14-year-old lawsuit against cigarette manufacturers. The Florida …

Feds Issue Final Rules on Underground Mine Seals

The nation’s coal operators have six months to submit plans for complying with new federal requirements covering stronger seals and increased monitoring to ward off explosions in underground coal mines. The changes stem from a Jan. 2, 2006, methane gas …

For Atlanta Quarterback Redman, Football’s More Fun Than Insurance

Think playing quarterback is tough? Try selling insurance. “I thought the NFL was a cutthroat business,” Chris Redman joked coming off the field after practice with the Atlanta Falcons. “Let me tell you, the insurance business is just as cutthroat.” …

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Parents File Lawsuit over Fatal School Bus Crash in Kentucky

The parents of a teenager killed when a dump truck crashed into a school bus on a curvy northern Kentucky highway filed a lawsuit. Daniel Wood’s parents are alleging negligence by the trucking company and the driver in the May …

Safety Investigation Follows Equestrian Fall at Kentucky Event

American equestrian officials were preparing to impose new safety rules – including suspensions for certain dangerous jumps – in the wake of an accident in Kentucky that killed a horse and left its rider critically injured. After reviewing the spill …

Update: West Virginia Cancels Mine Seal Meeting

The state Board of Coal Mine Health and Safety has put off plans to revisit West Virginia’s regulations for sealing abandoned sections of coal mines. State law requires the board to review West Virginia’s regulations because the federal Mine Safety …