All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 29 2013 // More than a year after a routine steroid injection turned into a painful fungal infection that nearly killed her, Marjorie Norwood is still suffering physically and emotionally. She also carries a huge stress: the hospital...
Oct 21 2013 // Insurance was a great training ground for now State Sen. Bill Ketron, who has been a member of the Tennessee Senate since 2002 while also serving as president of his own independent agency founded by his late father.Ketron...
Oct 18 2013 // When construction slowed during the recession, some companies hired workers and wrongly designated them as independent contractors to avoid paying insurance, taxes, fair wages and overtime.Danny Odom, chief operating...
Oct 15 2013 // Gary Vaughn was mentally ill and homeless, but neighbors on Humber Street in South Memphis had known him for years and took care of him. On the evening of Sept. 28, they saw smoke and flames erupting from the abandoned...
Oct 10 2013 // A federal judge has blocked the state of Tennessee from enforcing emergency rules for people who advise others about the new health insurance exchange.The Tennessean reported that U.S. District Judge Todd Campbell issued a...
Oct 2 2013 // Online insurance agency Answer Financial Inc. is relocating its main Tennessee call center to West Knoxville. The office is slated to open next week.The agency is celebrating its new state-of-the-art sales center with a...
Oct 2 2013 // A judge refused to block emergency rules covering people who dispense advice on the new health insurance exchange in Tennessee that launched Tuesday.Chancellor Russell T. Perkins ruled Monday evening that the state’s...
Sep 12 2013 // Insurance was a great training ground for now State Sen. Bill Ketron, who has been a member of the Tennessee Senate since 2002 while also serving as president of his own independent agency founded by his late father.Ketron...
Sep 10 2013 // San Diego, CA, 9/10/13 – Atlas General Insurance Services, LLC, a national multi-line program manager, is pleased to announce the opening of a dedicated marketing office located in Knoxville, Tenn. The new office will be...
Sep 6 2013 // The Tennessee Supreme Court has reinstated a $43.8 million verdict for a Memphis child who was paralyzed in an auto accident.According to court records, Billy Meals was 6 years old on Jan. 18, 2002. He was riding in the...
Sep 6 2013 // Three former college football players are suing the NCAA, saying it failed to educate them about the risks of concussions and did not do enough to prevent, diagnose and treat brain injuries.Chris Walker and Ben Martin, who...
Aug 29 2013 // Keystone Insurers Group said Covington, Tenn.-based agency Jamieson & Fisher Inc. has become its 21st franchise partner in the state. The announcement was made by Jamieson & Fisher President Ed Kaiser and Keystone...
Aug 12 2013 // Unusually heavy summer rainfalls in Tennessee have given the agencies involved in flood control and emergency management a chance to show that they have learned to cooperate after the disastrous missteps of...
Jul 29 2013 // Victims in Tennessee of a deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak won the right to pursue a new avenue of litigation against healthcare facilities and doctors there, after a ruling by a U.S. bankruptcy judge this week.Tennessee...
Jul 23 2013 // This is why they call it a flash flood.A rainy night in South Pittsburg, Tenn., on July 10 quickly turned into something legendary. Relentless rains spawned a newborn river that decided to make its way right through...
Jul 22 2013 // A man who used a Memphis fitness club linked to cases of Legionnaires’ disease has filed a $2 million lawsuit.The Commercial Appeal reported attorney Sadler Bailey filed the negligence suit in Shelby County Circuit...
Jul 19 2013 // The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development is holding a series of 14 seminars across the state to explain the Workers’ Compensation Reform Act of 2013.The new law removes injured workers’...
Jul 2 2013 // Republican Gov. Bill Haslam has named Abbie Hudgens as the head of the state’s new Workers’ Compensation Division. Hudgens, who had already been focusing on injured workers issues within the state Department of...
Jun 21 2013 // Changes to the state’s workers’ compensation system is the focus of the Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference this week.The three-day conference began on Wednesday at the Nashville...
Jun 18 2013 // With the weather reaching sweltering temperatures this summer, it is important to have a working, reliable air conditioning unit. But scam artists often use the rise in temperatures to take advantage of consumers by...