Latest Tennessee Headlines
All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Answer Financial Relocating Main Tennessee Sales Center to Knoxville
Oct 2 2013 // Online insurance agency Answer Financial Inc. is relocating its main Tennessee call center to West Knoxville. The office is slated to open next week. The agency is celebrating its new state-of-the-art sales center with a...
Judge Allows Tennessee Rules on Health Insurance Navigators
Oct 2 2013 // A judge refused to block emergency rules covering people who dispense advice on the new health insurance exchange in Tennessee that launched Tuesday. Chancellor Russell T. Perkins ruled Monday evening that the...
Insurance Pros in Politics: Being an Agent Prepared Tennessee Sen. Ketron for Politics
Sep 12 2013 // Insurance was a great training ground for now State Sen. Bill Ketron, who has been a member of the Tennessee Senate since 2002 while also serving as president of his own independent agency founded by his late...
Atlas General Insurance Services, LLC, Announces Its Expansion into Tennessee with Opening of Dedicated Marketing Office
Sep 10 2013 // San Diego, CA, 9/10/13 – Atlas General Insurance Services, LLC, a national multi-line program manager, is pleased to announce the opening of a dedicated marketing office located in Knoxville, Tenn. The new office will be...
Tennessee Court Reinstates $43.8M Verdict for Auto Accident Victim
Sep 6 2013 // The Tennessee Supreme Court has reinstated a $43.8 million verdict for a Memphis child who was paralyzed in an auto accident. According to court records, Billy Meals was 6 years old on Jan. 18, 2002. He was riding in the...
Tennessee, North Carolina Football Players Sue NCAA Over Concussions
Sep 6 2013 // Three former college football players are suing the NCAA, saying it failed to educate them about the risks of concussions and did not do enough to prevent, diagnose and treat brain injuries. Chris Walker and Ben Martin,...
Tennessee’s Jamieson & Fisher Joins Keystone Insurers Group
Aug 29 2013 // Keystone Insurers Group said Covington, Tenn.-based agency Jamieson & Fisher Inc. has become its 21st franchise partner in the state. The announcement was made by Jamieson & Fisher President Ed Kaiser and Keystone...
Tennessee’s Heavy Rains Tested Lessons from 2010 Flood
Aug 12 2013 // Unusually heavy summer rainfalls in Tennessee have given the agencies involved in flood control and emergency management a chance to show that they have learned to cooperate after the disastrous missteps of...
Victims in Meningitis Outbreak Cleared to File Product Liability Suits
Jul 29 2013 // Victims in Tennessee of a deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak won the right to pursue a new avenue of litigation against healthcare facilities and doctors there, after a ruling by a U.S. bankruptcy judge this week. Tennessee...
Severe Flooding Can Happen In a Flash, Tennessee City Learns
Jul 23 2013 // This is why they call it a flash flood. A rainy night in South Pittsburg, Tenn., on July 10 quickly turned into something legendary. Relentless rains spawned a newborn river that decided to make its way right through...
Tennessee Health Club Sued Over Legionnaire’s Disease
Jul 22 2013 // A man who used a Memphis fitness club linked to cases of Legionnaires’ disease has filed a $2 million lawsuit. The Commercial Appeal reported attorney Sadler Bailey filed the negligence suit in Shelby County Circuit...
Tennessee Seminars to Review Workers’ Compensation Law Changes
Jul 19 2013 // The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development is holding a series of 14 seminars across the state to explain the Workers’ Compensation Reform Act of 2013. The new law removes injured workers’...
Haslam Names Hudgens to Head Tennessee’s New Injured Workers’ Division
Jul 2 2013 // Republican Gov. Bill Haslam has named Abbie Hudgens as the head of the state’s new Workers’ Compensation Division. Hudgens, who had already been focusing on injured workers issues within the state Department of...
Tennessee Conference Focuses on Workers’ Compensation Changes
Jun 21 2013 // Changes to the state’s workers’ compensation system is the focus of the Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference this week. The three-day conference began on Wednesday at the Nashville...
Tenn. Consumer Affairs: Don’t Get Burned by Air Condition Repair-Scam Artists
Jun 18 2013 // With the weather reaching sweltering temperatures this summer, it is important to have a working, reliable air conditioning unit. But scam artists often use the rise in temperatures to take advantage of consumers by...
Tennessee Tightens Regulations on Compounding Pharmacies
Jun 14 2013 // The Tennessee Board of Pharmacy said it has adopted new regulations for compounding pharmacies licensed by the state following recent outbreaks of illnesses associated with tainted medicines created at these specialty...
Helicopter Maker Fights Suit by Tennessee Soldiers’ Families Over Deadly Crash
Jun 5 2013 // A federal judge will rule in coming weeks whether the families of two Tennessee National Guard members can sue the makers of a helicopter in which the soldiers died. According to the Knoxville News Sentinel, the case...
Tennessee City Debates Red Light Cameras
May 21 2013 // A group in Murfreesboro has started a petition to end the use of red-light cameras, but police say the traffic enforcement measure has improve safety. Middle Tennessee State University student Axl David, who heads Citizens...
Tennessee Approves Workers’ Compensation Changes
May 20 2013 // Tennessee’s workers’ compensation system is going to undergo its most significant changes in decades including the creation of a new administrative court system to handle workers’ compensation...
Tennessee Governor Signs Workers’ Compensation Bill
May 9 2013 // Tennessee’s workers’ compensation system is going to undergo its most significant changes in decades including the creation of a new administrative court system to handle workers’ compensation...
