Latest Tennessee Headlines
All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Smalling, Muller Join Tennessee’s Lexon Surety
Jul 6 2012 // Lexon Surety Group. a Hermitage, Tenn.-based surety bonds firm, has added two people to its executive team. Jeffery Smalling will be joining as assistant vice president of commercial surety. William Muller will be joining...
Business Moves – Southeast
Jul 2 2012 // Gallagher, Whitehaven Illinois-based global insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Whitehaven Insurance Group, Inc. in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in...
Tennessee Court Rules on Workers’ Statute of Limitations
Jul 2 2012 // A worker who witnessed the deaths of two co-workers but did not file a post-traumatic stress disorder claim until more than a year after the second death is still entitled to workers’ compensation benefits, the...
Tennessee Court Rules on Workers’ Comp Statute of Limitations in Stress Case
Jun 13 2012 // A worker who witnessed the deaths of two co-workers but did not file a post-traumatic stress disorder claim until more than a year after the second death is still entitled to workers’ compensation benefits, the...
Tennessee Family Sues County Schools, Claims Bullying
Jun 6 2012 // The family of a former Clarksville-Montgomery County Schools student has filed a lawsuit, claiming school officials failed to shield their daughter from bullying. According to The Leaf-Chronicle, the civil lawsuit was...
Tennessee Cracks Down on Roofing Contractor Fraud
Jun 4 2012 // Roofing contractors operating in Tennessee will have to provide residents whose homes are damaged due to tornadoes and other storms with more information about their company and about their rights to cancel contracts under...
Tennessee Court Nixes $2.7 Million Insurance Claim from Bar Fight
Jun 1 2012 // The Tennessee Supreme Court has overturned a ruling that said an insurance company must pay $2.7 million in damages for a bar fight in Hendersonville that left one man dead and injured another. The state’s highest...
Tennessee Cracks Down on Roofing Contractor Fraud
May 21 2012 // Roofing contractors operating in Tennessee will have to provide residents whose homes are damaged due to tornadoes and other storms with more information about their company and about their rights to cancel contracts under...
Southeast Agency, Carrier Plans Brighten Jobs Picture
May 7 2012 // Those interested in new or better positions in insurance might want to grab their suntan lotion and head to the Southeast. They might also want to brush up on their Spanish. The unemployment rate remains higher in key...
Southeast Agencies, Carriers Now Hiring
May 7 2012 // Here is some of the positive insurance employment news for the Southeast: Allstate In February, Allstate Insurance announced it was looking to appoint 124 new agency owners in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and South...
Donor Agrees to Pay Insurance for Bessie Smith Event in Tennessee
Apr 27 2012 // An anonymous donor has stepped up to ensure the Bessie Smith Strut will go on, preserving the annual music event honoring the hometown blues singer. The board chairman of the Bessie Smith Cultural Center told the...
Tennessee to Arrest Illegal Drivers Involved in Serious Auto Accidents
Apr 26 2012 // Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has signed into law a bill that for the first time would require law enforcement officials to arrest drivers involved in serious automobile accidents who don’t have a valid driver’s...
Tennessee Lawsuit Charges ‘Bachelor,’ ‘Bachelorette’ TV Shows with Racial Bias
Apr 20 2012 // Two black men are taking “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” to court with a lawsuit that claims the reality shows are blocking contestants of color from starring roles. Nathaniel Claybrooks and...
Southeast Insurance Employment: Agency, Carrier Plans Brighten Picture
Apr 18 2012 // Those interested in new or better positions in insurance might want to grab their suntan lotion and head to the Southeast. They might also want to brush up on their Spanish. The unemployment rate remains higher in key...
Tennessee Warns on Certificates of Insurance
Apr 16 2012 // Authorities in Tennessee are warning agents that certificates of insurance must be consistent with the underlying policy or they risk being penalized under state law. The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance...
Tennessee Hoping Federal Program Reverses Recent Rise in Traffic Deaths
Apr 13 2012 // After years of declines in traffic fatalities, deaths in crashes are on the rise again in Tennessee. But state highway officials are hoping a federal demonstration project will reverse that trend. Kendell Poole, director...
Judge Orders 3 Tennessee Attorneys to Repay Insurance Monies
Apr 9 2012 // A judge in Nashville has found three Memphis attorneys in contempt of court and ordered them to repay nearly $670,000 to people who thought they were buying health insurance. The Tennessean reported Davidson County...
Tennessee Issues Warning on Certificates of Insurance
Apr 4 2012 // Authorities in Tennessee are warning agents that certificates of insurance must be consistent with the underlying policy or they risk being penalized under state law. The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance...
Small Towns in Southeast Hit Hard by Tornadoes
Mar 5 2012 // Residents of towns throughout the Southeast are recovering from the shock of last Friday’s severe storms and tornadoes. Along with pubic and insurance officials, they are beginning to assess the damage from the...
Tennessee School Admits Foul Over Basketball Insurance
Feb 20 2012 // A Tennessee state university has apologized to an insurance company after representing that the insurer improperly denied a $20,000 prize claim to fund a promotional contest held during a basketball game. East Tennessee...
