Latest Tennessee Headlines
All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Number of Tennesseans Without Health Insurance at 10-Year Low
Nov 19 2014 // A new University of Tennessee report says the number of uninsured people in Tennessee has hit a 10-year low. The number of people without health insurance shrunk about 25 percent in the first year of the health insurance...
Wholesaler RT Specialty Acquires Tennessee Underwriters
Nov 4 2014 // Ryan Specialty Group’s wholesale brokerage, R-T Specialty, LLC (RT) has acquired the assets of excess and surplus broker, Tennessee Underwriters Inc. (TUI). A family-owned business, TUI was formed in 1980 in...
3 Employees Allege Racial Bias by Tennessee Temple University
Nov 2 2014 // Three one-time Tennessee Temple University employees have sued the school for alleged racial discrimination. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reported that Emmanuel Awotula, Dennis Clark and Jeffrey Davis filed a lawsuit...
Tennessee Officials Ask for Help on 16 Arsons
Oct 29 2014 // Police are asking for help after a string of fires in East Tennessee that have been ruled arson. Cocke County Sheriff Armando Fontes said there have been 16 arson blazes set since August, mostly in the area of...
Insurer Group Honors 3 Tennessee Lawmakers for Litigation Funding Law
Oct 15 2014 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies presented its State Legislator of the Year Award to three Tennessee state legislators. Reps. Curtis Johnson and Charles Sargent and Sen. Jack Johnson were recognized...
Flood Relief Loan Center Opens in Memphis, Tennessee
Oct 10 2014 // The U.S. Small Business Administration is opening an office in Memphis, Tennessee, to make it easier for residents affected by last month’s flooding to apply for disaster loans. The agency says it is opening a...
Risk Strategies Acquires Crow Friedman Group in Tennessee
Oct 8 2014 // Risk Strategies Co., an insurance brokerage in Boston which recently merged with New York-based broker DeWitt Stern, has acquired Crow Friedman Group, a professional liability brokerage in Memphis, Tennessee. Terms of the...
Former Lady Vols Media Chief Settles Bias Claim with U of Tennessee
Oct 6 2014 // Former Lady Vols media director Debby Jennings has reached a $320,000 settlement in her lawsuit against the University of Tennessee and athletic director Dave Hart. Jennings’ lawyer, David Burkhalter, released a...
U.S. Grant to Help Tennessee Reduce Worker Misclassification
Sep 17 2014 // Tennessee has received a $499,000 federal grant for efforts to stop worker misclassification. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the money will help Tennessee’s unemployment insurance tax programs identify...
Tennessee’s Bradshaw Insurors joins Keystone Insurers Group
Sep 4 2014 // Bradshaw & Company Insurors of Dyersburg is Keystone Insurers Group’s newest franchise partner in Tennessee. The agency offers auto, home, business, farm, life and health insurance. Bradshaw & Co. was...
Tenn. State Senator, Insurance Agent Tracy Concedes in Congressional Primary
Aug 26 2014 // Tennessee’s Republican state senator who challenged scandal-plagued U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais conceded his 38-vote primary loss to the incumbent on Monday, saying he decided not to challenge the results. Jim Tracy...
Husband of Tennessee UPS Pilot Sues Honeywell Over Fatal Crash
Aug 19 2014 // The husband of a Tennessee pilot killed when a UPS cargo jet crashed in Alabama has filed suit against the company that made warning equipment used in the aircraft. Bret Tucker Fanning is seeking $2 million in his federal...
Tennessee-Based Community Health Reports 4.5M Records Hacked
Aug 19 2014 // Chinese hackers stole social security numbers, names and addresses from 4.5 million patients of Community Health Systems Inc., the second-biggest for-profit U.S. hospital chain, according to the company. The attacks...
States Still Grappling with Surplus Lines Tax Sharing
Aug 15 2014 // Things have changed a bit for the surplus lines industry since the Non-admitted and Reinsurance Reform Act, (NRRA) part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform legislation, passed in 2010. The NRRA’s implementation has...
Tennessee Valley Authority to Pay $28M to Coal Ash Victims
Aug 5 2014 // The nation’s largest public utility has agreed to pay $27.8 million to settle claims from Tennessee property owners who suffered damages from a huge spill of toxin-laden coal ash sludge. The 2008 spill happened when...
Tennessee Tornado Victim Had Stolen Goods in Home: Police
Aug 4 2014 // When neighbors in Kingsport, Tennessee went to help a man whose home bore the brunt of a tornado, they made a discovery police say couldn’t have been caused by the wind. Police spokesman Thomas Patton told WBIR-TV in...
Weekend Storm Destroys Homes in Tennessee; No Injuries Reported
Jul 29 2014 // Powerful storms that raked across several states in the eastern U.S. on Sunday destroyed at least 10 homes in Tennessee, but there were no immediate reports of any deaths or injuries, authorities said. Spokeswoman Gina...
Surplus Lines Tax Sharing Solution Still Up for Debate
Jul 21 2014 // Things have changed a bit for the surplus lines industry since the Non-admitted and Reinsurance Reform Act, (NRRA) part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform legislation, passed in 2010. The NRRA’s implementation has...
Litigation Finance Firm Blames Tenn. Law for Exit
Jul 21 2014 // A litigation funding firm said it is leaving Tennessee as the state now regulates their business of loaning money to consumers bringing lawsuits. Illinois-based Oasis Legal Finance, one of the country’s largest...
Southeast Has Higher Tornado Fatality Risk Than Midwest
Jul 7 2014 // Oklahoma and Kansas may have the reputations as tornado hot spots, but Florida and the rest of the Southeast are far more vulnerable to killer twisters, a new analysis shows. Florida leads the country in deaths calculated...
