All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 20 2018 // MAPFRE Insurance, which last year decided to exit five states and focus on 11, is turning over its personal lines business in three of the five states it is leaving to Safeco Insurance, a Liberty Mutual unit.MAPFRE has...
Feb 16 2018 // Eighteen states, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, national coal industry interests and more than a dozen other groups are urging an appeals court to overturn a coal ash cleanup order at a federal utility’s Tennessee...
Feb 15 2018 // Insurance complaints decreased again in 2017 and remained last of the top 10 consumer complaint categories, according to the Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance’s (TDCI) Division of Consumer Affairs.The...
Feb 14 2018 // Heavy rains flooded areas and caused mudslides in parts of Appalachia, forcing dozens of people out of their homes and into shelters as the high water closed roads and schools.Kentucky Emergency Management spokeswoman...
Feb 9 2018 // NSM Insurance Group, the national leader of industry-specific insurance program administration, announced Tuesday that it has acquired TranSpec, a highly specialized transportation insurance broker located in...
Feb 5 2018 // A guardrail manufacturer created a product whose design flaws led to one woman’s death and another’s permanent disfigurement, according to two lawsuits filed Jan. 31.The lawsuits filed in South Carolina and...
Feb 5 2018 // The latest tally of January fire fatalities has the Tennessee State Fire Marshal’s Office (SFMO) urgently renewing its call that residents turn their focus to fire prevention during the high-risk winter months.SFMO...
Feb 5 2018 // The state of Tennessee saw domestic captive insurance companies exceed $1 billion in written premiums in 2017 for the first time – a milestone for Tennessee’s burgeoning captive insurance marketplace.In...
Feb 1 2018 // Two people in Italy and five U.S. residents have been charged in a fraud and drug trafficking conspiracy to distribute opioids in Florida and Tennessee, leading to hundreds of deaths, federal prosecutors said last...
Jan 24 2018 // Gov. Bill Haslam touted a $30 million plan Monday that focuses on prevention, treatment and law enforcement to attack an opioid epidemic that kills at least three people a day in Tennessee.The Republican governor released...
Jan 22 2018 // Two Republican lawmakers have introduced legislation to make medical marijuana legal in Tennessee, but only in oil-based products.Sen. Steve Dickerson of Nashville and Rep. Jeremy Faison of Cosby announced the bill’s...
Jan 19 2018 // The state of Tennessee saw domestic captive insurance companies exceed $1 billion in written premiums in 2017 for the first time – a milestone for Tennessee’s burgeoning captive insurance marketplace.In addition to...
Jan 16 2018 // James A. Jones saw enough cars stranded along the icy highway to know it was time to pull over as a winter storm blasted parts of Tennessee and Kentucky with sleet, freezing rain and snow Friday.Jones counted 25 cars stuck...
Jan 8 2018 // The company in a deadly November 2016 school bus crash in Tennessee has settled a lawsuit for $323,000 on behalf of a 9-year-old boy injured in the wreck. According to the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Durham School...
Jan 2 2018 // School bus drivers must be at least 25 years old in Tennessee starting New Year’s Day under one of 16 new state laws taking effect.Lawmakers made the change in reaction to a November 2016 school bus crash that killed...
Dec 22 2017 // The driver in a Tennessee school bus crash that killed six elementary school students took a cell phone call at the time of the crash, a prosecutor said Tuesday.According to the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Hamilton...
Dec 22 2017 // Tennessee consumers received $9.4 million in restitution and the recovery of life insurance benefits in 2017, according to the Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance’s (TDCI) Consumer Insurance Services...
Dec 18 2017 // A former deputy commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance has died in a car crash. Media outlets report that Bill Giannini, who also was a former chairman of the Shelby County Election Commission...
Dec 15 2017 // Officials say 17 workers at a Tennessee plant who complained of headaches and nausea are getting medical treatment. McMinn County Mayor John Gentry said the “exposure” incident happened Wednesday morning at the...
Dec 15 2017 // A settlement has been reached in a federal lawsuit over $750,000 in unpaid utility bills at a shuttered Tennessee glass plant.The Kingsport Times News reports insurer North American Specialty sued Heritage Glass and its...