Latest Tennessee Headlines
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Farris Evans Insurance Agency in Tennessee Restructures Ownership
Feb 10 2017 // Farris Evans Insurance Agency (FEIA) of Memphis, Tenn., has restructured the ownership of the privately held firm and promoted Vice President Chadwick Willoughby, now a major equity holder of the company, to president. The...
Tennessee Police to Monitor School Buses After Deadly Crash
Feb 9 2017 // Law enforcement officers in Tennessee plan to follow and ride Hamilton County school buses at random after a bus crash killed six students in November. The Times Free Press says the Tennessee Highway Patrol, Hamilton...
Tennessee Valley Authority, Environmental Groups Await Decision on Pollution Case
Feb 7 2017 // The Tennessee Valley Authority finished a four-day trial Thursday in which environmental groups accuse the utility’s power plant outside Nashville, Tennessee, of illegally polluting the Cumberland River with coal...
Tennessee Wildfire Insurance Claims Hit $842M
Feb 6 2017 // Tennessee state officials said last month that insurance claims have topped $842 million in the deadly eastern Tennessee wildfires that burned thousands of buildings. The Knoxville News Sentinel reported the number,...
Tennessee Insurance Dept. Wraps Up 2016 With Disciplinary Actions Against 5 Agents
Jan 24 2017 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) has taken disciplinary actions including fines totaling more than $77,000, license revocation and other punishments against five Tennessee insurance licensees for...
People
Jan 23 2017 // Property and casualty veteran Mark LaBour has joined Alliant’s growing Florida practice. As vice president within the company’s Alliant Americas division, LaBour will deploy targeted risk management and...
Tornadoes, Hurricanes and Fires… Oh My! Southeast Weathers Tough 2016
Jan 23 2017 // It is fair to say 2016 was the year of the catastrophe in the Southeast. Tornadoes, drought, floods, hurricanes and wildfires impacted virtually every state in the region. For the insurance industry, these events made for...
Tennessee Wildfire Insurance Claims Top $842M
Jan 23 2017 // State officials say insurance claims have topped $842 million in the deadly eastern Tennessee wildfires that burned thousands of buildings. The Knoxville News Sentinel reported the number, provided the Tennessee Department...
Team Formed to Review How Wildfire Spread to Tennessee Tourist City
Jan 19 2017 // Authorities are forming a team to investigate the massive fires that tore through a Tennessee tourist city late last year, killing 14 people. The team will be made up of representatives from the Park Service, the U.S....
Tennessee School Bus Driver Evacuates Students Before Bus Bursts Into Flames
Jan 11 2017 // No students were injured when a Tennessee school bus burst into flames shortly after its driver noticed smoke and unloaded 29 children on board. Alcoa City Schools Director Brian Bell says that at about 7 a.m. Monday, the...
The Crichton Group Acquires RLH Agency in Nashville
Jan 11 2017 // The Crichton Group of Tennessee has acquired RLH Agency, LLC, a long-standing Middle Tennessee insurance agency focused on the construction industry. Robert L. Harris, insurance industry veteran and founder of RLH Agency,...
Tornadoes, Hurricanes and Fires… Oh My! 2016 A Rough Year for the Southeast
Jan 11 2017 // It is fair to say 2016 was the year of the catastrophe in the Southeast. Tornadoes, drought, floods, hurricanes, and wildfires impacted virtually every state in the region. For the insurance industry, these events made for...
Peaple – Southeast
Jan 9 2017 // Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) Commissioner Julie Mix McPeak will serve in 2017 as president-elect of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), the nation’s insurance...
Police Testify Driver in Deadly Tennessee School Bus Crash was Speeding
Dec 21 2016 // The 24-year-old driver in a Tennessee school bus crash that killed six children was speeding about 20 miles per hour over the 30 mile-per-hour limit, police testified Dec. 14, drawing tears from their families in...
Tennessee Joins International Information Exchange Agreement
Dec 21 2016 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance (TDCI) has joined the Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MMoU), an international supervisory cooperation and information exchange agreement. The MMoU is part of the...
Dolly Parton Telethon Raises $9M for Tennessee Wildfire Victims
Dec 20 2016 // Dolly Parton says a star-studded telethon for those affected by recent wildfires in her native Tennessee has brought in about $9 million. Parton headlined the event on Dec. 13 that was broadcast on several cable networks...
Brentwood Services Administrators Promotes Saldana in Tennessee
Dec 19 2016 // Brentwood Services Administrators Inc. (BSA), headquartered in Brentwood, Tenn., has promoted Nick Saldana to the position of claim representative II in its Tennessee Claims Department, according to Jeff Pettus, president...
National Association of Insurance Commissioners Elects 2017 Officers
Dec 16 2016 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) elected 2017 officers as follows: President: Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Ted Nickel. Nickel was appointed by Governor Scott Walker as Commissioner...
Tennessee Insurance Commissioner McPeak Elected NAIC President-Elect
Dec 16 2016 // Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) Commissioner Julie Mix McPeak will serve in 2017 as president-elect of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), the nation’s insurance...
Tennessee Wildfire Damage Estimated at $500M
Dec 15 2016 // Deadly wildfires caused more than $500 million in damage as they tore through a tourism community in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains and killed 14 people, local officials estimated Tuesday. Sevier County Mayor...
