Latest North Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
N.C. Case to Result in $404M Savings, 2.5 Percent Overall Auto Rate Decrease
Feb 1 2006 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long has signed an order requiring a 2.5 percent reduction in private passenger auto rates and a 6 percent reduction in motorcycle liability rates, effective May...
Dole Tells Banking Committee: Insurance Reforms Should Not Disproportionately Affect North Carolina
Jan 26 2006 // U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole told the Senate Banking Committee on proposals to reform the National Flood Insurance Program, meeting in Washington that North Carolinians recognize their vulnerability to flooding and are...
Barker Joins Findley Davies’ Charlotte, N.C. Office
Jan 16 2006 // Adam S. Barker has been named senior consultant and practice leader in Charlotte, N.C. for Findley Davies of Toledo, Ohio responsible for health and group benefits in North and South Carolina. Barker was most recently...
2005, a Year to Remember: Busiest Hurricane Season of the Century for United States
Dec 29 2005 // The hurricane season made 2005 a year-to-remember, with the southeast encountering the busiest hurricane season of the century, with 26 named storms and 13 hurricanes, meteorologists used up the list of 21 proper names and...
Police: N.C. Insurance Man Shot Partners Because of Business Dispute
Dec 29 2005 // The president of a small North Carolina insurance agency accused of shooting his two partners was upset because they wanted to sell the business, authorities said. James T. Tedesco, 37, has been charged with two counts of...
Asheville, N.C. Agency Owner Arrested for Attempted Murder
Dec 27 2005 // Jim Tedesco, 37, was charged on Tuesday morning with two counts of attempted first degree murder from a double shooting Monday at his east Asheville, N.C. business. Tedesco made his first court appearance Tuesday morning...
Insurance House Expands Durham, N.C. Deering & Assoc. Office
Dec 22 2005 // Insurance House of Marietta, Ga. has opened a new Durham, N.C. office for Deering & Assoc., its wholly-owned subsidiary. The move more than doubles the size of the original office. Personal lines will be managed from...
North Carolina Pro Athletes Win Workers’ Comp Court Cases
Nov 21 2005 // A handful of former Carolina Panthers players who were injured playing football have won their cases before the North Carolina Court of Appeals and one before the North Carolina Supreme Court. Jim Lore, a Raleigh attorney...
North Carolina Pro Athletes Win Workers’ Comp Court Cases
Nov 20 2005 // A handful of former Carolina Panthers players who were injured playing football have won their cases before the North Carolina Court of Appeals and one before the North Carolina Supreme Court. Jim Lore, a Raleigh attorney...
ACE USA Opens Charlotte, N.C. Office; Abraham Named Branch Manager
Nov 15 2005 // The opening of a Charlotte, N.C. branch office and the assignment of Rich Abraham as its branch manager has been announced by ACE USA of Philadelphia, the U.S.-based retail operating division of the ACE Group of...
People & Places
Nov 7 2005 // Cathy DeCoulaz Jim Shevlin has been named assistant vice president and regional business development manager for ACE USA’s Southeast Region. ACE USA is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pa. Marta Reeves Based in...
North Carolina Pro Athletes Win Workers’ Comp Court Cases
Nov 6 2005 // A handful of former Carolina Panthers players who were injured playing football have won their cases before the North Carolina Court of Appeals and one before the North Carolina Supreme Court. Jim Lore, a Raleigh attorney...
People
Nov 6 2005 // Jim Shevlin has been named assistant vice president and regional business development manager for ACE USA’s Southeast Region. ACE USA is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pa. Based in Atlanta, Shevlin will manage...
AGR-Lite Insurance Program Available for North Carolina Farmers
Oct 28 2005 // North Carolina farmers seeking whole-farm revenue protection insurance can now, through the AGR-Lite Insurance Program, guarantee a portion of their farm income and insure crops that previously were not covered under...
N.C. Mutual Life Insurance Co. NCDOI Ink Multi-State Settlement
Oct 24 2005 // A settlement has been reached between the North Carolina Department of Insurance and the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, the nation’s largest minority owned insurer, based in Durham. Insurance...
News Briefs
Oct 17 2005 // ALABAMA AIIA Conference, Educational Sessions The Alabama Independent Insurance Agents has scheduled five upcoming seminars in Mobile, Birming-ham and Huntsville. Oct. 19, Small and Rural Agents Conference, two topics,...
N.C. Former Panthers Players Score Touchdown In Workers’ Comp Court
Oct 14 2005 // A handful of former Carolina Panthers players who were injured playing football have won their cases before the North Carolina Court of Appeals and one before the North Carolina Supreme Court. Jim Lore, a Raleigh attorney...
North Carolina Big ‘I’ Names Gastineau ‘Agent of the Year’
Oct 14 2005 // John Gastineau was named the Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina’s “Agent of the Year,” during IIANC’s Oct. 9 to 12 annual conference in Myrtle Beach, S.C. The annual award recognizes the...
N.C. PEO Operator Pleads Guilty to Mail Fraud
Oct 13 2005 // North Carolina’s first criminal case involving a professional employer organization that provides outsourced personnel services to other businesses has been resolved by the Department of Insurance. Insurance...
Heavy Rains Force Eastern U.S. Evacuations; Four Lives Lost
Oct 11 2005 // Prolonged, heavy rain caused flooding from North Carolina to New Hampshire over the weekend, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate, knocking out electricity, weakening dams and making roads impassable. At least four...
