All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 16 2019 // A truck hauling about 35,000 pounds (15,876 kilograms) of M&M candies overturned on a Tennessee highway Friday morning, a Department of Transportation official confirmed. The semitrailer crashed on Interstate 40 near...
Dec 13 2019 // Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) Commissioner Hodgen Mainda has named two longtime Tennessee captive insurance experts to new roles in the department.Michael Corbett has been named to the newly...
Dec 10 2019 // Federal regulators have fined the nation’s largest public utility $145,000 for submitting incomplete and inaccurate information on a backup system at its Watts Bar Nuclear Plant.The Nuclear Regulatory Commission...
Nov 13 2019 // Officials say the private information of nearly 44,000 TennCare members may have been stolen during a breach of the email system of a vendor for the state’s Medicaid agency.The Tennessean reports that Magellan Health...
Nov 8 2019 // A former insurance agent, political campaign treasurer and Tennessee Republican Party committeewoman, is accused of stealing from her father’s campaign and pocketing insurance money from policyholders who used her...
Nov 5 2019 // AccuRisk Solutions LLC has completed its acquisition of M-D Underwriting Services, Inc. (MDU), a Franklin, Tenn.-based medical stop loss MGU. AccuRisk CEO Dan Boisvert said the company will add MDU President and Cathy...
Nov 4 2019 // Officials say severe storms that moved through Tennessee on Halloween knocking down trees and power lines led to the death of a man. The Knoxville Police Department tweeted on Friday that 79-year-old George Walker was...
Oct 28 2019 // What’s left of Tropical Storm Olga was causing soggy conditions in Mississippi and Alabama on Saturday and dozens of flights were canceled or delayed at New Orleans’ main airport after two power outages.There...
Oct 17 2019 // Tennessee health officials say they have received 49 cases of serious lung injury in people who use electronic cigarettes or other vaping devices.The Department of Health said Monday that no single product has been linked...
Oct 16 2019 // Kat Merryfield was ready to share her farm-to-home oils, chocolates and creams with the rest of the country. But banks and credit card processors weren’t ready to work with her small business.“We started out...
Oct 11 2019 // Federal authorities are investigating a fire that was intentionally set at a vacant church in Memphis, Tennessee.Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives spokesman Michael Knight says the blaze at First Church...
Sep 26 2019 // ClearPath Mutual Insurance Co. has appointed Kim Sellers as the company’s first production underwriter. Sellers will be based out of Burns, Tenn., and will handle agents in Kentucky and Tennessee.As production...
Sep 23 2019 // The Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled that a lawsuit against opioid makers can move forward, overturning a lower court that had dismissed the claims.At issue is whether Tennessee’s Drug Dealer Liability Act...
Sep 23 2019 // Some residents living near a coal-fired power plant in Tennessee have asked the state to investigate unidentified particles they say are coating their homes.The Knoxville News Sentinel reports the fine particles have...
Sep 16 2019 // Hodgen Mainda has been appointed commissioner of Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance by Governor Bill Lee, effective Oct. 1, 2019.“Hodgen joins my cabinet after an outstanding career as a community...
Sep 6 2019 // Hodgen Mainda has been appointed commissioner of Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance by Governor Bill Lee, effective Oct. 1, 2019.“Hodgen joins my cabinet after an outstanding career as a community...
Aug 30 2019 // The Tennessee Valley Authority, long respected for providing good jobs and cheap electricity, is facing a growing backlash over its handling of a massive coal ash spill a decade ago, with potentially serious consequences...
Aug 29 2019 // Officials in Chattanooga say a truck and crane went to the bottom of the Tennessee River when the barge they were sitting on collapsed. News outlets report the crane was mounted on the truck that fell into the river when...
Aug 27 2019 // The mother of a man killed in a shooting at a Tennessee Waffle House is now suing the medical center that treated him. The Tennessean reports the lawsuit filed last week by Shaundelle Brooks says two Vanderbilt University...
Aug 20 2019 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired Tennessee-based Mackie Financial Group LLC (MFG). The transaction became effective August 1, 2019.MFG is a full-service agency primarily providing insurance for employee benefits,...