All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 8 2021 // Tennessee’s attorney general on Thursday sued Food City over claims that the supermarket chain’s pharmacies intentionally profited from the opioid epidemic by unlawfully selling tens of millions of prescription...
Feb 1 2021 // Buckle, a tech-enabled financial services company, has expanded its rideshare-only auto insurance into Tennessee. Last year, the company launched the insurance offering that provides rideshare and transportation network...
Jan 27 2021 // Tennessee had 32 boating-related deaths in 2020, the most in 37 years, wildlife officials said. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency reported an increase in traffic on the state’s lakes and rivers in 2020 as...
Jan 27 2021 // Sedgwick, a provider of technology–enabled risk, benefits and integrated business services, has added Michelle Hay as global chief people officer. With more than 25 years of professional experience and a human resources...
Jan 25 2021 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) has announced multiple senior leadership role additions and staffing updates from Commissioner Carter Lawrence.Jennifer Peck has assumed the role of chief of...
Jan 20 2021 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) has located and returned more than $22.8 million to Tennesseans in combinedlife insurance benefits/annuities and monies through its mediation efforts in...
Jan 12 2021 // Reliance Partners, a privately-held commercial insurance agency for the transportation and logistics industry, has promoted Missi Shelton to vice president of Customer Service, National Accounts.Shelton will lead...
Jan 7 2021 // Sedgwick, a global provider of technology-enabled risk, benefits and integrated business solutions headquartered in Tennessee, has appointed Adam R. Fisher to a new company role as chief data officer.Fisher will lead...
Dec 22 2020 // The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that opioid producers can be sued under the state’s Drug Dealer Liability Act, allowing a lawsuit filed on behalf of children born dependent to opioids to move forward.The high...
Dec 22 2020 // Memphis-based global fiber-based packaging, pulp and paper products leader International Paper has relocated its captive insurance company from Vermont to Tennessee, according to a statement from The Tennessee Department...
Dec 4 2020 // Tennessee lawmakers who have often been critical of government restrictions to curb COVID-19’s spread are suggesting ways to give themselves the power to limit or overturn emergency orders from the governor during...
Dec 3 2020 // Workers’ compensation rates in Tennessee are expected to decrease next year after a 9.2% overall loss cost decrease was approved.Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance Commissioner Carter Lawrence approved...
Nov 19 2020 // U.S. Administrator Claims has promoted Michael Goff to senior director to lead all claim operations.In addition to this promotion, the company has also hired Greg Whalen to be director of General Liability and Property...
Nov 17 2020 // Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has selected Carter Lawrence to serve in his cabinet as commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance, effective immediately, according to a statement form the...
Nov 12 2020 // Frank Winston Crum Insurance (FWCI) has launched general liability and excess liability insurance programs in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee to coincide with its previously available worker’s...
Nov 6 2020 // Insurors of Tennessee has named Representative Ron Travis as the new CEO for the organization, effective Nov. 16, 2020.Travis (R-Dayton) is a state representative for District 31 (Bledsoe, Rhea, Sequatchie and part of...
Nov 4 2020 // A federal judge has ordered a former New York City police officer to pay $1 million to a Black woman whose house the white officer broke into during a drunken bachelor party in Nashville, Tennessee before he threatened her...
Nov 2 2020 // A Tennessee insurance commissioner who submitted his resignation last week faced an investigation over allegations of sexual misconduct by one of his department’s employees, records show.According to a Department of...
Oct 30 2020 // Federal and state authorities on Wednesday investigated a crash between a school bus carrying 24 children and a utility vehicle that killed the bus driver and a 7-year-old girl in eastern Tennessee.Eight other children...
Oct 26 2020 // Scott Benefit Services, a division of Scott Insurance, will expand its Senior Living Practice into additional markets in the Southeast region.The Senior Living Practice, led by Pim Jager, vice president and branch leader...