Latest Tennessee Headlines
All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Tennessee University Apologizes for Foul Over Basketball Prize Insurance Claim
Jan 30 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...
Tennessee’s Appalachian Underwriters Adds Three Brokers
Jan 27 2012 // Appalachian Underwriters has added three brokers to its property and professional practice group. Shane Holden has 20 years of insurance and risk management experience at the retail level. Most recently, he worked for...
Accident Insurance Hires Sadler to Cover Tennessee
Jan 24 2012 // Pam Sadler has joined Accident Insurance Co. as a business development representative for the state of Tennessee. Sadler joined AIC in December after spending more than 20 years as a marketing representative for Grain...
Mistakes at Tennessee Nuclear Reactor Cause Work Stoppage
Jan 24 2012 // Mistakes by construction workers at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts Bar reactor project, described last Friday by the utility’s chief executive as potentially fatal, idled about 1,000 workers temporarily...
Highway Deaths in Tennessee Fall Below 1,000
Jan 19 2012 // Tennessee’s highway deaths in 2011 stayed below 1,000 for just the third time in 48 years. Preliminary figures released by the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security show the state had 947...
Tennessee to Study Workers’ Compensation System
Jan 13 2012 // Tennessee state officials, business groups, labor leaders and legal experts are lining up to study the state’s workers’ compensation system, although it may be 2013 before any legislative deals are...
Tennessee Plant Owners Failed to Protect Against Explosive: Panel
Jan 10 2012 // A federal panel says a company knew of the explosive danger of dust throughout its Tennessee plant but didn’t do enough to prevent three separate blasts that killed five people last year. The U.S. Chemical Safety...
Tennessee Traffic Fatalities at Lowest Level in 49 Years
Jan 5 2012 // Tennessee traffic fatalities declined sharply this year, reaching their lowest figure in 49 years. So far in 2011, 926 people have died in wrecks in the state. It’s the fewest since 811 in 1962. Col. Tracy Trott of...
Tennessee Alters Surplus Lines Licensing
Dec 5 2011 // The expiration date for surplus lines licenses in Tennessee will soon have to coincide with the expiration of an agent’s primary insurance producer license. All surplus lines license expiration dates will be moved...
Tennessee Alters Surplus Lines Licensing
Nov 15 2011 // The expiration date for surplus lines licenses in Tennessee will soon have to coincide with the expiration of an agent’s primary insurance producer license. All surplus lines license expiration dates will be moved...
Factory Dust Explosions Killing Workers While Safety Rules Lag
Nov 15 2011 // Each year, people are killed and maimed by explosions of finely powdered wood, metal or chemicals at factories around the country. Safety experts have studied the threat posed by dust at industrial sites for nearly a...
Tennessee Caps Medical Malpractice Damages
Nov 7 2011 // Insurers in Tennessee will payout fewer damages in medical malpractice cases under a new cap on damages that took effect last month. The law also protects insurers from being sued under the state’s consumer...
Ratings Recap: Farmers of Tenn., Wisc. Am. Mutual, Commerce Protetctive
Oct 28 2011 // A.M. Best Co. has revised the outlook to negative from stable and affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit rating of “a” of Farmers Mutual of Tennessee. Best...
Tennessee Caps Medical Malpractice Damages
Oct 17 2011 // Insurers in Tennessee will payout fewer damages in medical malpractice cases after a new cap on damages took effect earlier this month. The new law also states insurers may no longer be sued under the state’s...
Motorists Sue Tennessee City Over Traffic Cameras
Oct 17 2011 // Motorists are suing Bluff City for $6 million over its traffic cameras. Chris Cawood and Jonathan Proffitt claim the city and Arizona-based American Traffic Solutions Inc. are conspiring to violate the federal Fair Debt...
People
Oct 17 2011 // USG Insurance Services Inc. has added Drake Burger and Steve Page as producers in its Tampa, Florida office. Burger most recently held the position of underwriter with Westrope Insurance Managers of Florida. Burger has...
Widow Sues Tennessee Veterans Hospital Over Husband’s Suicide
Oct 14 2011 // The widow of an Iraq war veteran from Tennessee claims in a lawsuit that the Veterans Affairs was negligent in failing to diagnose and treat his post-traumatic stress disorder before he committed suicide in 2008. The suit...
New Tennessee Workers’ Comp Exemption Law Takes Effect
Oct 13 2011 // More people are now eligible to claim exemptions from workers’ compensation in Tennessee as a result of a new law that took effect this month. The law expands eligibility for people who can apply for and be listed on...
Tennessee Trial on TVA Ash Spill Now in Fourth Week
Oct 12 2011 // The Tennessee Valley Authority’s coal ash trial started its fourth week with plaintiff attorneys cross-examining a TVA consultant who says he was hired to find what caused the spill, not to place blame. Geotechnical...
Tennessee’s Dollywood Sues German Builder Over Ride Malfunction
Oct 6 2011 // The Dollywood theme park in East Tennessee has filed a $500,000 lawsuit against a German company over a ride that park officials claim has malfunctioned. The suit, in Sevier County Circuit Court, claims the Timber Tower...
