Latest Tennessee Headlines
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Prosecutor Claims Tennessee School Bus Driver in Deadly Crash Was on Phone
Dec 22 2017 // The driver in a Tennessee school bus crash that killed six elementary school students took a cell phone call at the time of the crash, a prosecutor said Tuesday. According to the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Hamilton...
Tennessee Returns $6.5M in Restitution to Insurance Consumers in 2017
Dec 22 2017 // Tennessee consumers received $9.4 million in restitution and the recovery of life insurance benefits in 2017, according to the Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance’s (TDCI) Consumer Insurance Services...
Former Tennessee Deputy Insurance Commissioner Giannini Killed in Car Crash
Dec 18 2017 // A former deputy commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance has died in a car crash. Media outlets report that Bill Giannini, who also was a former chairman of the Shelby County Election Commission...
17 Workers Sickened at Tennessee Metal Fabricater Plant
Dec 15 2017 // Officials say 17 workers at a Tennessee plant who complained of headaches and nausea are getting medical treatment. McMinn County Mayor John Gentry said the “exposure” incident happened Wednesday morning at the...
Insurer Settles Federal Suit With Defunct Tennessee Plant Over Unpaid Bills
Dec 15 2017 // A settlement has been reached in a federal lawsuit over $750,000 in unpaid utility bills at a shuttered Tennessee glass plant. The Kingsport Times News reports insurer North American Specialty sued Heritage Glass and its...
Greenbrier Hotel Corp Sued by Tennessee Rental Co Over $623K Insurance Payout
Dec 14 2017 // A Tennessee company has filed a lawsuit against The Greenbrier Hotel Corporation in West Virginia and two affiliated companies, citing The Greenbrier resort’s failure to pay out on damaged rental equipment. The...
Brentwood Services Administrators of Tennessee Adds Anderson to Claims Unit
Dec 12 2017 // Brentwood Services Administrators Inc. (BSA), headquartered in Brentwood, Tenn., has added Deanna Nicole Anderson as a claims assistant in its occupational injury unit in the Brentwood office, according to Jeff Pettus,...
Ex-Tennessee Lawmaker Sues Trucking Company for $1.5M Over Accident Injuries
Dec 12 2017 // A former Tennessee lawmaker is suing an Illinois trucking company for injuries he received in a vehicle accident. The Kingsport Times News reports that former state Rep. Jason Mumpower, who is currently the Tennessee...
Brightway Insurance to Open 3 New Offices, Expand Into Tennessee
Dec 8 2017 // Brightway Insurance is continuing its expansion across the country with the opening of three new offices on Dec. 11, which includes the opening of its first agency in Tennessee. Erik Serio will open Brightway, The Serio...
New York’s The Iroquois Group Announces Regional Realignment
Dec 7 2017 // The Iroquois Group, an Allegany, N.Y.-based service provider for independent property and casualty insurance agencies, has announced changes to its regional structure to better align Iroquois regions with those of their...
Tennessee Community Devastated by Fires Doubtful Climate Change Poses Future Risk
Dec 7 2017 // Bob Bentz had just installed underground utility lines and paved a new road when wildfires roared through the eastern Tennessee treetop canopy he wanted to transform into a $30 million adventure park. A year later, after...
Tennessee’s McPeak to Succeed Wisconsin’s Nickel as NAIC President in 2018
Dec 6 2017 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) elected the following officers for 2018 during the organization’s Fall 2017 national meeting. The newly-elected officers who will assume their...
Fire at Tennessee Animal Rescue Injures Workers, Firefighter, Animals
Dec 6 2017 // Veterinarians in Tennessee are treating animals injured in a fire at a zoo and rescue facility for exotic animals. Anderson County Chief Sheriff’s Deputy Mark Lucas told WATE-TV that some zoo workers and a...
3M Says it Underreported Chemical Discharge in Tennessee River
Dec 4 2017 // For more than three years, 3M Co. underreported its discharge of a class of potentially toxic chemicals into the Tennessee River by a factor of 1,000, according to a letter sent by a 3M official to regulators at the...
Tennessee Fines Nursing Home $50K For Patient Deaths
Dec 4 2017 // Tennessee state inspectors found widespread neglect resulting in patients’ deaths at a nursing home that has been fined $50,000, the most of any such penalty ever imposed. The Commercial Appeal cites the inspection...
Woman Staying in Hotel During Tennessee Wildfires Claims PTSD in Lawsuit
Dec 1 2017 // A Tennessee woman who checked in to a hotel as deadly wildfires raged nearby says in a lawsuit that she was terrified she would die in the hotel and is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder because of the...
Index Shows Where People Are Moving in Next Few Months
Nov 30 2017 // It’s possible to know where in the country more homebuyers will be moving over the next 30 to 90 days, thanks to what’s called a “pre-mover” index. It turns out that the U.S. markets with the...
Idled Tennessee Chemical Plant Maintains Staff After Explosion
Nov 9 2017 // A chemical plant in Tennessee that will likely stay idle until next year has maintained its staff of almost 700 workers as it recovers from an explosion there in September. The Chattanooga Times Free-Press reports that...
NORCAL Mutual Expands MPLI Offerings to Tennessee
Nov 6 2017 // NORCAL Mutual Insurance Company is now offering coverage to health care professionals in Tennessee. This is the latest in NORCAL’s national expansion, which now reaches 39 states, including the District of...
Brentwood Services Inc. of Tennessee Names Tucker Senior Accountant
Nov 3 2017 // Brentwood Services Inc. (BSI), headquartered in Brentwood, Tenn., has appointed Jason Tucker to the position of senior accountant in the Accounting Department, according to Jeff Pettus, chief operating officer of Brentwood...
