All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 13 2016 // A bankrupt Brentwood, Tenn., company is facing a federal lawsuit over conditions at six Tennessee nursing homes.WPLN-FM reports prosecutors accuse Vanguard Healthcare LLC of earning big profits while providing...
Sep 12 2016 // Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam’s administration is looking to turn back the clock on an underage drunken driving law that threatened to cost Tennessee $60 million in federal road money.The law that went into effect in...
Sep 8 2016 // Eight people were taken to hospitals after a ride shut down at the Delta Fair in Memphis on Saturday.Riders were enjoying the Moonraker, which spins around an axis and tilts up and down on an angle, when the ride’s...
Sep 7 2016 // The wife of a Tennessee man who died during a scuba dive in the Florida Panhandle is suing the dive shop.The News Herald reports the lawsuit filed Aug. 30 in Panama City claims negligence against Coast Adventures LLC,...
Aug 30 2016 // The head of the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration says a spike in on-the-job fatalities last month is “alarming.”TOSHA administrator Steve Hawkins tells WPLN-FM four of the 10 deaths in...
Aug 29 2016 // Starr Companies has added Michael Ponder as the branch manager for its newly-opened Nashville office. He will be responsible for strategic growth, financial performance as well as broker and client relationships within...
Aug 24 2016 // In some parts of the U.S., the thrill rides that hurl kids upside down, whirl them around or send them shooting down slides are checked out by state inspectors before customers climb on. But in other places, they are not...
Aug 23 2016 // The National Association of State Fire Marshals (NASFM) elected Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) Deputy Commissioner Gary West as secretary-treasurer during its annual membership meeting in...
Aug 22 2016 // The administrator of Tennessee’s Bureau of Workers’ Compensation has been named president of the Southern Association of Workers’ Compensation Administrators. Abbie Hudgens has been administrator of the...
Aug 22 2016 // Brentwood Services Administrators (BSA), headquartered in Brentwood, Tenn., has hired Stephanie Bryant as senior claim representative in the Brentwood office. The company also announced it has promoted LaTronya Roberts on...
Aug 22 2016 // Star Trek Tragedy“In spite of our unbelievable grief, we decided to come here to prevent other families from the same tragedy.” — Victor Yelchin, father of “Star Trek” movie actor Anton...
Aug 17 2016 // Regions Financial, headquartered in Memphis, Tenn., has named Rick Ulmer president and CEO of Regions Insurance Group, Inc. with responsibility for Regions Insurance operations in 10 states. Regions Insurance Group is a...
Aug 16 2016 // An east Tennessee community is urging the proper storage and disposal of oil-soaked rags following the fourth fire involving spontaneous combustion in the past four years.The city of Oak Ridge says in a news release that...
Aug 15 2016 // Tennessee’s state veterinarian office is investigating an outbreak of a disease involving 17 horses in Middle Tennessee.The Agriculture Department said in a news release that a group of racing quarter horses tested...
Aug 15 2016 // Worn out rivet fasteners on a Ferris wheel are being blamed for an overturned gondola at an eastern Tennessee fair that sent three girls plummeting more than 30 feet to the ground.The Tennessee Department of Labor and...
Aug 11 2016 // One of three girls who fell from a Ferris wheel at a county fair in Tennessee suffered a traumatic brain injury and remained in critical condition Tuesday, a doctor said.Dr. Bracken Burns, director of trauma services for...
Aug 8 2016 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance (TDCI) has issued a Consent Order against YourPeople, Inc., (DBA Zenefits FTW Insurance Services) and ordered the California-based company to pay a civil monetary penalty...
Aug 5 2016 // The Tennessee Department of Insurance’s (TDCI) Consumer Insurance Services Section returned $1,577,917.59 to Tennessee consumers through the first half of 2016. The restitution efforts were the result of TDCI...
Jul 29 2016 // The Crichton Group, an independent insurance agency in Middle Tennessee, has promoted industry veteran Dan Hite to the position of partner and vice president. Previously, Hite served as commercial insurance advisor for the...
Jul 26 2016 // Zenefits reached its first settlement with a state government over its use of unlicensed health insurance brokers, an issue that prompted investigations in at least three other states and led its founding chief executive...