All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 25 2015 // Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) Deputy Commissioner Chlora Lindley-Myers was awarded the Robert Dineen Award for Outstanding Service and Contribution to the State Regulation of Insurance. Myers...
Nov 24 2015 // Other officers elected are President-Elect: Kentucky Insurance Commissioner Sharon P. Clark; Vice President: Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Ted Nickel; and Secretary-Treasurer: Tennessee Insurance Commissioner Julie Mix...
Nov 23 2015 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) have elected 2016 officers who will will assume their duties on Jan. 1, 2016. President: Missouri Insurance Director John M. Huff President-Elect:...
Nov 22 2015 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance (TDCI) announced disciplinary actions taken against three former Tennessee agents for misappropriation, failure to report administrative actions, and felony convictions...
Oct 28 2015 // Albert Hudson worries about the water coming from the well on his property near the Tennessee Valley Authority’s coal-fired power plant in Gallatin, Tenn.Hudson received a letter recently from the Tennessee...
Oct 19 2015 // Florida’s Triton Insurance Group, a provider of home, auto, business, motorcycle, umbrella, boat and workers’ compensation insurance, has appointed Cole Millican as its newest agent. Millican has become a top...
Oct 19 2015 // The Tennessee Workers Compensation Insurance Plan (TWCIP) reinsurance mechanism has been dissolved as part of the state’s transition to the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) as the new residual...
Oct 15 2015 // A Loudon County, Tennessee, woman is suing the city of Knoxville over its decision to ban guns at Chilhowee Park during last month’s Tennessee Valley Fair.The Knoxville News Sentinel reports Pandora Vreeland claims...
Oct 14 2015 // This article was published by ProPublica and NPR and is reprinted with permission.Standing before a giant map in his Dallas office, Bill Minick doesn’t seem like anyone’s idea of a bomb thrower. But backed by...
Oct 9 2015 // The Tennessee Workers Compensation Insurance Plan (TWCIP) reinsurance mechanism has been dissolved as part of the state’s transition to the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) as the new residual...
Oct 5 2015 // Willis North America, a unit of Willis Group Holdings plc, has appointed of Ken Perry as vice president of the Human Capital Practice, Willis of Tennessee, effective immediately.Based in Knoxville, Perry will be...
Oct 2 2015 // Inside Volkswagen’s only U.S. assembly plant there’s little hint of the diesel emissions cheating scandal embroiling the German automaker around the world. Sparks fly off robotic welding arms, new versions of...
Oct 2 2015 // Statistics from the Tennessee Department of Health revealed that 1,263 Tennesseans died in 2014 from opioid overdoses despite measures designed to stop the addiction.In 2014, the state saw 97 more deaths caused by opioid...
Sep 24 2015 // The wife of a man who died in custody at the Kingsport City Jail has filed a $1 million wrongful death suit.WJHL-TV reports Benjamin Honaker was arrested on Sept. 19, 2014, following a car crash. Officers said Honaker had...
Sep 21 2015 // The Tennessee Supreme Court affirmed a lower court’s decision that a chiropractic patient’s assignment of benefits was not an effective assignment of his insurance proceeds from a third party’s insurance...
Sep 11 2015 // The Tennessee Supreme Court is hearing two cases that could have justices deciding how many times drivers have to cross a painted line on the road before officers can pull them over.The two driving under the influence...
Sep 7 2015 // The Tennessee Highway Patrol says fewer traffic-related deaths are being reported on roadways so far this year.WBIR-TV reports that as of Aug. 11, there had been 50 fewer deaths reported than last year in the same time...
Sep 3 2015 // The Tennessee Supreme Court has affirmed a Court of Appeals decision that a chiropractic patient’s assignment of benefits was not an effective assignment of his rights to insurance proceeds from a third party’s...
Aug 21 2015 // A Middle Tennessee teen is alive, thanks to Siri.Eighteen-year-old Sam Ray of Waterhill, Tennessee, says the voice recognition service on his iPhone — famously named Siri — called emergency dispatchers after...
Aug 17 2015 // The Tennessee Highway Patrol says fewer traffic-related deaths are being reported on roadways so far this year.WBIR-TV reports that that as of Aug. 11, there had been 50 fewer deaths than reported last year in the same...