Latest North Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
North Carolina Home Insurers to Appeal Rate Denial
Jan 20 2015 // Insurance companies aren’t giving up on their quest to raise premiumson North Carolina homeowners by an average of 25 percent, according to an industry spokesman. The group representing nearly 100 companies selling...
North Carolina Insurers Request Mobile Home Rate Changes
Jan 13 2015 // The North Carolina Rate Bureau has filed for mobile homeowners insurance rate changes with the North Carolina Department of Insurance (NCDOI). The N.C. Rate Bureau has requested an average statewide decrease of 0.8 percent...
Conservationists’ Lawsuit Challenges North Carolina Fracking Rules Panel
Jan 12 2015 // A lawsuit filed January 5 by conservationists asks that rules on fracking in North Carolina be thrown out, arguing the panel that developed the rules was formed in violation of the state Constitution. Lawyers representing...
North Carolina Home Insurers Weigh Appeal of Rate Denial
Jan 12 2015 // North Carolina property insurers are on hold while the industry-backed rating agency contemplates whether to appeal a decision by regulators denying a proposed 25.3 percent rate increase. The North Carolina Rate Bureau...
2015 Insurance Industry Meetings & Conventions Directory
Jan 12 2015 // Welcome to Insurance Journal‘s 2015 Insurance Industry Meetings and Conventions Directory. The information in this directory is taken from a larger database containing additional information on these and other...
Marsh Agency Acquires North Carolina’s Benefit Planning Group
Jan 8 2015 // Marsh & McLennan Agency has acquired The Benefit Planning Group Inc., a Durham, North Carolina-based employee benefit consulting firm. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1991, The Benefit Planning...
How States Rate on Insurance Regulation, ‘A’ to ‘F’
Jan 8 2015 // Vermont gets a grade of “A+” and California and North Carolina get grades of “F” in the annual report card on state insurance regulation issued by the free market think tank, The R Street...
North Carolina Home Insurers Weigh Appeal of Rate Denial
Jan 7 2015 // North Carolina property insurers are on hold while the industry rating agency contemplates whether to appeal a decision by regulators denying a proposed 25.3 percent rate increase. The North Carolina Rate Bureau made the...
Lighthouse Property Names Stewart as North Carolina Rep
Jan 6 2015 // Lighthouse Property Insurance Corp. has appointed Bill Stewart as its marketing representative for North Carolina. Stewart brings 16 years of insurance industry experience to Lighthouse. Before joining the Lighthouse team,...
Most Popular Insurance Journal Southeast Stories of 2014
Dec 31 2014 // In 2014, Southeast readers of InsuranceJournal.com made news about Florida insurers, courts and politics along with North Carolina storms and homeowners insurance among the most popular stories of the year. With an...
Bicyclist Seeks North Carolina Supreme Court Review of Damages Case
Dec 23 2014 // A Durham bicyclist hit by a car in 2009 is asking the North Carolina Supreme Court to allow her to collect damages from the motorist who struck her. The Herald-Sun of Durham reported that a judge overturned a jury’s...
North Carolina Denies Homeowners Insurance Rate Hike
Dec 21 2014 // North Carolina insurance companies that wanted to raise the cost of homeowners coverage by an average of roughly 25 percent were told Friday the state’s regulator is instead approving a zero overall change. Insurance...
North Carolina Couple Charged with Insurance Faud
Dec 19 2014 // A North Carolina couple has been charged with faking an accident and medical records in filing an insurance claim. Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin last week announced the arrests of James Arnold Seals, 42, of...
North Carolina Driver Charged with DWI Twice in Same Day
Dec 18 2014 // Officials in Asheville, North Carolina said a woman was charged with driving while impaired twice in the same day by the same sheriff’s deputy. Area media outlets report warrants at the Buncombe County...
North Carolina Approves Decreases in Voluntary, Residual Market Workers’ Comp Loss Costs for 2015
Dec 15 2014 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has approved workers’ compensation rates as filed that will go into effect April 1, 2015. There will be a 3.4 percent average decrease to loss costs for the...
North Carolina Triad Reports 14 Car Deaths in 9 Days
Dec 8 2014 // Law enforcement officials in the Triad area of North Carolina are urging motorists to drive safely after 14 people were killed in traffic accidents during a nine-day stretch in November. The Winston-Salem Journal reported...
North Carolina Authorities Investigating Fires at Beach Condos
Dec 8 2014 // Authorities said two condominiums units and a car have been set on fire in suspicious blazes in Carolina Beach. New Hanover County District Attorney Ben David told local media outlets that crews are still checking to make...
Atlantic Hurricane Season Spared All But North Carolina
Dec 2 2014 // Sunday marked the end of the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season during which North Carolina was the only state to have a storm hit the mainland. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the six-month season saw...
Ride, Home-Sharing Regulation Debate Reaches North Carolina
Dec 1 2014 // North Carolina lawmakers heard arguments recently for and against increasing regulation of digital services that allow people to sell car rides through a smartphone app or rent out rooms to travelers. Car services such as...
Five Arrested in Alleged Staged Accident Scam in North Carolina
Nov 30 2014 // North Carolina insurance officials reported the arrests of five people from Fayetville in an alleged insurance fraud scheme involving a staged auto accident in Cumberland County. Department of Insurance criminal...
