More than two dozen tornadoes tore through the mid-South late Tuesday night, destroying homes, barns, and industrial buildings from Texas to Ohio. The severe thunderstorm outbreak, which included tornadoes, hail, heavy rain and lightning, killed more than 50 people and …
A severe weather front fell upon the Southern states inciting a series of strong tornadoes that moved across Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas, wreaking damage and killing at least 48. As the information of the damage and fatalities reached the …
Motorists Mutual Insurance Co. will automatically include $100,000 of employment practices liability insurance (EPLI) in most commercial policies starting in April. This change gives agents an additional selling tool, according to Grady B. Campbell, vice president of property/casualty marketing. “No …
Relatives of 10 people killed in a house fire in Bardstown, Ky., last year have filed a lawsuit that names a cigarette company and a furniture maker. The suit alleges the two companies, Altria Group and Jackson Furniture Industries, could …
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs clinics in Middle Tennessee and south central Kentucky have reopened. Water from a broken pipe earlier this week damaged computers that manage information for those clinics. Routine appointments in primary care and specialty care clinics, …
Lawmakers want to know why federal mine safety regulators didn’t assess penalties for hundreds of citations issued since 2000, and what is being done to correct the problem. The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration discovered the problem after it …
One of the U.S. senators who has sponsored legislation to give insurance companies the option of being regulated by the federal government instead of by states is leaving the Senate Banking Committee that deals with many property/casualty insurance issues. Sen. …
A man living in a mobile home inside a massive art warehouse in Louisville, Ky., died from injuries sustained in a three-alarm blaze on Jan 26. Bill Christie died at University Hosptial, a hospital official said. Christie’s age was not …
Federal researchers have concluded that airtight refuge chambers could save trapped miners and merit installation in the nation’s 731 underground coal mines. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health researchers also have determined the current approach – building barricades from …
States get nearly five more years to verify identity, reissue licenses State officials and some in Congress remain skeptical about new federal rules for driver’s licenses, even after major changes designed to cut the cost of those rules and provide …
