Latest Tennessee Headlines
All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Tennessee-based Gale Smith & Co.
Jul 24 2008 // Itasca, Ill.-based Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. acquired Gale Smith & Company, Inc. of Brentwood, Tennessee. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1868, Gale Smith & Co. is a retail...
Mutual Assurance Acquires Tennessee-based Pittman & Associates
Jul 22 2008 // Mutual Assurance Administrators Inc. (MAA) of Oklahoma City has acquired Pittman & Associates Inc. (P&A) of Tennessee. Mutual Assurance Administrators Inc. is a third-party administrator specializing in...
American E&S Appoints New Broker in Tennessee
Jul 22 2008 // Paul McCulloch joined American E&S Insurance Brokers as senior vice president and broker in its Nashville, Tenn. office. McCulloch will focus on building national programs and facilities. With more than 20 years in...
Tennessee Safety Officials to Investigate Fatal Workplace Accident
Jul 10 2008 // A fall from a platform area at Alstom Power Inc. in Chattanooga, Tennessee killed a 48-year-old man. Police said investigators are trying to pinpoint the cause of the fall from a height of more than 30 feet on July...
Tennessee Insurance Chief Files Building Code Emergency Rules
Jul 9 2008 // Leslie Newman, commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance, filed emergency rules with the Tennessee Secretary of State to allow building plans to be submitted and reviewed under either the 2003...
Tennessee to Register Scrap Metal Dealers
Jul 7 2008 // Tennessee’s Department of Commerce and Insurance will be promulgating rules for a scrap metal marking system, uniform terminology to describe the metals most commonly sold as scrap and a system for registering scrap...
Declarations
Jul 7 2008 // Picking Up Non-Renewals “I feel confident that the people on the Gulf Coast that have been canceled by State Farm will be able to buy insurance from Allstate and Nationwide and others that I have not...
Imprisoned Tennessee Insurance Executive Charged with Bribery
Jul 1 2008 // A former Tennessee insurance executive is accused of trying to buy his way out of prison. Federal authorities charged James Michael Foley of Germantown last week with bribery of a government official and obstruction of...
Tennessee Highway Patrol Cracking Down on Dangerous Driving
Jun 30 2008 // The Tennessee Highway Patrol began a summer crackdown on drivers who speed, drive while impaired or do not use safety belts. The initiative the state kicked off on June 26 is called “100 Days of Summer HEAT (Highway...
Tennessee Rally Highlights Sick Cold War Workers Seeking Compensation
Jun 27 2008 // Former Cold War workers and their supporters rallied in Oak Ridge, Tenn. to demand help for workers made ill from exposure to hazardous and radioactive materials in the government’s nuclear weapons facilities. The...
Ratings: Argonaut, MAPFRE (Fla.), Pekin, Penn National, AXA Art, Tennessee Farmers, ALPS, BancInsure
Jun 23 2008 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “a” of the Texas-based Argonaut Insurance Group and its members. Best also...
Tennessee Implements Scrap Metal Theft Prevention Program
Jun 19 2008 // Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance Commissioner Leslie Newman named the members that will serve on an advisory committee for the department’s scrap metals registration program. The advisory committee is...
Tennessee Gov. Vetoes Williamson County Bill, Citing Safety Rules
Jun 18 2008 // Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen vetoed a bill that would have exempted a church-operated school in Williamson County from statewide building construction safety standards. Bredesen said in his veto letter dated June 13 that...
Fire Units Consolidation in Tennessee Could Reduce Insurance Cost
Jun 12 2008 // Roane County, Tennessee commissioners have approved the creation of a county fire department. The 15-0 vote June 9 in Kingston, Tenn. cleared the way for county officials to set up an organization that will coordinate...
Tennessee Bankruptcy Rate Continues to Lead Nation
Jun 11 2008 // Tennessee continues to have the highest personal bankruptcy rate in the nation and experts are predicting even more filings next year because of the slowing economy. According to a report released last week by the Federal...
Tennessee Man Arrested for Workers’ Comp Fraud in Virginia
Jun 11 2008 // A Tennessee trucker faces 193 charges for workers’ compensation fraud in Virginia, according to Virginia authorities. Virginia State Police special agents detained William Douglas Pickel on May 21 as Big Sandy...
Inspectors Find Problems at Tennessee Nursing Homes
Jun 8 2008 // State inspections uncovered an unprecedented number of dangerous living conditions at Tennessee nursing homes during the past year. The crackdown comes after a May report from the Government Accountability Office found...
J. Smith Lanier Names New Managing Director in Tennessee
Jun 2 2008 // West Point, Ga.-based J. Smith Lanier & Co. added Mark Benson as the new managing director in its Knoxville, Tenn. office. Benson will oversee all sales, financial expenses and personnel in Knoxville. Benson joined J....
Tenn. Reforms Moderate Workers’ Comp Costs
Jun 2 2008 // Tennessee experienced a moderation in average workers’ compensation costs per claim among 14 study states, after two consecutive years of rapid cost growth and in the wake of reforms enacted in 2004, according to a...
2004 Reforms Slow Tennessee Workers’ Comp Costs, Study Finds
May 23 2008 // Tennessee experienced a moderation in average workers’ compensation costs per claim among 14 study states, after two consecutive years of rapid cost growth and in the wake of reforms enacted in 2004, according to a...
