All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 4 2018 // Drug companies are in no rush to finance a solution to the opioid epidemic.Companies including Johnson & Johnson and McKesson Corp. are preparing to take their chances in court rather than pay billions of dollars to...
Apr 24 2018 // Reliance Partners has added John Seidl as vice president of Risk Services in its Chattanooga, Tenn., office. Seidl is a former Wisconsin State Motor Carrier Trooper and FMCSA Investigator with more than 20 years of...
Apr 12 2018 // The owners of Opry Mills are asking the Tennessee Supreme Court to reverse a ruling that reduced their 2010 flood insurance coverage from $200 to $50 million.The Tennessean reports the Simon Property Group filed an appeal...
Apr 11 2018 // Three former Tennessee insurance producers who violated provisions of Tennessee’s insurance law have been hit with civil penalties totaling $12,000 and forced to surrender or have revoked their insurance licenses,...
Apr 5 2018 // One of the lead sponsors of a medical-marijuana bill in Tennessee withdrew the measure Tuesday after telling fellow lawmakers the legislation has been so watered down that passing it would actually harm rather than help...
Apr 4 2018 // Insurance regulators in the Southeast are notifying policyholders in their states of a Texas-domiciled/Atlanta, Georgia-headquartered property/casualty insurance company that is to be liquidated after being placed in...
Apr 3 2018 // Workers’ compensation insurer Stonetrust Commercial Insurance Co. has begun writing business in Missouri and Tennessee.Stonetrust, which is headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is also writing in Louisiana,...
Mar 23 2018 // The Tennessee attorney general says lawsuits by local prosecutors over the opioid epidemic are complicating his efforts to reach a multistate settlement with drug companies. In response, the prosecutors, who represent...
Mar 22 2018 // A Tennessee insurance agency operator has been fined $187,000 in civil penalties and had his producer’s licensed revoked for defrauding clients, according to the Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance...
Mar 21 2018 // Severe storms that spawned tornadoes damaged homes and downed trees as they moved across the Southeast on Monday night.Forecasters warned that the storms could threaten more than 29 million people, raising the risk of...
Mar 20 2018 // Tennessee regulators have fined a chemical plant $25,000 for an explosion that shut down an interstate and put several schools on lockdown. WRCB-TV reported that the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
Mar 19 2018 // The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says reported DUI offenses on college campuses in the state have increased by more than 60 percent. The TBI said in a Thursday statement that its annual crime study detailing the...
Mar 12 2018 // The president of a Tennessee variety show venue says one of its workers has died after a carbon dioxide leak.The Oak Ridger reports that David Fee, president and CEO of the Smoky Mountain Opry Theater in Pigeon Forge,...
Mar 8 2018 // The Tennessee Bureau of Workers’ Compensation has begun using a new online filing system.A news release says the TNComp system lets attorneys and self-represented litigants file without printing copies or traveling...
Mar 7 2018 // Authorities say a carbon dioxide leak at a Tennessee variety show venue led to the hospitalization of three employees and the evacuation of hundreds.Pigeon Forge Fire Department Chief Tony Watson tells news outlets...
Mar 6 2018 // SouthPoint Risk Advisors, an independent insurance agency based in Nashville, has announced it acquired two Tennessee agencies at the end of 2017.On Oct. 1, SouthPoint officially acquired Consolidated Insurance Services,...
Mar 5 2018 // A former Tennessee school bus driver was found guilty Thursday of six counts of criminally negligent homicide in a wreck that killed six children.A Hamilton County Criminal Court jury convicted Johnthony Walker of lesser...
Mar 5 2018 // Insurance complaints decreased again in 2017 and remained the last of the top 10 consumer complaint categories, according to the Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance’s (TDCI) Division of Consumer...
Mar 2 2018 // Appalachian Underwriters, Inc. has added Siran Wixom as a Commercial Specialty Underwriter in its office in Oak Ridge, Tenn. She will be handling small to medium size Commercial Specialty accounts. Siran Wixom Wixom brings...
Feb 27 2018 // The death toll rose to at least five on Sunday after severe thunderstorms swept through the central U.S., spawning a tornado that flattened homes, gale force winds and widespread flooding from the Upper Midwest to...