Latest Tennessee Headlines
All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Tennessee Insurance Dept. Makes Multiple Leadership Changes
Jan 25 2021 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) has announced multiple senior leadership role additions and staffing updates from Commissioner Carter Lawrence. Jennifer Peck Jennifer Peck has assumed the role...
Tennessee Touts 2020 Growth of Insurance Industry, Consumer Efforts
Jan 20 2021 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) has located and returned more than $22.8 million to Tennesseans in combinedlife insurance benefits/annuities and monies through its mediation efforts in...
Reliance Partners of Tennessee Promotes Shelton
Jan 12 2021 // Reliance Partners, a privately-held commercial insurance agency for the transportation and logistics industry, has promoted Missi Shelton to vice president of Customer Service, National Accounts. Shelton will lead...
Tennessee-Based Sedgwick Names Fisher Chief Data Officer
Jan 7 2021 // Sedgwick, a global provider of technology-enabled risk, benefits and integrated business solutions headquartered in Tennessee, has appointed Adam R. Fisher to a new company role as chief data officer. Fisher will lead...
Babies Born Addicted to Opioids Can Sue Drug Makers: Tennessee High Court
Dec 22 2020 // The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that opioid producers can be sued under the state’s Drug Dealer Liability Act, allowing a lawsuit filed on behalf of children born dependent to opioids to move forward. The high...
International Paper Relocates Captive from Vermont to Tennessee
Dec 22 2020 // Memphis-based global fiber-based packaging, pulp and paper products leader International Paper has relocated its captive insurance company from Vermont to Tennessee, according to a statement from The Tennessee Department...
Tennessee Lawmakers Explore Limiting Executive Authority During Health Crises
Dec 4 2020 // Tennessee lawmakers who have often been critical of government restrictions to curb COVID-19’s spread are suggesting ways to give themselves the power to limit or overturn emergency orders from the governor during...
Workers’ Comp Loss Cost Decrease of 9.2% Approved in Tennessee
Dec 3 2020 // Workers’ compensation rates in Tennessee are expected to decrease next year after a 9.2% overall loss cost decrease was approved. Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance Commissioner Carter Lawrence approved...
U.S. Administrator Claims of Tennessee Adds Goff, Whalen as Managers
Nov 19 2020 // U.S. Administrator Claims has promoted Michael Goff to senior director to lead all claim operations. In addition to this promotion, the company has also hired Greg Whalen to be director of General Liability and Property...
Lawrence to Lead Tennessee Insurance Department
Nov 17 2020 // Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has selected Carter Lawrence to serve in his cabinet as commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance, effective immediately, according to a statement form the...
Frank Winston Crum Expands GL, Excess Programs into N.C., S.C., Tenn.
Nov 12 2020 // Frank Winston Crum Insurance (FWCI) has launched general liability and excess liability insurance programs in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee to coincide with its previously available worker’s...
Insurors of Tennessee Appoints Representative Ron Travis as CEO
Nov 6 2020 // Insurors of Tennessee has named Representative Ron Travis as the new CEO for the organization, effective Nov. 16, 2020. Ron Travis Travis (R-Dayton) is a state representative for District 31 (Bledsoe, Rhea, Sequatchie and...
Former NYPD Officer Ordered to Pay $1M Over Tennessee Break-In
Nov 4 2020 // A federal judge has ordered a former New York City police officer to pay $1 million to a Black woman whose house the white officer broke into during a drunken bachelor party in Nashville, Tennessee before he threatened her...
Tennessee Insurance Head Steps Down After Sexual Misconduct Investigation
Nov 2 2020 // A Tennessee insurance commissioner who submitted his resignation last week faced an investigation over allegations of sexual misconduct by one of his department’s employees, records show. According to a Department of...
NTSB Investigating Tennessee Bus Crash that Killed Child, Driver
Oct 30 2020 // Federal and state authorities on Wednesday investigated a crash between a school bus carrying 24 children and a utility vehicle that killed the bus driver and a 7-year-old girl in eastern Tennessee. Eight other children...
Scott Benefit Services Expands Senior Living Practice in Southeast
Oct 26 2020 // Scott Benefit Services, a division of Scott Insurance, will expand its Senior Living Practice into additional markets in the Southeast region. The Senior Living Practice, led by Pim Jager, vice president and branch leader...
USI Insurance Services to Acquire Findley of Tennessee
Oct 22 2020 // USI Insurance Services has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Nashville, Tenn.-based Findley, Inc. Subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals, the transaction is expected to close...
Tennessee Governor to Extend Local Mask Executive Order
Oct 21 2020 // Gov. Bill Lee intends to extend an executive order that allows the majority of Tennessee’s counties the option to require face coverings in public as the state has seen coronavirus case counts grow. Gillum Ferguson,...
Tennessee Insurance Department Promotes Habart
Oct 15 2020 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) has promoted Jonathan Habart to the role of Captive Insurance Section assistant director. As a TDCI team member since 2016, Habart recently served as a TDCI...
U.S. Dept. of Labor Orders Tennessee Restaurant Chain to Pay $563K in Back Wages
Oct 13 2020 // A small Tennessee restaurant chain has been ordered to pay $563,350 in back wages to 120 employees after the U.S. Department of Labor found it violated minimum wage and overtime rules. Don Pancho Mexican Restaurant kept a...
