Latest Tennessee Headlines
All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Beware of Hidden Email Addresses: TN School Transferred $3M to Fake Account
Sep 17 2024 // A school district in Tennessee temporarily lost more than $3 million after a district employee was duped into sending funds to a fake vendor. The finance director for the Johnson County Board of Education, in northeast...
Workers at GM/LG Battery Plant in Tennessee Join UAW and Get Big Pay Raise
Sep 6 2024 // DETROIT (AP) — About 1,000 workers at a General Motors joint venture electric vehicle battery plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee, will get big pay raises now that they have joined the United Auto Workers union. GM and LG...
People Moves: CRC Group Adds Broker, Underwriter in Georgia, Tennessee
Sep 4 2024 // CRC Group, a wholesale specialty insurance distributor with headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama, has added new faces to its team in the Southeast. Rector Sam Rector joined the Nashville office as a broker. He has spent...
FCBI, a Florida Workers’ Comp Fund, Acquires MidSouth Mutual in Tennessee
Aug 26 2024 // FCBI, a self-insurance fund founded 45 years ago to provide workers’ compensation plans to Florida citrus growers, is expanding well beyond the Sunshine State with the acquisition of MidSouth Mutual Insurance Co. in...
OneDigital Expands With Acquisition of Elite Insurance in Tennessee
Aug 23 2024 // OneDigital, an insurance brokerage, financial services and human resources firm based in Atlanta, has acquired Elite Insurance Solutions, a property-casualty insurance agency in Franklin, Tennessee, the company announced...
Racer Scott Bloomquist Remembered After Plane Crash in Tennessee
Aug 20 2024 // Scott Bloomquist, a dirt track race car driver who was known for his bravado and for being one of the sport’s best, died Friday in a plane crash on his family’s farm in Mooresburg, Tennessee, friends and local...
Tennessee DCI Returns $9.5M to Policyholders in Mediated Claims Disputes
Aug 2 2024 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance so far this year has secured more than $9.5 million for policyholders whose insurance claims had been denied, the department announced this week. The payments, mostly from...
Storms Bring Flash Floods to Dollywood Amusement Park in Tennessee
Jul 31 2024 // PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (AP) — Strong thunderstorms brought flash flooding to Dolly Parton’s Dollywood in east Tennessee. Park workers and the Pigeon Forge police and fire departments directed guests to safety on...
Tennessee Sheriff Pleads Not Guilty to Using Prison Labor for Personal Profit
Jul 12 2024 // MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A sitting Tennessee sheriff pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he illegally profited from the work of jail inmates under his supervision and housed dozens of them in a home outside of the...
Hub International Acquires Wyatt Agency in Tennessee
Jul 10 2024 // Hub International Ltd., the global insurance brokerage and financial services firm, has expanded again with the acquisition of Wyatt Insurance Services in Tennessee. With offices in Knoxville and Clarksville, Wyatt is an...
Tennessee Turns Probe of Questioned Graceland Sale Over to Fed Authorities
Jun 28 2024 // MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee attorney general’s office said Tuesday that it has turned over its investigation into the failed sale of Elvis Presley’s home Graceland at a foreclosure auction to federal...
Fire at Carrie Underwood’s Tennessee Home Limited by Her 10,000-Gallon Water Tank
Jun 18 2024 // A fire at country music star Carrie Underwood’s Nashville-area home was limited to the garage, thanks in part to a 10,000-gallon water tank on the property. USA Today and local news outlets reported that an...
Safety Teams Investigating After Tennessee Industrial Fire That Killed Worker
Jun 5 2024 // State and federal safety officials are investigating a fatal explosion and fire at a Chattanooga, Tennessee, steel-hardening facility. The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board said it had sent a team to the...
Tennessee, Kentucky Tobacco Farmer Sentenced for Second Crop Insurance Fraud
May 31 2024 // A Kentucky tobacco farmer has been sentenced to more than three years in prison after pleading guilty to crop insurance fraud, eight years after he was convicted of similar crimes. David Manion, 61, who resides in...
Gallagher Updates Regulation for Artificial Intelligence
May 22 2024 // Gallagher’s Cyber practice remains laser focused on emerging technology and the potential for increased risks as organizations begin to use them. Throughout 2024, we’re concentrated on evolving compliance...
Liberty Co. Adds Ayers Brackfield Insurance in Tennessee
May 21 2024 // The Liberty Co. insurance brokers, based in Gainesville, Florida, continues its expansion with the addition of Ayers Brackfield Insurance in Knoxville, Tennessee. ABI, in business since 1992, has operated in 18 states,...
UAW Faces Key Test in the South With Upcoming Vote at Alabama Mercedes Plant
May 14 2024 // TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — After 20 years at the Mercedes-Benz factory in Alabama, Brett Garrard said he is “not falling for the lies anymore” and will vote for a union. The company has repeatedly promised to...
Tornadoes in Tennessee, North Carolina Kill Three, Damage Properties
May 9 2024 // High winds, hail, heavy rain and tornadoes battered Southern states from Alabama to North Carolina Wednesday and Thursday morning, leaving three people dead and hundreds of properties with heavy damage. USA Today, CNN and...
TN VW Employees Vote Overwhelmingly to Join United Auto Workers Union
Apr 22 2024 // CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Employees at a Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, overwhelmingly voted to join the United Auto Workers union Friday in a historic first test of the UAW’s renewed effort to...
Employers Can’t Use Vicarious Liability to Block Negligence Claims, TN High Court Says
Apr 10 2024 // The Tennessee Supreme Court this week dealt a blow to businesses and insurance companies, finding that employers can no longer argue that direct negligence claims are barred when the business admits vicarious liability for...
