Latest Tennessee Headlines
All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
The Seibels Bruce Group Receives Approval to Resume Writing New Commercial Lines Business in Tenn.
Oct 24 2003 // 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....
The PGA of America, Helping To Make Golf A Powerful Business Tool
Aug 4 2003 // It has long been known that the game of golf is a powerful business and social tool. Presidents and prime ministers all over the world play the game. CEOs and other senior business folk use the game to court clients and...
Tenn. Forms Joint Committee to Study Tort Reform
Jul 18 2003 // Attempting to keep Tennessee from becoming a “crisis state” with regards to medical malpractice awards, a special joint committee has begun a series of meetings to study the effects that tort reform would have...
Tenn. Names Lewis and Gowan Named as Assist. Commissioners
Jun 24 2003 // Tennessee Commerce and Insurance Commissioner Paula A. Flowers announced the appointments of Nashville attorney Robert E. Gowan and former state Rep. Doyle “Butch” Lewis as assistant commissioners. Gowan joins...
Tenn. Moves Forward on Liquidation of Malpractice Firms
Jun 9 2003 // Tennessee Commissioner of Commerce and Insurance Paula A. Flowers announced that her department received court approval to liquidate three Tennessee-chartered malpractice insurance companies that issued policies to...
BB&T to Acquire Tennessee Agency
Jun 6 2003 // North Carolina-based BB&T Insurance Services announced plans to buy STHARCO Inc., parent company of Kingsport Development Company (KDC) Insurance Inc. of Kingsport, Tenn. The acquisition would give the insurance...
Tennessee Moves to Liquidate Virginia Reciprocals
May 20 2003 // Tennessee Commissioner of Commerce and Insurance Paula A. Flowers filed court petitions seeking the liquidation of three related Tennessee-chartered insurance reciprocal companies that insure thousands of lawyers, doctors,...
Tenn. Insureds to Get Refunds from Exchange
May 2 2003 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance announced that Exchange Insurance Company is currently mailing checks to over 5,000 of the company’s insureds as reimbursement for their unused premiums. As a result...
Options Open for Exchange Policyholders in Tenn.
Apr 18 2003 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance announced that former policyholders of Exchange Insurance Company, which is now under state supervision, now have options in their search to obtain new homeowners...
Atnip Pleads Guilty to Computer Fraud in Tenn.
Mar 6 2003 // Gary Atnip, a Tennessee accountant who allegedly helped funnel $18 million to financier Martin Frankel in an insurance fraud scheme, pleaded guilty in Tennessee Court to state charges of computer fraud. According to the...
American Nat’l Lawyers Reciprocal Ratings Revised to ‘R’
Feb 13 2003 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said it revised its counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Tennessee malpractices insurer, American National Lawyers Insurance Reciprocal Risk Retention Group...
Tenn. Commissioner Briefs Lawmakers on Reciprocals in Receivership
Feb 11 2003 // Tennessee Commissioner of Commerce and Insurance Paula A. Flowers briefed the state’s House of Representatives on the department’s placement of three malpractice insurance reciprocals into...
Reciprocals Placed into Receivership in Tenn.
Feb 4 2003 // A Tennessee court granted the petitions of Insurance Commissioner Paula A. Flowers to place three insurance reciprocals that write malpractice insurance into receivership. Receivership will allow the state Commerce and...
Malpractice Insurers Placed Under Supervision in Tenn.
Feb 3 2003 // Tennessee Insurance Commissioner Paula A. Flowers announced that three malpractice insurers—Doctors Insurance Reciprocal RRG, American National Lawyers Insurance Reciprocal RRG and the Reciprocal Alliance RRG—were...
Flowers Takes Over as Tennessee Commissioner
Jan 21 2003 // Nashville attorney Paula A. Flowers is the new commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance. Appointed last December by then Governor-elect Phil Bresden, Flowers specialized in regulatory and...
They Did It Their Way
Dec 16 2002 // When you’re compiling a list of top 10’s, there is always the fear of leaving someone off, admitting someone who maybe does not deserve the billing or having the players out of order of importance. Believe me,...
No Loss Figures Yet for Storm-Ravaged States
Nov 13 2002 // It will be another day or two before State Farm Insurance Company will have information on the amount of insured losses resulting from a series of strong storms that hit eastern and southeastern states Nov. 10 and 11. At...
STATES SUE BANKS IN FRANKEL CASE
Aug 19 2002 // Five Southeastern states that lost $200 million to financier Martin Frankel’s reported insurance schemes filed suit against their banks, arguing those institutions should have been prepared for Frankel’s...
Five States Sue Banks in Frankel Case
Aug 7 2002 // Five Southeastern states that lost $200 million to financier Martin Frankel’s reported insurance schemes filed suit against their banks, arguing those institutions should have been prepared for Frankel’s...
Chicago’s Acordia Acquires Tenn. Broker, Forges Agreement with ConfirmNet
Apr 4 2002 // Acordia Inc., an insurance broker based in Chicago and a subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Company, recently confirmed the acquisition of Risk Management Services Inc., a single-office brokerage firm located in Morristown,...
