Chattanooga School Bus Crash Kills 6 Children, Injures 23
Woodmore Elementary School bus driver Johnthony Walker has been arrested and charged with multiple counts of vehicular homicide, reckless endangerment and reckless driving, according to Chattanooga Police Chief Fred Fletcher.
November 22, 2016
Excess & Surplus Lines
Tennessee
Insurers At The Ready As Wildfires Continue To Blaze
“While many have been lucky so far, its important that residents in the impacted areas know insurers are standing by ready to help,” Oyango Snell, Property Casualty Insurers Association of Americas regional manager, said in a statement.
November 18, 2016
Catastrophe
Property
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
North Carolina
South Carolina
Drought Conditions Contributing To Wildfires In The Southeast
Unseasonably warm dry weather has deepened a drought thats igniting forest fires across the southeastern U.S., forcing people to flee homes in the Appalachian Mountains and blanketing Atlanta in a smoky haze.
November 11, 2016
Property
Georgia
Kentucky
North Carolina
Tennessee
Tennessee Product Liability Law Holds Amazon Responsible For Hoverboard Fire
A Nashville family whose $1 million home was destroyed earlier this year in a fire caused by a hoverboard toy is now suing Amazon saying the retail giant knowingly sold a dangerous product.
November 3, 2016
Liability
Litigation
Tennessee
Insurer Sues Memphis Recording Studio, Tenants For Insurance Fraud
An insurance company that paid more than $2.8 million in claims after an arson fire damaged a historic music recording studio in Midtown now wants its money back.
October 31, 2016
Fraud
Litigation
Property
Tennessee
Blue Bell Issues Another Ice Cream Recall
The Brenham, Texas-based company is once again worried about potential listeria contamination. Blue Bell said Wednesday that it is recalling packages of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.
September 22, 2016
Subrogation
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Found On Road Dead? Ford Recalls 88K Cars For Stalling Issue
There are few things worse than having your relatively new car stall on you without warning. Thats why Ford is recalling nearly 90,000 vehicles with a defect that could leave your car dead and unable to restart in the middle of the road.
August 24, 2016
Excess & Surplus Lines
Subrogation
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Credit Card Payment Systems Hacked At HEI Hotels In 10 States
HEI Hotels & Resorts provided a list of hotels20 hotels in 10 states and the District of Columbiathat suffered a “security incident,” in which payment card data of customers may have been affected. “HEI was recently alerted to a potential security incident by its card processor,” HEI said in a statement released Friday.
August 16, 2016
Liability
Technology
California
Colorado
District Of Columbia
Florida
Illinois
Three Girls Fall From Fair Ride In Tennessee
Three girls were injured after they fell from a Ferris wheel at a county fair in eastern Tennessee, police said Monday evening. Greeneville police Capt. Tim Davis said a basket reportedly overturned on a Greene County Fair ride and dumped the occupants out.
August 9, 2016
Liability
Tennessee
GM Recalling Almost 290K Impalas Over Airbag Issue
Over the past two years, General Motors has recalled millions of vehicles over airbag issues, many related to Takata safety devices deploying too forcefully. Now, the company is recalling nearly 290,000 Chevrolet sedans for a different reason: the airbags might not deploy in a crash.
July 22, 2016
Auto
Subrogation
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Recall Of P.F. Changs Frozen Meals Expanded
After a long day, it can be nice to come home and grab a frozen meal from the fridge for a quick and easy dinner. If youve been stocking up on P.F. Changs frozen meals, you might want to double-check they arent included in a recently expanded recall of more than 195,000 pounds of frozen dinner product that may contain metal fragments.
July 18, 2016
Subrogation
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Massive Frozen Veggie Recall Involves Nations Largest Retailers
Nearly two months after CRF Frozen Foods set off a massive recall of vegetables thought to be contaminated with listeria and linked to at least two deaths and eight illnesses, a second frozen vegetable supplier National Frozen Food Corp. has initiated a separate recall over listeria concerns, and many of the recalled products are from the nations largest retailers.
June 21, 2016
Subrogation
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Frozen Produce Recall Involves Millions Of Packages, 3 Countries
Amid a massive frozen foods recall involving millions of packages of fruits and vegetables that were shipped to all 50 U.S. states, Canada and Mexico, authorities who want to stem the listeria-linked illnesses and deaths worry itll be difficult to get consumers to dig through their freezers and check for products they may have bought as far back as 2014.
May 20, 2016
Subrogation
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Poll Reveals 90% Of Businesses Experienced A Cyber Attack In The Last Year
Nine of ten businesses experienced at least one hacking incident in the past year, according to a survey of business risk managers released today by The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company (HSB), part of Munich Re.
May 17, 2016
Liability
Risk Management
Technology
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Newborn Suffers Burns From Hospital Equipment
A Middle Tennessee family said their newborn daughter suffered serious burns after a piece of equipment at the hospital malfunctioned. Apparently a screw fell out of a heat lamp and onto the baby, leaving serious burns on her neck and chest.
May 9, 2016
Liability
Litigation
Tennessee



