All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 2 2020 // Appalachian Underwriters, Inc. (AUI) has promoted three in-house Marketing team members Marketing representatives in its Oak Ridge, Tenn. Headquarters. The three members will service agents in their specific...
Oct 1 2020 // Tennessee has given more than $170 million in federal relief funds to businesses struggling to survive during the coronavirus pandemic, but top state officials aren’t saying exactly who is getting the...
Sep 25 2020 // A pilot’s inability to maintain proper airspeed and the flight crew’s decision to continue an unstable approach and landing likely caused the crash of a small plane carrying race car driver Dale Earnhardt Jr....
Sep 11 2020 // Brown & Brown of Tennessee, Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown, Inc., has acquired substantially all of the assets of the Frank E. Neal & Co. Agency, according to an announcement from J. Scott Penny, chief...
Sep 3 2020 // The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has concluded that a Tennessee Valley Authority executive retaliated against a safety whistleblower.Vice President Joseph Shea “played a significant role” in the 2018...
Sep 3 2020 // Nearly 1,000 inmates at a Tennessee prison have tested positive for COVID-19, corrections officials said Monday.Officials tested 1,410 inmates at South Central Correctional Facility late last week after several inmates and...
Sep 2 2020 // Columbus, Ohio-based Root Inc., the parent company of Root Insurance, has added Julie Mix McPeak, who formerly served as insurance commissioner in both Kentucky and Tennesse, as its senior deputy general counsel, effective...
Aug 31 2020 // Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has once again extended the state of emergency until the end of September.Lee, a Republican, initially imposed the state of emergency on March 12 in order to free up funding and relax rules...
Aug 25 2020 // The wholly-owned subsidiary of Universal Insurance Holdings, Inc.’s Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Co. (Universal Property), has received a certificate of authority in Tennessee, approving Universal...
Aug 20 2020 // Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed into law sweeping protections for businesses, schools and nursing homes against coronavirus lawsuits.Lee on Monday touted the legislation as “historic” and argued the law...
Aug 6 2020 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) has hired Joshua Clark joins TDCI as the new director of Business Development for the Insurance Division.As the director of Business Development for the Insurance...
Aug 5 2020 // Gov. Bill Lee on Monday announced he’s calling lawmakers back to the Capitol to address legislation that would provide health care providers, schools and businesses broad protections against coronavirus lawsuits.Lee...
Jul 27 2020 // Coronavirus cases at an East Tennessee nursing home have nearly doubled in less than a week, officials said.The Christian Care Center in Bristol reported 92 cases on Wednesday, up from 51 cases on Friday, Director Jennifer...
Jul 24 2020 // Baton Rouge, La.-based workers’ compensation insurance carrier, LUBA Workers’ Comp, has expanded its coverage into Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Alabama.Founded in 1991, the company currently writes workers’...
Jul 22 2020 // The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers has added Christian Patino to the company as a risk advisor in its Transportation Practice Group. Patino has experience in the transportation and trucking niche, formerly working with...
Jul 16 2020 // The city of Chattanooga plans to keep testing local wastewater for the prevalence of COVID-19 into 2021 after a study in May that showed thousands more cases of the virus than what was reported by local health officials,...
Jul 8 2020 // Specialty Program Group LLC (SPG), an operator of specialty insurance brokerages and underwriting facilities, has acquired Avant, LLC. (Avant), a transportation program administrator and wholesale brokerage firm, with...
Jul 7 2020 // Just a few weeks ago, Tennessee looked like a sure bet to become the latest state to protect businesses and other organizations from lawsuits by people impacted by the coronavirus in the push to reopen the economy....
Jul 7 2020 // Sunstar Insurance Group, LLC has completed a majority recapitalization with BBH Capital Partners (BBHCP), the private equity strategy of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (BBH). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed....
Jul 2 2020 // Propel Insurance, a retail insurance agency and a portfolio company of Flexpoint Ford, has acquired HealthCare Services (HCS), a risk management and insurance consulting firm based in Knoxville, Tenn., that specializes in...