All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 21 2004 // The Tennessee General Assembly on Thursday gave final approval to workers’ compensation legislation that seeks to address rising costs in the state’s workers’ comp system.SB 3424, introduced at the...
May 6 2004 // U.S. Senators Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) this week announced that the City of Jackson will receive $10.9 million from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to help rebuild public housing...
May 3 2004 // North Carolina-based BB&T Corporation has completed its acquisition of insurance premium finance company Capitol Premium Plan Inc. of Charlotte, N.C.BB&T has combined the 43-year-old firm with Prime Rate Premium...
Apr 27 2004 // Tennessee-based Diversified Product Inspections Inc., a provider of independent product failure analysis, air contamination and fire investigations for the insurance industry, recently attended the Knoxville Board of...
Apr 21 2004 // Farmers Insurance announced that its customers in Tennessee may qualify for a special discount on Home insurance when they also have a Farmers New World Life Insurance Company policy. “The Home Life Discount is...
Apr 20 2004 // Insurance Technologies Corporation (ITC) is pleased to announce the release of real-time credit/risk scores (financial responsibility scores) from their comparative rating system (TurboRater) in Tennessee and Indiana. This...
Apr 6 2004 // Tennessee Senate Republicans reportedly stand ready to move the Volunteer State forward with a comprehensive workers’ compensation reform bill sponsored by Senator Mark Norris (R-Collierville). The bill, Senate Bill...
Apr 5 2004 // Tennessee Insurance Commissioner Paula Flowers has issued a new bulletin cautioning that Tennessee insurers must notify their policyholders about rate or rate factor increases on Commercial Risk policies.The Department of...
Mar 29 2004 // Great Central Insurance, a member of Argonaut Group Inc.’s Specialty Commercial segment, announced that they have been appointed the Preferred Provider for the Tennessee Restaurant Association (TRA) property and...
Mar 22 2004 // As agents search for the best way to market workers’ compensation coverage in Tennessee, several with industry expertise on the subject, spoke with Insurance Journal Southeast on what needs to be done to make for a...
Mar 16 2004 // Tennessee’s Department of Commerce and Insurance last Friday filed civil charges against former Golden Gloves boxer Anthony Young, who is reported to have seriously injured several participants in a Toughman contest...
Mar 8 2004 // Tennessee Insurance Commissioner Paula Flowers, acting as liquidator for three failed malpractice insurance firms, recently filed suit in U.S. District Court seeking to recover damages on behalf of the companies’...
Feb 9 2004 // He came to Washington, D.C., with a background steeped in medicine.U.S. Senate Majority Leader and Tennessee Republican Bill Frist has known first-hand the impact of the nation’s medical malpractice crisis and how it...
Feb 9 2004 // The U.S. Census Bureau’s 2000 census estimated the population of the State of Tennessee at 5.6 million. Approximately 76 percent of the adult residents had graduated from high school and about 20 percent had earned a...
Feb 9 2004 // After years of depressed pricing and a soft workers’ compensation market, prices are on the rise in many parts of the country, a trend analysts predict will continue through at least this year and probably next. The...
Jan 26 2004 // Paula Flowers, the commissioner of Tennessee’s Department of Commerce and Insurance, recently set aside some time to talk with Insurance Journal Southeast regarding some of the industry issues impacting the Volunteer...
Jan 23 2004 // Gov. Phil Bredesen’s call to action to reform the Tennessee workers’ compensation system this year is welcomed news, a representative of the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies said Thursday.In a...
Jan 12 2004 // The Seibels Bruce Group Inc. has received approval from the Tennessee Department of Insurance allowing subsidiary Catawba Insurance Company (CIC) to resume writing new risk-bearing commercial lines business in Tennessee....
Dec 17 2003 // U.S. Senators Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) recently announced the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has approved two grants totaling more than $6 million to pay for electric utility system...
Nov 3 2003 // Tennessee Commerce and Insurance Commissioner Paula Flowers has appointed Larry Knight Jr. as assistant commissioner for insurance. Knight has been with the department for 10 years, rising in the ranks from an entry-level...