Latest Tennessee Headlines
All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Tennessee Workers’ Comp Mandate for Contractors Remains Up In Air
Dec 6 2009 // A special legislative session to reconsider a pending change to workers’ compensation insurance requirements in Tennessee will only take place if there’s a consensus among lawmakers, according to Gov. Phil...
Foremost Insurance Expands Dwelling Fire Program in 3 States
Dec 1 2009 // Foremost Insurance Group announced it is expanding its dwelling fire program in Montana, Nebraska and Tennessee, effective Dec. 1, 2009. Typically known as the solution for hard-to-place landlord and owner-occupied...
Lawsuits Over Tennessee Valley Coal Ash Spill On the Rise
Dec 1 2009 // The number of lawsuits filed against the Tennessee Valley Authority over a massive coal ash spill in Roane County has risen to 14. A breach in an earthen dike at the Kingston Fossil Plant sent 5.4 million cubic yards of...
Change to Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Mandate in Doubt
Nov 25 2009 // A special legislative session to reconsider a pending change to workers’ compensation insurance requirements in Tennessee should only take place if there’s a consensus among lawmakers, Gov. Phil Bredesen...
Family of Slain Tennessee Woman Settles with Apartment Complex
Nov 5 2009 // The family of a slain Tennessee college student has settled a lawsuit against the Knoxville apartment complex where she was fatally stabbed in 2004. Michael and Joan Berry of Lawrenceville, Ga., had sued Brendon Park...
Tennessee Hears Calls for Safety Oversight As ATV Death Toll Rises
Nov 1 2009 // An East Tennessee teenager’s October death in an all terrain vehicle accident brought the state’s 2009 death toll in ATV wrecks to eight, and a national consumer safety spokeswoman said the national death toll...
Tennessee Hears Calls for Safety Oversight As ATV Death Toll Rises
Oct 16 2009 // An East Tennessee teenager’s weekend death in an all terrain vehicle accident brought the state’s 2009 death toll in ATV wrecks to eight, and a national consumer safety spokeswoman said the national death toll...
Ex-Tennessee Titans Player’s $25M Suit Claims Team Kept Injury Secret
Sep 24 2009 // Former Tennessee Titans wide receiver David Givens claims the team failed to tell him about a defect in his knee that led to an injury and eventually ended his career. Givens claims in a $25 million lawsuit filed this week...
Car Theft Ring Targeted U. of Tennessee Football Fans for 10 Years
Sep 23 2009 // Federal authorities say two dozen people arrested earlier this year were part of a sophisticated car theft ring that targeted vehicles at University of Tennessee football home games. Unsealed federal documents examined by...
Business Moves
Sep 21 2009 // AmWINS/Managing Agency Charlotte, North Carolina-based national wholesale insurance broker AmWINS Group, Inc. has acquired The Managing Agency Group- Employee Benefits, a division of insurance broker Willis HRH. MAG-EB is...
Employers Must Keep Company Picnics and Team-Building Activities Voluntary
Sep 21 2009 // When Fun ‘n Games at Work Take a Bad Turn Phyllis Young and her co-worker and friend, Sarah Bales, won the hula-hoop contest and the balloon toss, making them the favorites to also win the three-legged sack...
Brentwood Services in Tennessee Promotes Whitten
Sep 9 2009 // Rick Whitten has been promoted to vice president of the Client Services Division with Brentwood Services Administrators in Brentwood, Tennessee. Whitten has been assistant vice president of Loss Control Services, based in...
Tennessee Suit Over False Report by Check Verification Firm Allowed
Sep 9 2009 // A person does not have to show actual damages to be able to sue a check verification firm for mistakenly reporting information affecting consumer credit files, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth District...
Tennessee Rejects Recovery If Product Defect Causes Economic Loss Only
Aug 31 2009 // The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that the state does not recognize an exception to the economic loss doctrine that generally bars damages if a product defect causes only economic loss and not any personal or...
Brown & Brown Acquires Benefits Unit of Roussel Agency of Tennessee
Aug 31 2009 // Florida-based insurance agency Brown & Brown has acquired the group employee benefits division of Roussel & Associates of Brentwood, Tennessee. The group employee benefits division, which has annualized revenues...
Tennessee’s First Horizon to Acquire Sandlin Insurance Agency
Aug 27 2009 // First Horizon Insurance Group, Inc., a subsidiary of First Tennessee Bank, the principal subsidiary of First Horizon National Corp., reports it has agreed to acquire the insurance business of Sandlin Insurance Agency...
Tennessee’s AUI Names Shelton to Head New Franchise, Affinity Unit
Aug 25 2009 // Oak Ridge, Tennessee-based Appalachian Underwriters Inc. (AUI) has formed a new franchise and affinity division, which will be led by Steve Shelton. This new division will work with franchisors, associations and affinity...
Kentucky National Enters Tennessee P/C Insurance Market
Aug 4 2009 // Kentucky National Insurance Co., a Lexington-based property/ casualty insurance company, began offering insurance to customers in Tennessee June 1, 2009. Kentucky National is offering auto, homeowners, boat, renters,...
Tennessee Cuts Workers’ Comp Costs
Aug 3 2009 // The implementation of a medical fee schedule in Tennessee after reforms passed in 2004 has helped save employers $1,300 per workers’ compensation case, according to a research group. A study by the Workers...
Jury Rules against Tennessee Woman in Racial Harassment Suit
Jul 31 2009 // A federal jury has ruled against a white woman who claims she was harassed for defending black co-workers at a Whirlpool factory in La Vergne. Treva Nickens said the harassment started when she agreed to testify for black...
