All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 5 2024 // ERWIN, Tenn. (AP) — Rescue workers in Tennessee have recovered the body of the final person still missing after massive flooding from Hurricane Helene hit a plastics factory there.Rosa Andrade, 29, was one of six...
Oct 30 2024 // Officials in two Southeastern states have taken steps to hold insurers or recipients of insurance funds accountable after Hurricanes Helene and Milton spurred thousands of insurance claims.The Tennessee Department of...
Oct 23 2024 // Insurers often include exclusions within their liability policies to prohibit coverage for claims arising out of pollution exposure. The exact wording of the exclusion can differ significantly, but the key issue is whether...
Oct 17 2024 // NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The family of a Tennessee employee who was killed by catastrophic flooding caused by Hurricane Helene has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company he worked for, arguing that workers...
Oct 15 2024 // KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities in eastern Tennessee continued Friday to investigate a container suspected of holding large amounts of dynamite, warning residents that evacuations will likely remain in place...
Oct 3 2024 // A Tennessee plastics factory kept workers going until it was too late to evacuate before Hurricane Helene flooding swamped the building, employees have said. Now, the company is likely facing liability lawsuits and...
Sep 27 2024 // Federal safety officials said that almost four months after a fatal explosion at a steel-hardening facility in Tennessee, teams are still trying to determine the exact cause of the incident.One worker was killed in the...
Sep 17 2024 // A school district in Tennessee temporarily lost more than $3 million after a district employee was duped into sending funds to a fake vendor.The finance director for the Johnson County Board of Education, in northeast...
Sep 6 2024 // DETROIT (AP) — About 1,000 workers at a General Motors joint venture electric vehicle battery plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee, will get big pay raises now that they have joined the United Auto Workers union.GM and LG...
Sep 4 2024 // CRC Group, a wholesale specialty insurance distributor with headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama, has added new faces to its team in the Southeast. Rector Sam Rector joined the Nashville office as a broker. He has spent...
Aug 26 2024 // FCBI, a self-insurance fund founded 45 years ago to provide workers’ compensation plans to Florida citrus growers, is expanding well beyond the Sunshine State with the acquisition of MidSouth Mutual Insurance Co. in...
Aug 23 2024 // OneDigital, an insurance brokerage, financial services and human resources firm based in Atlanta, has acquired Elite Insurance Solutions, a property-casualty insurance agency in Franklin, Tennessee, the company announced...
Aug 20 2024 // Scott Bloomquist, a dirt track race car driver who was known for his bravado and for being one of the sport’s best, died Friday in a plane crash on his family’s farm in Mooresburg, Tennessee, friends and local...
Aug 2 2024 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance so far this year has secured more than $9.5 million for policyholders whose insurance claims had been denied, the department announced this week. The payments, mostly from...
Jul 31 2024 // PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (AP) — Strong thunderstorms brought flash flooding to Dolly Parton’s Dollywood in east Tennessee.Park workers and the Pigeon Forge police and fire departments directed guests to safety on Sunday...
Jul 12 2024 // MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A sitting Tennessee sheriff pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he illegally profited from the work of jail inmates under his supervision and housed dozens of them in a home outside of the...
Jul 10 2024 // Hub International Ltd., the global insurance brokerage and financial services firm, has expanded again with the acquisition of Wyatt Insurance Services in Tennessee. With offices in Knoxville and Clarksville, Wyatt is an...
Jun 28 2024 // MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee attorney general’s office said Tuesday that it has turned over its investigation into the failed sale of Elvis Presley’s home Graceland at a foreclosure auction to federal...
Jun 18 2024 // A fire at country music star Carrie Underwood’s Nashville-area home was limited to the garage, thanks in part to a 10,000-gallon water tank on the property.USA Today and local news outlets reported that an...
Jun 5 2024 // State and federal safety officials are investigating a fatal explosion and fire at a Chattanooga, Tennessee, steel-hardening facility.The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board said it had sent a team to the...