Something went wrong with the Fireball ride at the 2018 Kentucky State Fair, and ride operator Duanne Haywood went underneath. Within minutes, Haywood was pinned. His was one of 19 worker injuries the ride company reported last year.
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Louisville’s Hilliard Lyons To Pay Fine For Bilking Investors
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The firm, one of the oldest in the country, will pay a $175,000 fine and refund $328,491 to customers who were billed for excessive sales charges between 2009 and 2014.
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Louisville-based PharMerica Settles Fraud Lawsuit
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PharMerica Corp., the Louisville-based company and one of the nation’s biggest providers of drugs to nursing homes, closed out its 2015 by agreeing to write another large check to the government to settle a lawsuit accusing it of defrauding federal health care programs.
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Papa John’s CEO, Koch Foundation Expand Free Enterprise Program at UK
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The foundations of pizza magnate John Schnatter and businessman Charles Koch have donated a combined $12 million to create a “free enterprise” teaching institute at the University of Kentucky. The donation, one of the largest in UK history, is double what the two groups made earlier this year to set up a similar program at the University of Louisville.
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PharMerica Pays $9.25 Million to Settle Health Care Fraud Suit
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PharMerica Corp., the Jeffersontown-based supplier of drugs to nursing homes, has agreed to pay $9.25 million to settle civil claims that it took kickbacks to boost sales of an anti-seizure drug.
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State Worker Pension Plan Sees Much Lower Returns Than Others in Kentucky
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Already home to one of the most underfunded public pension plans in the nation, Kentucky Retirement Systems is losing further ground through its investment choices.
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Kentucky Pension Fees Much Higher Than Previously Reported
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Following media reports last year, Kentucky Retirement Systems promised more disclosure. Now, the pension plan for public employees is reporting its annual investment expenses are running 75 percent higher than reported in previous years.
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House Speaker to Propose Expanded Gambling Legislation, Casinos in Kentucky
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House Speaker Greg Stumbo has pledged to propose a constitutional amendment to allow as many as seven casinos to open in Kentucky. In announcing his proposal, Stumbo cited KyCIR’s examination of tax revenues from eight casinos just across state lines on the north bank of the Ohio River.
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PharMerica Reaches Settlement in Amgen Payoff Case
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PharMerica Corp. has reached a preliminary out-of-court settlement with Kentucky and 25 other states that accused the Jeffersontown-based company of accepting payoffs from Amgen Inc. for switching nursing home patients to an Amgen anemia drug.
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Papa John’s to Settle Claims it Underpaid Delivery Drivers
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Papa John’s International says it has agreed to pay $12.3 million to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing the company of underpaying mileage reimbursements to its pizza delivery drivers in six states.
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Pitfalls of Trench Work Reprised in Fatal Louisville Accident
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Thursday’s death of a 19-year-old construction worker in a trench cave-in in south Louisville serves as yet another reminder of the dangers of doing utility work in deep holes. See just how many workers are injured and killed each year.