Latest Tennessee Headlines
All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Tennessee Court Rules against Alcoa in Asbestos Suit
Sep 12 2008 // Alcoa Inc. can be sued for the asbestos-related death of a former worker’s daughter, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled. The Pittsburgh-based company had argued that it should not be held responsible for Maryville...
Tennessee Police Dog not Dead; Insurance Fraud Alleged
Sep 8 2008 // A West Tennessee prosecutor will not say whether he intends to press charges in the case of an Oakland police dog whose death may have been faked to collect a $5,000 insurance benefit. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation...
Pillow Named Tennessee Assistant Commissioner for Fire Prevention
Aug 12 2008 // Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance Commissioner Leslie Newman appointed James H. “Jim” Pillow as the assistant commissioner for the state’s Fire Prevention Division. Pillow recently spent four...
Motorcycle Fatalities in Tennessee Increasing
Aug 11 2008 // Fatal motorcycle accidents in Tennessee are increasing corresponding with a rise in the number of people being issued motorcycle licenses. According to the Tennessee Department of Safety, the number of motorcycle licenses...
Tennessee Nuclear Weapons Plant Responds to Rubber Shop Fire
Aug 6 2008 // Authorities were searching for the cause of a fire in a shop at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee that forced the evacuation of 95 workers, but caused no injuries. A National Nuclear Security...
Tennessee-based Unum Group Accelerates $350M Share Repurchase
Aug 5 2008 // Unum Group, headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee, entered into an accelerated repurchase agreement with Deutsche Bank, AG London Branch to repurchase approximately $350 million of its outstanding common stock. The Aug....
Stunning Workers’ Comp for Cops in Tennessee
Aug 4 2008 // Police in Brownsville, Tenn. will soon be armed with electric stun devices. Mayor Webb Banks said officials realize the weapons are controversial, but if police tell people they have them, officials believe officers...
Selective Insurance Touts Q2 Workers’ Comp Improvement, Mass. Expansion
Aug 1 2008 // Selective Insurance reported that new premiums declined for the second quarter while workers’ compensation results improved and its recent expansion into the commercial markets in Massachusetts and Tennessee is going...
Tennessee Utility, College Get Federal Relief for Tornado Damage
Jul 30 2008 // The federal government approved $5.7 million in disaster assistance funding for two Tennessee institutions that suffered tornado damage, Gov. Phil Bredesen said. These grants are part of the federal Public Assistance...
Insurance Payments Fall Short of Repair Costs after Tennessee Tornado
Jul 25 2008 // Tennessee officials razed fairgrounds bleachers damaged by a tornado in Clarksville, Tennessee. Parks and Recreation Director Kevin Cowling said the tornado on May 3 moved parts of the concrete bleachers 2 inches. A...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Tennessee-based Gale Smith & Co.
Jul 24 2008 // Itasca, Ill.-based Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. acquired Gale Smith & Company, Inc. of Brentwood, Tennessee. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1868, Gale Smith & Co. is a retail...
Mutual Assurance Acquires Tennessee-based Pittman & Associates
Jul 22 2008 // Mutual Assurance Administrators Inc. (MAA) of Oklahoma City has acquired Pittman & Associates Inc. (P&A) of Tennessee. Mutual Assurance Administrators Inc. is a third-party administrator specializing in...
American E&S Appoints New Broker in Tennessee
Jul 22 2008 // Paul McCulloch joined American E&S Insurance Brokers as senior vice president and broker in its Nashville, Tenn. office. McCulloch will focus on building national programs and facilities. With more than 20 years in...
Tennessee Safety Officials to Investigate Fatal Workplace Accident
Jul 10 2008 // A fall from a platform area at Alstom Power Inc. in Chattanooga, Tennessee killed a 48-year-old man. Police said investigators are trying to pinpoint the cause of the fall from a height of more than 30 feet on July...
Tennessee Insurance Chief Files Building Code Emergency Rules
Jul 9 2008 // Leslie Newman, commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance, filed emergency rules with the Tennessee Secretary of State to allow building plans to be submitted and reviewed under either the 2003...
Tennessee to Register Scrap Metal Dealers
Jul 7 2008 // Tennessee’s Department of Commerce and Insurance will be promulgating rules for a scrap metal marking system, uniform terminology to describe the metals most commonly sold as scrap and a system for registering scrap...
Declarations
Jul 7 2008 // Picking Up Non-Renewals “I feel confident that the people on the Gulf Coast that have been canceled by State Farm will be able to buy insurance from Allstate and Nationwide and others that I have not...
Imprisoned Tennessee Insurance Executive Charged with Bribery
Jul 1 2008 // A former Tennessee insurance executive is accused of trying to buy his way out of prison. Federal authorities charged James Michael Foley of Germantown last week with bribery of a government official and obstruction of...
Tennessee Highway Patrol Cracking Down on Dangerous Driving
Jun 30 2008 // The Tennessee Highway Patrol began a summer crackdown on drivers who speed, drive while impaired or do not use safety belts. The initiative the state kicked off on June 26 is called “100 Days of Summer HEAT (Highway...
Tennessee Rally Highlights Sick Cold War Workers Seeking Compensation
Jun 27 2008 // Former Cold War workers and their supporters rallied in Oak Ridge, Tenn. to demand help for workers made ill from exposure to hazardous and radioactive materials in the government’s nuclear weapons facilities. The...
