Latest Tennessee Headlines
All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Tennessee Launches its Own Captive Insurance Company for Cyber, Property
Aug 10 2022 // Tennessee regulators, who for years have touted the state as a comfortable home for captive insurance companies, have announced that the state government has created its own captive. The state is self-insured for property...
Tennessee’s Kemmons Wilson Joins Virtus Brokerage
Aug 9 2022 // Virtus LLC, a Kansas City-based insurance brokerage and consulting firm, has joined forces with Kemmons Wilson Insurance Group, a Memphis company that specializes in insuring hospitality and hotel firms. The combined firm...
Tennessee’s Workers’ Comp System Limits Help for Injuries, Newspaper Reports
Jul 18 2022 // Sedgwick, one of the largest workers’ compensation claims-management firms in the United States, was penalized by Tennessee regulators more than any other company in the last five years. But most of the fines have...
Higginbotham Adds Mathis Broker in Tennessee
Jul 15 2022 // Mathis, Tibbets & Mathis, a 36-year-old independent broker of commercial and personal property/casualty insurance, surety bonds and employee benefits plans, based in Memphis, has been acquired by...
Oakbridge Continues SE Expansion with Tennessee’s Assurance Center
Jul 14 2022 // Atlanta-based Oakbridge Insurance Agency, one of the largest regional agencies, has added The Assurance Center to its family. Assurance, headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, is a risk consultancy and agency with an...
A Year Later: Tennessee Flood that Killed 20 Challenges Community
Jun 22 2022 // When a flash flood tore through Waverly, Tennessee, 17-year-old Zoe Turner ran to safety on the top floor of her family’s home. The rushing water would claim the lives of 20 of her neighbors, damage more than 700...
Tennessee Regulators Tout Insurance Industry Growth in the State
Jun 7 2022 // Tennessee regulators are crowing about the considerable growth in the insurance industry the state has seen in the last two years. Insurance Commissioner Carter Lawrence said in a bulletin posted Tuesday that the 294,000...
Tennessee Supreme Court Hears Coal-Ash Workers’ Arguments
Jun 3 2022 // Tennessee Supreme Court justices fired numerous questions Wednesday at a company that is challenging lawsuits alleging its workers were sickened or died after cleaning up the nation’s worst coal ash spill, which...
Sovereign Immunity No Defense in $3B Tenn. Coal-Ash Lawsuit, 6th Circuit Rules
May 23 2022 // Sovereign immunity does not protect a federal contractor against a lawsuit filed by some 60 former employees seeking $3 billion in punitive damages for illnesses suffered after exposure to toxic coal ash during a clean-up...
Agency Promotes Shulz to Expand Tennessee as Captive Domicile
May 16 2022 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance has named Michael Shulz to be director of business development for the insurance division, promoting the growth of Tennessee-based captive insurance companies. Tennessee...
People: Keystone Names Nalley Tennessee VP
May 13 2022 // Keystone Insurers Group, which calls itself the fourth largest participant-owned insurance agency network in the country, has named Carolyn Nalley as new Tennessee state vice president. Nalley was previously at The...
Case of COVID Same as Vaccine, Tennessee Law Says
May 2 2022 // Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee declined to sign off on a new law requiring governments and businesses to treat immunity from a previous COVID-19 infection as equal to getting vaccinated in their policies. The legislation became...
Families Blame CSX for Tennessee Flooding that Killed 20 in August
Apr 11 2022 // Ten families are suing CSX Transportation for up to $450 million over flooding that killed 20 people in Tennessee last year, claiming a clog underneath the railroad giant’s bridge in rural Waverly allowed a...
Former Tennessee Nurse Convicted of Homicide in Medication Error
Mar 28 2022 // A former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse has been found guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of a patient who was accidentally given the wrong medication, a jury said Friday. She was also found...
People: Clements to Tenn. Captive Section, Allen to Franklin Street
Mar 24 2022 // Tennessee Hires New Captive Assistant Director Clements The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Industry announced it has named Daniel Clements as assistant director of the Captive Insurance Section. Clements is a...
Online Exams a Hit with Tennessee Insurance Agent Candidates
Mar 11 2022 // The proportion of prospective Tennessee insurance agents taking exams online has doubled in the last year, the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Industry reported. The department said that almost 40% of insurance...
Tennessee Insurance Department Uses Mediation to Settle Claims Disputes, Returns $8M
Mar 4 2022 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance returned more than $8 million to policyholders in 2021 through mediation between consumers and insurance companies, the department announced this week. The department...
Business Moves
Feb 21 2022 // East Truist Insurance, Kensington Vanguard Charlotte, North Carolina-based Insurance broker Truist Insurance Holdings Inc. agreed to acquire the national title insurance agency Kensington Vanguard National Land Services....
Parts of Mississippi Valley, Mid-South Under Tornado Watch
Feb 17 2022 // A tornado watch is in effect for parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee until 6:00 p.m. CST, Thursday Feb. 16, according to the National Weather Service. The NWS said to expect “Severe thunderstorms...
Business Moves
Feb 7 2022 // National Marsh McLennan, Affinity Agency Association Member Benefits Advisors, a national affinity-based membership and marketing insurance agency, has agreed to acquire the associations business of Mercer, a business of...
