Tennessee Code Title 56. Insurance § 56-3-101

(a) Every life insurance company doing business in this state, chartered by the laws of this state, shall be required for the better protection of the policyholders, to keep at all times the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) invested in bonds, securities, or mortgages on real estate for double the amount loaned, to be certified as safe and worth this amount by the commissioner.

(b) Insurance companies other than life, chartered by the laws of this state, shall not be allowed to transact business in this state unless possessed of at least fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) paid up, actual cash capital, or, in lieu of cash capital, a stock guaranty capital or surplus, above all liabilities, including reinsurance reserve, of not less than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000).

(c) This section shall not apply to companies organized under the laws of this state prior to May 11, 1895, and actually engaged in the transaction of insurance business.