Latest Tennessee Headlines
All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
State Lawmaker Drops Push to Legalize Medical Marijuana in Tennessee
Apr 5 2018 // One of the lead sponsors of a medical-marijuana bill in Tennessee withdrew the measure Tuesday after telling fellow lawmakers the legislation has been so watered down that passing it would actually harm rather than help...
Georgia-Based Auto Insurer Access Insurance To Be Liquidated
Apr 4 2018 // Insurance regulators in the Southeast are notifying policyholders in their states of a Texas-domiciled/Atlanta, Georgia-headquartered property/casualty insurance company that is to be liquidated after being placed in...
Workers’ Compensation Insurer Stonetrust Enters Missouri, Tennessee
Apr 3 2018 // Workers’ compensation insurer Stonetrust Commercial Insurance Co. has begun writing business in Missouri and Tennessee. Stonetrust, which is headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is also writing in Louisiana,...
Tennessee AG: State, Local Opioid Suits Complicating Settlement Efforts
Mar 23 2018 // The Tennessee attorney general says lawsuits by local prosecutors over the opioid epidemic are complicating his efforts to reach a multistate settlement with drug companies. In response, the prosecutors, who represent...
Tennessee Fines Agency Operator $187K, Revokes License for Defrauding Clients
Mar 22 2018 // A Tennessee insurance agency operator has been fined $187,000 in civil penalties and had his producer’s licensed revoked for defrauding clients, according to the Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance...
Severe Storms Spawn Tornadoes, Damage Homes in Southeast
Mar 21 2018 // Severe storms that spawned tornadoes damaged homes and downed trees as they moved across the Southeast on Monday night. Forecasters warned that the storms could threaten more than 29 million people, raising the risk of...
Tennessee Fines Chemical Plant $25K Over Hydrogen Explosion
Mar 20 2018 // Tennessee regulators have fined a chemical plant $25,000 for an explosion that shut down an interstate and put several schools on lockdown. WRCB-TV reported that the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
Tennessee Reports 60% Increase in DUIs at College Campuses
Mar 19 2018 // The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says reported DUI offenses on college campuses in the state have increased by more than 60 percent. The TBI said in a Thursday statement that its annual crime study detailing the...
Tennessee Theater Worker Dies After Carbon Dioxide Exposure
Mar 12 2018 // The president of a Tennessee variety show venue says one of its workers has died after a carbon dioxide leak. The Oak Ridger reports that David Fee, president and CEO of the Smoky Mountain Opry Theater in Pigeon Forge,...
Tennessee Workers’ Comp Bureau Launches Online Filing System
Mar 8 2018 // The Tennessee Bureau of Workers’ Compensation has begun using a new online filing system. A news release says the TNComp system lets attorneys and self-represented litigants file without printing copies or traveling...
Carbon Dioxide Leak at Tennessee Entertainment Venue Sends 3 Employees to Hospital
Mar 7 2018 // Authorities say a carbon dioxide leak at a Tennessee variety show venue led to the hospitalization of three employees and the evacuation of hundreds. Pigeon Forge Fire Department Chief Tony Watson tells news outlets...
SouthPoint Risk Advisors Acquires 2 Tennessee Agencies
Mar 6 2018 // SouthPoint Risk Advisors, an independent insurance agency based in Nashville, has announced it acquired two Tennessee agencies at the end of 2017. On Oct. 1, SouthPoint officially acquired Consolidated Insurance Services,...
Tennessee School Bus Driver Found Guilty in Crash That Killed 6 Kids
Mar 5 2018 // A former Tennessee school bus driver was found guilty Thursday of six counts of criminally negligent homicide in a wreck that killed six children. A Hamilton County Criminal Court jury convicted Johnthony Walker of lesser...
Tennessee Insurance Consumer Complaints Down Slightly in 2017
Mar 5 2018 // Insurance complaints decreased again in 2017 and remained the last of the top 10 consumer complaint categories, according to the Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance’s (TDCI) Division of Consumer...
Appalachian Underwriters Adds Wixom to Tennessee Office
Mar 2 2018 // Appalachian Underwriters, Inc. has added Siran Wixom as a Commercial Specialty Underwriter in its office in Oak Ridge, Tenn. She will be handling small to medium size Commercial Specialty accounts. Siran Wixom Wixom brings...
Tornadoes, Flooding From Severe Storms Cause Damage, Deaths in Appalachia
Feb 27 2018 // The death toll rose to at least five on Sunday after severe thunderstorms swept through the central U.S., spawning a tornado that flattened homes, gale force winds and widespread flooding from the Upper Midwest to...
Safeco to Take Up Mapfre’s Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana Business
Feb 20 2018 // MAPFRE Insurance, which last year decided to exit five states and focus on 11, is turning over its personal lines business in three of the five states it is leaving to Safeco Insurance, a Liberty Mutual unit. MAPFRE has...
18 States, Business Groups Oppose Coal Ash Cleanup Order at Tennessee Utility
Feb 16 2018 // Eighteen states, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, national coal industry interests and more than a dozen other groups are urging an appeals court to overturn a coal ash cleanup order at a federal utility’s Tennessee...
Tennessee Insurance Consumer Complaints Down Slightly in 2017
Feb 15 2018 // Insurance complaints decreased again in 2017 and remained last of the top 10 consumer complaint categories, according to the Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance’s (TDCI) Division of Consumer Affairs. The...
Heavy Rains Cause Flooding, Mud Slides in Appalachia
Feb 14 2018 // Heavy rains flooded areas and caused mudslides in parts of Appalachia, forcing dozens of people out of their homes and into shelters as the high water closed roads and schools. Kentucky Emergency Management spokeswoman...
