All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 16 2017 // A federal judge in Alabama is refusing to dismiss an environmental group’s lawsuit over alleged chemical contamination in the Tennessee River.The Decatur Daily reports U.S. District Judge Abdul Kallon won’t...
Feb 13 2017 // Tennessee’s captive insurance market saw a record annual total of 104 risk bearing entities (RBEs) added in 2016, according to data released by the Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI).The new...
Feb 10 2017 // Farris Evans Insurance Agency (FEIA) of Memphis, Tenn., has restructured the ownership of the privately held firm and promoted Vice President Chadwick Willoughby, now a major equity holder of the company, to president.The...
Feb 9 2017 // Law enforcement officers in Tennessee plan to follow and ride Hamilton County school buses at random after a bus crash killed six students in November.The Times Free Press says the Tennessee Highway Patrol, Hamilton County...
Feb 7 2017 // The Tennessee Valley Authority finished a four-day trial Thursday in which environmental groups accuse the utility’s power plant outside Nashville, Tennessee, of illegally polluting the Cumberland River with coal...
Feb 6 2017 // Tennessee state officials said last month that insurance claims have topped $842 million in the deadly eastern Tennessee wildfires that burned thousands of buildings.The Knoxville News Sentinel reported the number,...
Jan 24 2017 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) has taken disciplinary actions including fines totaling more than $77,000, license revocation and other punishments against five Tennessee insurance licensees for...
Jan 23 2017 // Property and casualty veteran Mark LaBour has joined Alliant’s growing Florida practice. As vice president within the company’s Alliant Americas division, LaBour will deploy targeted risk management and...
Jan 23 2017 // It is fair to say 2016 was the year of the catastrophe in the Southeast. Tornadoes, drought, floods, hurricanes and wildfires impacted virtually every state in the region.For the insurance industry, these events made for a...
Jan 23 2017 // State officials say insurance claims have topped $842 million in the deadly eastern Tennessee wildfires that burned thousands of buildings.The Knoxville News Sentinel reported the number, provided the Tennessee Department...
Jan 19 2017 // Authorities are forming a team to investigate the massive fires that tore through a Tennessee tourist city late last year, killing 14 people.The team will be made up of representatives from the Park Service, the U.S....
Jan 11 2017 // No students were injured when a Tennessee school bus burst into flames shortly after its driver noticed smoke and unloaded 29 children on board.Alcoa City Schools Director Brian Bell says that at about 7 a.m. Monday, the...
Jan 11 2017 // The Crichton Group of Tennessee has acquired RLH Agency, LLC, a long-standing Middle Tennessee insurance agency focused on the construction industry. Robert L. Harris, insurance industry veteran and founder of RLH Agency,...
Jan 11 2017 // It is fair to say 2016 was the year of the catastrophe in the Southeast. Tornadoes, drought, floods, hurricanes, and wildfires impacted virtually every state in the region.For the insurance industry, these events made for...
Jan 9 2017 // Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) Commissioner Julie Mix McPeak will serve in 2017 as president-elect of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), the nation’s insurance...
Dec 21 2016 // The 24-year-old driver in a Tennessee school bus crash that killed six children was speeding about 20 miles per hour over the 30 mile-per-hour limit, police testified Dec. 14, drawing tears from their families in...
Dec 21 2016 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance (TDCI) has joined the Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MMoU), an international supervisory cooperation and information exchange agreement. The MMoU is part of the...
Dec 20 2016 // Dolly Parton says a star-studded telethon for those affected by recent wildfires in her native Tennessee has brought in about $9 million. Parton headlined the event on Dec. 13 that was broadcast on several cable networks...
Dec 19 2016 // Brentwood Services Administrators Inc. (BSA), headquartered in Brentwood, Tenn., has promoted Nick Saldana to the position of claim representative II in its Tennessee Claims Department, according to Jeff Pettus, president...
Dec 16 2016 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) elected 2017 officers as follows: President: Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Ted Nickel. Nickel was appointed by Governor Scott Walker as Commissioner...