Tag: courts
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Cabinet files appeal to prevent releasing full child abuse records; Beshear backs decision
On the day the state was supposed to release unadulterated records on deaths and near deaths from child abuse, under a court order, it filed an appeal to stop the...
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Kentucky court hearing more than 100 cases about drug that caused heart arrhythmia
More than 100 lawsuits filed by people who say they or their family members were hurt by Darvon, Darvocet or other drugs that contain the ingredient propoxyphene have been heard...
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PIkeville Medical Center agrees to pay $36,000 to settle claim that it improperly billed Medicare
Pikeville Medical Center has agreed to pay more than $36,000, but does not have to admit any wrongdoing, to settle a lawsuit that accused it of improperly billing Medicare. The...
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Jury tells nursing home to pay $1 million to former resident
A Fayette County jury has decided that Lexington’s Cambridge Place Nursing Home will have to pay more than $1 million in damages to a former resident who fell and was...
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Ex-boss of defunct Jenkins personal-care home accepts federal plea deal; he and relatives still face state charges
“The former administrator of a Letcher County personal-care home that was recently shut down by the state pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to a charge that he took thousands...
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U of L physicians’ group drops open-records appeal, but C-J may still not get records
An organization representing University of Louisville doctors who were trying to keep their financial records private dropped its lawsuit appealing an adverse open-records decision Tuesday. In April, Attorney General Jack...
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Former boss of troubled personal-care home is indicted
“Another former administrator of a troubled Letcher County personal care home has been indicted on charges of witness tampering and theft,” Beth Musgrave reports for the Lexington Herald-Leader. A county...
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Judge issues permanent injunction barring Medi-Share, a Christian health-coverage plan, from operating in Kentucky
After a legal battle that lasted almost nine years, the Christian health-coverage plan Medi-Share will be prohibited from operating in Kentucky, Franklin Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate decided today. The state...