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The Southern Methodist Publishing House building in Downtown Nashville, home to the University of Tennessee at Nashville from 1957 to the 1970s. The University of Tennessee at Nashville was a branch campus of the UT system which existed from 1968 to 1979.
Consumer Insurance Services: Responsible for educating consumers about insurance and resolving insurance-related conflicts. Insurance: Responsible for enforcing the state's insurance laws. Regulatory Boards: Responsible for regulating and licensing many different businesses and professions.
The William R. Snodgrass Tennessee Tower (also known as the Tennessee Tower) is a skyscraper in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, that houses Tennessee government offices. The tower was built for the National Life and Accident Insurance Company and served as its National Life Center until the State of Tennessee acquired it on January 3, 1994.
The company's name was chosen because, at that time, Nashville was in the southwestern part of the United States. Founded by the Baptist minister James Robinson Graves , Southwestern originally published The Tennessee Baptist , [ 3 ] a Southern Baptist newspaper, and religious booklets which were sold by mail for 20¢ and 30¢ each.
When American General acquired longtime Nashville rival National Life and Accident Insurance Company in a hostile takeover it implemented plans to merge the two companies. By the end of the 1980s this had been largely accomplished, and the L&C Tower, still a Nashville landmark but no longer its tallest building, was sold to outside interests.
The University of Tennessee system is governed by the Board of Trustees of the University of Tennessee. After the passage of the UT FOCUS Act in 2018, the board is made up of 12 trustees. These trustees include one ex officio voting member, the Commissioner of Agriculture , 10 voting members appointed by the Governor , and a single non-voting ...
In 1901, Wills, along with C.A. Craig and C.R. Clements purchased another insurance company, the "National Sick and Accident Company" on Nashville's courthouse steps at auction for $17,250. [6] They formed a new company called the National Life and Accident Insurance Company. Typical early products of the newly formed company included a policy ...
Over the next eighty-five years, the department made a final name change and increased regulatory responsibilities to cover trust companies, licensed business and industrial development corporations (BIDCOs), industrial loan and thrift offices, insurance premium finance companies, mortgage companies, check cashers, deferred presentment services ...