Latest Tennessee Headlines
All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Tennessee to Arrest Illegal Drivers Involved in Serious Auto Accidents
Apr 26 2012 // Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has signed into law a bill that for the first time would require law enforcement officials to arrest drivers involved in serious automobile accidents who don’t have a valid driver’s...
Tennessee Lawsuit Charges ‘Bachelor,’ ‘Bachelorette’ TV Shows with Racial Bias
Apr 20 2012 // Two black men are taking “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” to court with a lawsuit that claims the reality shows are blocking contestants of color from starring roles. Nathaniel Claybrooks and...
Southeast Insurance Employment: Agency, Carrier Plans Brighten Picture
Apr 18 2012 // Those interested in new or better positions in insurance might want to grab their suntan lotion and head to the Southeast. They might also want to brush up on their Spanish. The unemployment rate remains higher in key...
Tennessee Warns on Certificates of Insurance
Apr 16 2012 // Authorities in Tennessee are warning agents that certificates of insurance must be consistent with the underlying policy or they risk being penalized under state law. The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance...
Tennessee Hoping Federal Program Reverses Recent Rise in Traffic Deaths
Apr 13 2012 // After years of declines in traffic fatalities, deaths in crashes are on the rise again in Tennessee. But state highway officials are hoping a federal demonstration project will reverse that trend. Kendell Poole, director...
Judge Orders 3 Tennessee Attorneys to Repay Insurance Monies
Apr 9 2012 // A judge in Nashville has found three Memphis attorneys in contempt of court and ordered them to repay nearly $670,000 to people who thought they were buying health insurance. The Tennessean reported Davidson County...
Tennessee Issues Warning on Certificates of Insurance
Apr 4 2012 // Authorities in Tennessee are warning agents that certificates of insurance must be consistent with the underlying policy or they risk being penalized under state law. The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance...
Small Towns in Southeast Hit Hard by Tornadoes
Mar 5 2012 // Residents of towns throughout the Southeast are recovering from the shock of last Friday’s severe storms and tornadoes. Along with pubic and insurance officials, they are beginning to assess the damage from the...
Tennessee School Admits Foul Over Basketball Insurance
Feb 20 2012 // A Tennessee state university has apologized to an insurance company after representing that the insurer improperly denied a $20,000 prize claim to fund a promotional contest held during a basketball game. East Tennessee...
Tennessee University Apologizes for Foul Over Basketball Prize Insurance Claim
Jan 30 2012 // A Tennessee state university has apologized to an insurance company after representing that the insurer improperly denied a $20,000 prize claim to fund a promotional contest held during a basketball game. East Tennessee...
Tennessee’s Appalachian Underwriters Adds Three Brokers
Jan 27 2012 // Appalachian Underwriters has added three brokers to its property and professional practice group. Shane Holden has 20 years of insurance and risk management experience at the retail level. Most recently, he worked for...
Accident Insurance Hires Sadler to Cover Tennessee
Jan 24 2012 // Pam Sadler has joined Accident Insurance Co. as a business development representative for the state of Tennessee. Sadler joined AIC in December after spending more than 20 years as a marketing representative for Grain...
Mistakes at Tennessee Nuclear Reactor Cause Work Stoppage
Jan 24 2012 // Mistakes by construction workers at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts Bar reactor project, described last Friday by the utility’s chief executive as potentially fatal, idled about 1,000 workers temporarily...
Highway Deaths in Tennessee Fall Below 1,000
Jan 19 2012 // Tennessee’s highway deaths in 2011 stayed below 1,000 for just the third time in 48 years. Preliminary figures released by the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security show the state had 947...
Tennessee to Study Workers’ Compensation System
Jan 13 2012 // Tennessee state officials, business groups, labor leaders and legal experts are lining up to study the state’s workers’ compensation system, although it may be 2013 before any legislative deals are...
Tennessee Plant Owners Failed to Protect Against Explosive: Panel
Jan 10 2012 // A federal panel says a company knew of the explosive danger of dust throughout its Tennessee plant but didn’t do enough to prevent three separate blasts that killed five people last year. The U.S. Chemical Safety...
Tennessee Traffic Fatalities at Lowest Level in 49 Years
Jan 5 2012 // Tennessee traffic fatalities declined sharply this year, reaching their lowest figure in 49 years. So far in 2011, 926 people have died in wrecks in the state. It’s the fewest since 811 in 1962. Col. Tracy Trott of...
Tennessee Alters Surplus Lines Licensing
Dec 5 2011 // The expiration date for surplus lines licenses in Tennessee will soon have to coincide with the expiration of an agent’s primary insurance producer license. All surplus lines license expiration dates will be moved...
Tennessee Alters Surplus Lines Licensing
Nov 15 2011 // The expiration date for surplus lines licenses in Tennessee will soon have to coincide with the expiration of an agent’s primary insurance producer license. All surplus lines license expiration dates will be moved...
Factory Dust Explosions Killing Workers While Safety Rules Lag
Nov 15 2011 // Each year, people are killed and maimed by explosions of finely powdered wood, metal or chemicals at factories around the country. Safety experts have studied the threat posed by dust at industrial sites for nearly a...
