Latest Tennessee Headlines
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Tennessee Licenses 200th Captive Insurance Company
Feb 21 2020 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) is marking the licensing of its 200th captive insurance company, Mattoon Insurance Co., making the state the seventh-largest captive domicile in the U.S.,...
Tennessee Teen Kidnapped by Teacher Settles with School District for $650K
Feb 20 2020 // A lawsuit has been settled between a Tennessee school district and a former student who was kidnapped by a teacher when she was 15. Tad Cummins sparked a 39-day nationwide manhunt when he fled the state with the former...
Tennessee Grand Jury Wants Criminal Investigation Into Coal Ash Worker Illnesses
Feb 20 2020 // A grand jury in Tennessee said it would support a criminal investigation into claims that a Tennessee Valley Authority contractor failed to protect workers cleaning up a massive coal ash spill, many of whom later fell ill...
Soggy Neighborhoods Under Flash-Flood Warning in Mississippi
Feb 19 2020 // Forecasters expected more heavy rains in parts of the flood-ravaged South on Tuesday, prolonging the misery in neighborhoods surrounded by water. Some of the hardest-hit areas were under a flash flood watch, as the...
Ex-FEMA Spokeswoman Dennis Tapped as TDCI Assistant Director of Communications
Feb 13 2020 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance (TDCI) has appointed Abbey Dennis as assistant director of Communications & External Affairs. Dennis most recently served as the deputy press secretary to the Federal...
Officials Monitoring Dams as Heavy Rains Wreak Havoc Across Multiple Southeast States
Feb 13 2020 // A Tennessee hillside collapsed, roads were flooded and rivers were rising across the Southeast on Tuesday after a day of heavy rains that once again threatened a Mississippi lake where a dam previously was in danger of...
Tennessee Teen Awarded $15M Over Brain Injury Suffered at Fort Campbell Hospital
Feb 10 2020 // A federal judge in Tennessee has awarded a $15 million judgment to a 15-year-old boy who suffered a brain injury at a hospital on the Fort Campbell Army post. The parents of the boy filed a medical malpractice lawsuit in...
Severe Storm Sweeps Through Southeast, Causes 5 Deaths
Feb 10 2020 // More than 260,000 homes and businesses in the southeastern United States were without power early Friday after a powerful storm raked the region. At least five people were killed. North Carolina had the most customers...
Homeowners Insurtech Openly Expands Into Tennessee
Feb 7 2020 // Openly Inc., an insurtech backed by Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI-focused venture fund, has gone live in Tennessee. The addition of Tennessee comes on the heels of the company’s launch and funding announcement...
Huddleston Named Director of Tennessee Insurance Department’s Insurance Division
Feb 5 2020 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance (TDCI) has promoted Bill Huddleston to TDCI’ s director of the Insurance Division. Huddleston, a longtime Nashville resident, has served in the department since 2014...
Embattled Tennessee Insurance Agent Fined $23K by State Regulator
Jan 29 2020 // A former Tennessee insurance agent facing more than 70 counts of insurance fraud has reached a settlement with the Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) barring her from practicing insurance activities in...
Earthquake Felt in Eastern Tennessee, Kentucky
Jan 22 2020 // A small earthquake hit East Tennessee on Monday, officials said. The U.S. Geological Survey said a magnitude 3.8 earthquake struck near Fincastle, Tennessee in Campbell County. A USGS map showed it was felt around East...
Labor Dept Rules Tennessee Utility Illegally Fired Whistleblower
Jan 17 2020 // The U.S. Department of Labor has ruled in favor of a nuclear engineer who says the Tennessee Valley Authority fired her in retaliation for reporting safety and personnel concerns. The Labor Department is ordering the...
Tennessee Touts Insurance Market Growth; Cites $31M Recovered for Consumers
Jan 13 2020 // More than $31.4 million was located and returned to Tennesseans in combined life insurance benefits/annuities and monies returned through the department’s mediation efforts in 2019, according to the Tennessee...
Judge: Survivors of Tennessee Wildfire Can Sue National Park Service
Jan 13 2020 // Survivors of a historically deadly Tennessee wildfire that killed 14 people can sue the National Park Service for failing to warn them of the danger, a federal judge has ruled. The fire began in the Great Smoky Mountains...
Former Willis CFO Edwards Appointed COO of Risk Strategies, Based in Tennessee
Jan 9 2020 // Risk Strategies, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has appointed Sharon Edwards as chief operating officer. She will join the firm’s executive committee and lead its operating...
Tennessee Opens Insurance License Testing Centers in Rural Communities
Dec 30 2019 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) has opened three new testing centers in rural Tennessee communities as part of its effort to better serve insurance agents and their customers in these areas, the...
Tennessee Approves 7% Decrease for Workers’ Comp Rates
Dec 23 2019 // Workers’ compensation rates in Tennessee will go down again next year, marking the seventh consecutive year of decreases, according to the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance. Commissioner Hodgen Mainda...
Sugar Crash: Truck Hauling 35K Pounds of M&Ms Overturns in Tennessee
Dec 16 2019 // A truck hauling about 35,000 pounds (15,876 kilograms) of M&M candies overturned on a Tennessee highway Friday morning, a Department of Transportation official confirmed. The semitrailer crashed on Interstate 40 near...
Corbett, Stalvey Appointed to New Roles to Further Grow Tennessee Captive Market
Dec 13 2019 // Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) Commissioner Hodgen Mainda has named two longtime Tennessee captive insurance experts to new roles in the department. Michael Corbett has been named to the newly...
