All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 7 2022 // The National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday renewed its call for seat belts on school buses after completing an investigation of a 2020 crash in Tennessee that killed the driver and a 7-year-old girl.The...
Nov 2 2022 // Marsh McLennan Agency, a subsidiary of the global insurance broker Marsh, has acquired Bradley Insurance Agency, a commercial brokerage in Knoxville, Tennessee.The Bradley agency was founded in 1972 by Steve Bradley and...
Oct 25 2022 // A skydiver has died after his hard landing from a pregame jump at a Tennessee high school football stadium on Friday, officials said.In a statement, Washington County Schools Superintendent Jerry Boyd said the diver jumped...
Oct 25 2022 // A Memphis plaintiffs’ attorney who made his living suing auto insurance carriers must spend two-and-a-half years behind bars for forging clients’ names on multiple settlement checks and depositing them into his...
Oct 24 2022 // Extreme rainfall events, and the dangerous floods that follow them, are happening more often in Tennessee. This risk grows as the climate warms.To respond to this risk, climate scientists, engineers and emergency mangers...
Oct 18 2022 // As unions see new hope from organizing U.S. businesses ranging from Starbucks storefronts to an Amazon warehouse, Republican-led Tennessee will officially take its voters’ temperature on an organized labor issue in...
Sep 21 2022 // EPIC Insurance Brokers, a property and casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consultant, announced that is has named Parker Rains as managing principal for its property/casualty practice.Rains, based in...
Sep 20 2022 // Smart Choice, a network of independent agents, has acquired Carriage Hill Insurance, an agency in Tennessee.The agency has $4 million in annual revenue, with offices in Lenoir City, Oak Ridge, Brentwood and Athens,...
Sep 8 2022 // Coffee store giant, Starbucks Corp., will reinstate seven employees who were fired in February after leading an effort to unionize a Memphis store.The seven workers will get their jobs back after the Seattle-based coffee...
Sep 7 2022 // Rains Insurance Inc. has acquired the operating assets of Chattanooga-based Sunbelt Group, marking the first acquisition of an independent insurance agency by Rains. Rains, also an independent agency, is a subsidiary of...
Sep 1 2022 // Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Tuesday that an executive order on school safety from June has so far produced a new mobile app, school behavioral health professionals in each county and updated law enforcement training and...
Aug 26 2022 // Federal and state officials are investigating after two Tennessee law enforcement officers died when their helicopter hit power lines and crashed in a wooded area near Chattanooga.Tennessee Highway Patrol Sgt. Lee Russell...
Aug 24 2022 // The U.S. Department of Justice reached a settlement with Knoxville, Tennessee-based Covenant Health over claims that it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.The settlement comes in the case of a deaf man who...
Aug 22 2022 // Lockton, a global brokerage firm that provides insurance and employee benefits, has named two new executives in its Tennessee region.Jay Brown, with 25 years of experience, will be president in Lockton’s Nashville...
Aug 17 2022 // A private prison company has agreed to settle a federal lawsuit over a Tennessee inmate’s killing that gained national attention after a judge ordered the plaintiff’s attorney to stop tweeting about...
Aug 10 2022 // Tennessee regulators, who for years have touted the state as a comfortable home for captive insurance companies, have announced that the state government has created its own captive.The state is self-insured for property...
Aug 9 2022 // Virtus LLC, a Kansas City-based insurance brokerage and consulting firm, has joined forces with Kemmons Wilson Insurance Group, a Memphis company that specializes in insuring hospitality and hotel firms. The combined firm...
Jul 18 2022 // Sedgwick, one of the largest workers’ compensation claims-management firms in the United States, was penalized by Tennessee regulators more than any other company in the last five years.But most of the fines have...
Jul 15 2022 // Mathis, Tibbets & Mathis, a 36-year-old independent broker of commercial and personal property/casualty insurance, surety bonds and employee benefits plans, based in Memphis, has been acquired by...
Jul 14 2022 // Atlanta-based Oakbridge Insurance Agency, one of the largest regional agencies, has added The Assurance Center to its family. Assurance, headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, is a risk consultancy and agency with an...