All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 23 2009 // Federal authorities say two dozen people arrested earlier this year were part of a sophisticated car theft ring that targeted vehicles at University of Tennessee football home games.Unsealed federal documents examined by...
Sep 21 2009 // AmWINS/Managing AgencyCharlotte, North Carolina-based national wholesale insurance broker AmWINS Group, Inc. has acquired The Managing Agency Group- Employee Benefits, a division of insurance broker Willis HRH. MAG-EB is a...
Sep 21 2009 // Phyllis Young and her co-worker and friend, Sarah Bales, won the hula-hoop contest and the balloon toss, making them the favorites to also win the three-legged sack race.Young and Bales didn’t win the sack race...
Sep 9 2009 // Rick Whitten has been promoted to vice president of the Client Services Division with Brentwood Services Administrators in Brentwood, Tennessee. Whitten has been assistant vice president of Loss Control Services, based in...
Sep 9 2009 // A person does not have to show actual damages to be able to sue a check verification firm for mistakenly reporting information affecting consumer credit files, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth District...
Aug 31 2009 // The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that the state does not recognize an exception to the economic loss doctrine that generally bars damages if a product defect causes only economic loss and not any personal or...
Aug 31 2009 // Florida-based insurance agency Brown & Brown has acquired the group employee benefits division of Roussel & Associates of Brentwood, Tennessee. The group employee benefits division, which has annualized revenues...
Aug 27 2009 // First Horizon Insurance Group, Inc., a subsidiary of First Tennessee Bank, the principal subsidiary of First Horizon National Corp., reports it has agreed to acquire the insurance business of Sandlin Insurance Agency...
Aug 25 2009 // Oak Ridge, Tennessee-based Appalachian Underwriters Inc. (AUI) has formed a new franchise and affinity division, which will be led by Steve Shelton. This new division will work with franchisors, associations and affinity...
Aug 4 2009 // Kentucky National Insurance Co., a Lexington-based property/ casualty insurance company, began offering insurance to customers in Tennessee June 1, 2009. Kentucky National is offering auto, homeowners, boat, renters,...
Aug 3 2009 // The implementation of a medical fee schedule in Tennessee after reforms passed in 2004 has helped save employers $1,300 per workers’ compensation case, according to a research group.A study by the Workers...
Jul 31 2009 // A federal jury has ruled against a white woman who claims she was harassed for defending black co-workers at a Whirlpool factory in La Vergne.Treva Nickens said the harassment started when she agreed to testify for black...
Jul 29 2009 // The Tennessee Valley Authority failed for more than 20 years to heed warnings that might have prevented a massive coal ash spill in Tennessee, then allowed its lawyers to stifle a $3 million study into the disaster’s...
Jul 27 2009 // With Congress debating how to reform Athe nation’s health care system, a new survey report reveals that 79 percent of Tennessee’s small business owners, including the self-employed, are struggling to afford...
Jul 20 2009 // Gov. Phil Bredesen has signed a measure enacting a minimum residential building code across Tennessee. The bill took effect July 1. Under the law, local governments in the 60 counties that don’t have building codes...
Jul 20 2009 // Newly signed legislation in Tennessee will provide venture money for new companies with high growth potential, such as those involved in biotechnology and other innovations.The money will come from insurance companies that...
Jul 16 2009 // The implementation of a medical fee schedule in Tennessee after reforms passed in 2004 has helped save employers $1,300 per workers’ compensation case, according to a study by a research group.The study by he Workers...
Jun 30 2009 // Four jurors wrote affidavits claiming they felt coerced by the court to rule against a doctor who lost a $6.12 million medical malpractice case, a The Chattanooga Times Free Press reported.The affidavits came in the case...
Jun 5 2009 // The Tennessee Senate has passed legislation aimed at making it a crime for adults to host parties where alcohol is available to underage drinkers. The measure sponsored by Republican Sen. Jim Tracy of Shelbyville was...
May 28 2009 // The government has paid out more than $1 billion in claims to 9,134 Tennesseans made ill from working in the nuclear weapons facilities at Oak Ridge during the Cold War.The Labor Department announced the latest tally,...