All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 17 2014 // Tennessee has received a $499,000 federal grant for efforts to stop worker misclassification. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the money will help Tennessee’s unemployment insurance tax programs identify...
Sep 4 2014 // Bradshaw & Company Insurors of Dyersburg is Keystone Insurers Group’s newest franchise partner in Tennessee. The agency offers auto, home, business, farm, life and health insurance. Bradshaw & Co. was...
Aug 26 2014 // Tennessee’s Republican state senator who challenged scandal-plagued U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais conceded his 38-vote primary loss to the incumbent on Monday, saying he decided not to challenge the results.Jim Tracy...
Aug 19 2014 // The husband of a Tennessee pilot killed when a UPS cargo jet crashed in Alabama has filed suit against the company that made warning equipment used in the aircraft.Bret Tucker Fanning is seeking $2 million in his federal...
Aug 19 2014 // Chinese hackers stole social security numbers, names and addresses from 4.5 million patients of Community Health Systems Inc., the second-biggest for-profit U.S. hospital chain, according to the company.The attacks...
Aug 15 2014 // Things have changed a bit for the surplus lines industry since the Non-admitted and Reinsurance Reform Act, (NRRA) part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform legislation, passed in 2010.The NRRA’s implementation has...
Aug 5 2014 // The nation’s largest public utility has agreed to pay $27.8 million to settle claims from Tennessee property owners who suffered damages from a huge spill of toxin-laden coal ash sludge.The 2008 spill happened when a...
Aug 4 2014 // When neighbors in Kingsport, Tennessee went to help a man whose home bore the brunt of a tornado, they made a discovery police say couldn’t have been caused by the wind.Police spokesman Thomas Patton told WBIR-TV in...
Jul 29 2014 // Powerful storms that raked across several states in the eastern U.S. on Sunday destroyed at least 10 homes in Tennessee, but there were no immediate reports of any deaths or injuries, authorities said.Spokeswoman Gina...
Jul 21 2014 // Things have changed a bit for the surplus lines industry since the Non-admitted and Reinsurance Reform Act, (NRRA) part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform legislation, passed in 2010.The NRRA’s implementation has...
Jul 21 2014 // A litigation funding firm said it is leaving Tennessee as the state now regulates their business of loaning money to consumers bringing lawsuits.Illinois-based Oasis Legal Finance, one of the country’s largest...
Jul 7 2014 // Oklahoma and Kansas may have the reputations as tornado hot spots, but Florida and the rest of the Southeast are far more vulnerable to killer twisters, a new analysis shows.Florida leads the country in deaths calculated...
Jul 3 2014 // A litigation funding firm said it is leaving Tennessee as the state now requires firms like his to register and regulates their business of loaning money to consumers bringing lawsuits.Illinois-based Oasis Legal Finance,...
Jun 19 2014 // A study has found that the number of speeding motorists increased immediately following a decision to disable traffic cameras in Oak Ridge.The study by Redflex Traffic Systems Inc. was done at the city’s request...
Jun 18 2014 // A newspaper investigation has found that Tennessee has a loophole in its drunken driving law.The Commercial Appeal reported that its analysis found that a person could potentially spend more time in jail for driving drunk...
Jun 6 2014 // The Tennessee Department of Labor has been expanding efforts to uncover employer fraud within the construction industry.The efforts, aided by recent legislation, will help identify employers who are paying workers under...
Jun 5 2014 // Gov. Bill Haslam and Commissioner of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Douglas Varney this week unveiled a multi-year plan to fight prescription drug abuse in Tennessee.The state estimates that in the past year,...
Jun 5 2014 // Standard & Poor’s suffered a defeat on Tuesday in litigation accusing it of issuing misleading credit ratings prior to the 2008 financial crisis, as a federal judge ruled that lawsuits by 16 U.S. states and...
Jun 4 2014 // The coordinated campaign of three incumbent Tennessee Supreme Court justices announced this week that it has raised $600,000 for the effort to keep them on the bench for eight more years.The effort called Keep Tennessee...
Jun 2 2014 // A Tennessee adjuster sued by Nationwide Insurance for alleged trademark infringement because he used the company’s slogan, On Your Side, in his firm’s name and marketing, is fighting back in court and on the...