(March 21, 2017, 2:50 PM EDT) -- KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Two insurance companies were awarded summary judgment by a federal judge in Tennessee on March 15, after the judge found that policy holders’ guilty pleas to charges of insurance fraud and conspiracy to commit insurance fraud removed any obligations the companies had to pay for claims stemming from an August 2013 fire (State Automobile Mutual Insurance Company v. Fireman Fire Protection Inc., et al., No. 14-cv-229-TAV-HGB, E.D. Tenn., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 36704)....