All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 28 2023 // Latino workers at a Tennessee meat processing plant have reached a $1.2 million settlement in a lawsuit over a 2018 immigration raid in which they were “targeted by federal agents” because of their ethnicity,...
Feb 24 2023 // A fire that broke out Wednesday at the Y-12 National Security Complex in a building where uranium is processed has been contained, officials said. The fire at the facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was reported shortly...
Feb 14 2023 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance has named Mark Wiedeman, a Utah native, as director of the department’s captive insurance section.Wiedeman, a graduate of Brigham Young University, joined the Utah...
Feb 7 2023 // Drought affects everything from water quality and public health to ecosystems and infrastructure. But when does a drought become severe enough to warrant water restrictions?Tennessee state agencies do not have that answer,...
Feb 6 2023 // Fewer than 100 employees out of the thousands who work at Nissan’s auto assembly plant in Tennessee can hold a vote on whether to form a small union, the federal labor board has decided.The ruling last week by the...
Feb 1 2023 // The Tenneesse Department of Commerce and Insurance secured a record $11.5 million for policyholders in 2022, after mediating complaints about insurers.The department’s insurance services team mediated 3,249...
Jan 19 2023 // YOAKUM, Texas (AP) – A small plane crashed Tuesday while approaching a Texas airport, killing four members of a Tennessee church and leaving the lead pastor injured, authorities and the church said.The single-engine...
Jan 10 2023 // Rescue squads in Tennessee can now apply for state grants for equipment used in emergency response and for equipment used to protect rescue workers. The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance announced this week...
Jan 2 2023 // A federal utility’s decision to resort to rolling blackouts after coal and natural gas units went offline during dangerously cold conditions has intensified questions about the Tennessee Valley Authority’s...
Dec 22 2022 // Tennessee officials are halting nearly all construction-related lane closures on interstates and state highways for Christmas and New Year’s holiday travelers. The Tennessee Department of Transportation says the...
Dec 21 2022 // Tennessee’s insurance commissioner has approved a 10.2% average decrease in workers’ compensation loss costs for the voluntary market, marking the 10th-straight reduction for the state.The Dec. 14 order from...
Nov 28 2022 // Starting Jan. 1, security guards in Tennessee will need new training to de-escalate violence, and bars that employ untrained guards could lose their liquor licenses.It’s all part of Dallas’ Law, passed by state...
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,...