Latest Tennessee Headlines
All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Tennessee Tech Develops Low-cost Sensors to Help Detect Flooding
Oct 24 2022 // Extreme rainfall events, and the dangerous floods that follow them, are happening more often in Tennessee. This risk grows as the climate warms. To respond to this risk, climate scientists, engineers and emergency mangers...
Tennessee to Vote on ‘Right-to-Work’ Constitutional Amendment
Oct 18 2022 // As unions see new hope from organizing U.S. businesses ranging from Starbucks storefronts to an Amazon warehouse, Republican-led Tennessee will officially take its voters’ temperature on an organized labor issue in...
People Moves: Epic Insurance Names Rains Managing Principal in Tennessee
Sep 21 2022 // EPIC Insurance Brokers, a property and casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consultant, announced that is has named Parker Rains as managing principal for its property/casualty practice. Rains Rains, based in...
Smart Choice Makes Tennessee Agency Its 22nd Acquisition
Sep 20 2022 // Smart Choice, a network of independent agents, has acquired Carriage Hill Insurance, an agency in Tennessee. The agency has $4 million in annual revenue, with offices in Lenoir City, Oak Ridge, Brentwood and Athens,...
Starbucks to Rehire 7 Workers Fired During Tennessee Unionization Effort
Sep 8 2022 // Coffee store giant, Starbucks Corp., will reinstate seven employees who were fired in February after leading an effort to unionize a Memphis store. The seven workers will get their jobs back after the Seattle-based coffee...
Rains Insurance Acquires Sunbelt Agency in Tennessee
Sep 7 2022 // Rains Insurance Inc. has acquired the operating assets of Chattanooga-based Sunbelt Group, marking the first acquisition of an independent insurance agency by Rains. Rains, also an independent agency, is a subsidiary of...
Safe TN App, Inspections Helps Schools Stay Safer from Guns, Governor Says
Sep 1 2022 // Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Tuesday that an executive order on school safety from June has so far produced a new mobile app, school behavioral health professionals in each county and updated law enforcement training and...
Two Law Officers Killed in Helicopter Crash in Tennessee
Aug 26 2022 // Federal and state officials are investigating after two Tennessee law enforcement officers died when their helicopter hit power lines and crashed in a wooded area near Chattanooga. Tennessee Highway Patrol Sgt. Lee Russell...
Covenant Health in Tennessee Settles ADA Action by Justice Department
Aug 24 2022 // The U.S. Department of Justice reached a settlement with Knoxville, Tennessee-based Covenant Health over claims that it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act. The settlement comes in the case of a deaf man who...
Lockton Names 2 Execs in Tennessee
Aug 22 2022 // Lockton, a global brokerage firm that provides insurance and employee benefits, has named two new executives in its Tennessee region. Brown Jay Brown, with 25 years of experience, will be president in Lockton’s...
Tennessee Private Prison Firm Settles Lawsuit After Inmate’s Death
Aug 17 2022 // A private prison company has agreed to settle a federal lawsuit over a Tennessee inmate’s killing that gained national attention after a judge ordered the plaintiff’s attorney to stop tweeting about...
Tennessee Launches its Own Captive Insurance Company for Cyber, Property
Aug 10 2022 // Tennessee regulators, who for years have touted the state as a comfortable home for captive insurance companies, have announced that the state government has created its own captive. The state is self-insured for property...
Tennessee’s Kemmons Wilson Joins Virtus Brokerage
Aug 9 2022 // Virtus LLC, a Kansas City-based insurance brokerage and consulting firm, has joined forces with Kemmons Wilson Insurance Group, a Memphis company that specializes in insuring hospitality and hotel firms. The combined firm...
Tennessee’s Workers’ Comp System Limits Help for Injuries, Newspaper Reports
Jul 18 2022 // Sedgwick, one of the largest workers’ compensation claims-management firms in the United States, was penalized by Tennessee regulators more than any other company in the last five years. But most of the fines have...
Higginbotham Adds Mathis Broker in Tennessee
Jul 15 2022 // Mathis, Tibbets & Mathis, a 36-year-old independent broker of commercial and personal property/casualty insurance, surety bonds and employee benefits plans, based in Memphis, has been acquired by...
Oakbridge Continues SE Expansion with Tennessee’s Assurance Center
Jul 14 2022 // Atlanta-based Oakbridge Insurance Agency, one of the largest regional agencies, has added The Assurance Center to its family. Assurance, headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, is a risk consultancy and agency with an...
A Year Later: Tennessee Flood that Killed 20 Challenges Community
Jun 22 2022 // When a flash flood tore through Waverly, Tennessee, 17-year-old Zoe Turner ran to safety on the top floor of her family’s home. The rushing water would claim the lives of 20 of her neighbors, damage more than 700...
Tennessee Regulators Tout Insurance Industry Growth in the State
Jun 7 2022 // Tennessee regulators are crowing about the considerable growth in the insurance industry the state has seen in the last two years. Insurance Commissioner Carter Lawrence said in a bulletin posted Tuesday that the 294,000...
Tennessee Supreme Court Hears Coal-Ash Workers’ Arguments
Jun 3 2022 // Tennessee Supreme Court justices fired numerous questions Wednesday at a company that is challenging lawsuits alleging its workers were sickened or died after cleaning up the nation’s worst coal ash spill, which...
Sovereign Immunity No Defense in $3B Tenn. Coal-Ash Lawsuit, 6th Circuit Rules
May 23 2022 // Sovereign immunity does not protect a federal contractor against a lawsuit filed by some 60 former employees seeking $3 billion in punitive damages for illnesses suffered after exposure to toxic coal ash during a clean-up...
