All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 2 2007 // Tennessee authorities filed arson charges this week against four volunteer firefighters in connection with two house fires in Bell Buckle.Bedford County Sheriff Randall Boyce said all suspects have confessed to parts of...
Feb 28 2007 // Indiana Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, will host its second of four free, day-long Safer Schools Seminars on March 7 at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.School violence and sexual...
Feb 27 2007 // The surviving relatives of a man who died after being cared for in a nursing home have been awarded $4.2 million in compensatory damages, and the amount could be more if a judge’s ruling vacating punitive damages is...
Feb 27 2007 // USI Holdings Corp. announced the acquisition of Memphis, Tenn.-based H.W. Gates Agency, Inc., which serves the Memphis metro area. Gates is expected to contribute approximately $1.0 million of revenues to USI on an annual...
Feb 20 2007 // Insurance broker Appalachian Underwriters will double its Knoxville-Oak Ridge Innovation Valley, Tenn., presence to more than 300 people over the next three years, company officials announced.As part of the expansion, the...
Feb 15 2007 // The state of Tennessee is now making sure doctors report all their malpractice claims so they can be posted on the Tennessee Department of Health’s Web site for the public to see.A recent investigation by WTVF-TV in...
Feb 9 2007 // Tennessee’s Workers Compensation Penalty Program has collected close to $300,000 in penalties from insurance carriers and employers since it was created in 2004, officials said.In its first year, the program received...
Jan 29 2007 // Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen has named a Nashville attorney, Leslie Shechter Newman, as commissioner of the Department of Commerce and Insurance. She succeeds Paula Flowers, who recently resigned.Newman is a partner...
Jan 28 2007 // Goldman Sachs, USI HoldingsBig insurance broker USI Holdings Corp. agreed to be acquired by GS Capital Partners, a private equity affiliate of Goldman, Sachs and Co., in a transaction valued at approximately $1.4 billion,...
Jan 28 2007 // New insurance commissioner in TennesseeTennessee Governor Phil Bredesen has named a Nashville attorney, Leslie Shechter Newman, as commissioner of the Department of Commerce and Insurance. She succeeds Paula Flowers, who...
Jan 25 2007 // Traffic fatalities in Tennessee have gone down slightly over the past two years following the passage of two important driver safety laws, according to preliminary statistics from 2006.The state lowered the minimum...
Jan 15 2007 // Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen has named a Nashville attorney, Leslie Shechter Newman, as commissioner of the Department of Commerce and Insurance.She succeeds Paula Flowers, who recently resigned. Newman is a partner...
Jan 8 2007 // Most medical malpractice claims closed in Tennessee result in no payment of damages to patients and their families, according to a recent report.However, the approximately 16 percent of claims that were paid accounted for...
Jan 7 2007 // Most medical malpractice claims closed in Tennessee result in no payment of damages to patients and their families, according to a recent report.However, the approximately 16 percent of claims that were paid accounted for...
Jan 3 2007 // Alfa Corp. has completed completion its previously approved plan of conversion and acquisition of Virginia Mutual Insurance Co. Virginia Mutual converted from a mutual company to a stock company and simultaneously has been...
Dec 29 2006 // A Smithville, Tenn., insurance broker was arrested Dec. 27 on 15 federal counts of wire fraud, according to officials.According to the federal grand jury indictment, B. Don James defrauded investors of more than $1.8...
Dec 26 2006 // Most medical malpractice claims closed in Tennessee last year resulted in no payment of damages to patients and their families, according to a recent report.However, the approximately 16 percent of claims that were paid...
Dec 10 2006 // Arthur J. Gallagher & CoArthur J. Gallagher & Co. reports it has acquired Adams & Associates International, Ltd. of Columbia, S.C. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Adams & Associates...
Dec 4 2006 // Strategic Independent Agents Alliance (SIAA) announced that Cumberland Insurance Group, LLC of Cookeville, Tenn. has established Independent Agents Alliance of Tennessee as an SIAA Master Agency. As a master agency, the...
Nov 26 2006 // The City Council is calling for an investigation after its members claimed the mayor, manager and other officials improperly withheld correspondence about the city’s fire insurance rating.Council member Shannon Alvey...