Latest North Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
N.C. Commissioner Goodwin Seeking Apology Over Health Official’s Remark
May 14 2013 // North Carolina’s Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin is publicly calling for an apology from the state’s Department of Health and Human Services Secretary over a remark in which the health official allegedly...
North Carolina Underreports Workplace Deaths: Study
May 3 2013 // A study by workplace safety advocates shows that more workers die on the job in North Carolina than the state reports. The Charlotte Observer reported that the state Labor Department recorded 35 workers killed on the job...
North Carolina Getting $211M from Cigarette Lawsuit Settlement
Apr 29 2013 // North Carolina’s annual share of payments from top cigarette companies paying for smoking-related health care costs is $211 million. North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper notified Gov. Pat McCrory and...
North Carolina Senate Bill Aims to End Local Building Design Standards
Apr 25 2013 // Some North Carolina lawmakers are pushing legislation that forbids local governments from adopting their own building design standards in most cases. The Senate bill that passed the Commerce Committee on Tuesday says that...
North Carolina Senate OKs Insurance Laws That Could Mean Savings
Apr 23 2013 // A pair of automobile insurance bills doesn’t overhaul how premiums are set in North Carolina but could provide some cost savings for consumers. The North Carolina Senate approved the legislation by wide margins last...
North Carolina Auto Insurance Rating Bill Dies in Committee
Apr 18 2013 // Legislation to overhaul North Carolina’s automobile insurance system was rejected Tuesday by a House committee after Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin and other speakers argued it would raise premiums for...
North Carolina’s Auto Insurance System Badly Needs an Upgrade
Apr 16 2013 // It’s easy to understand why many North Carolinians are skeptical of proposals to change how the state regulates auto insurance. In a state where homeowners insurance rates are fairly high, and auto insurance...
Ratings Recap: National Lloyds, Tar Heel Re, World Insurance, Kentucky Growers
Apr 10 2013 // A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the issuer credit rating (ICR) to “a” from “a+” and affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A’ (Excellent) of National Lloyds Insurance Company as...
North Carolina’s Strickland Insurance Acquires Virginia Transportation Underwriter
Apr 8 2013 // Strickland Insurance Brokers of Goldsboro, North Carolina has acquired the assets of Palmyra, Virginia-based Tower Transportation Underwriters Inc. Tower Underwriters, owned by Fred Black, is a managing general agency in...
North Carolina Tax Reformers Seek Code in Keeping with New Economy
Apr 8 2013 // Republican legislative leaders and Gov. Pat McCrory brimmed with optimism early this year about prospects for passing a North Carolina tax code overhaul that most agree has been needed for decades. Still, they didn’t...
Taylor Joins Ownership Ranks at North Carolina’s Senn Dunn Insurance
Apr 3 2013 // Jennifer Taylor is a new partner owner of North Carolina’s Senn Dunn Insurance. With the addition of Taylor, Senn Dunn said it now has 22 owner partners as part of its perpetuation plan. Having owners partners is a...
North Carolina Bill Would End Motorcycle Helmet Mandate for Adults
Mar 28 2013 // Legislation that would end North Carolina’s mandatory helmet law and make it optional for riders age 21 and over won support from the majority in a divided state House panel this week. On a voice vote, the House...
North Carolina’s ‘Other’ Auto Insurance Market
Mar 27 2013 // I’ve already covered in these pages some of the things the editorial pages of North Carolina’s leading newspapers are getting wrong about S.B. 154, legislation to modernize the state’s system of setting...
North Carolina Wins MetLife Jobs
Mar 25 2013 // MetLife Inc. announced it will move 2,600 jobs from offices in four Northeast states and California to lower-cost locations in two North Carolina cities, while also getting tax breaks and other incentives that could reach...
North Carolina Approves 7% Home Insurance Rate Increase
Mar 25 2013 // North Carolina is allowing companies to raise homeowners’ insurance rates by a statewide average of seven percent a year starting in July. Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin agreed to the increase for less than the...
Transitioning Jobs at MetLife
Mar 25 2013 // Insurance giant MetLife Inc. recently announced a plan to move some 2,600 positions into newly created facilities in North Carolina by the end of 2015. And this means a lot of folks in the Northeast could be facing some...
Some Massachusetts MetLife Employees Take Work-From-Home Option
Mar 19 2013 // Insurance giant MetLife Inc. recently announced it will be transitioning some 2,600 jobs from five Northeastern states and California to new U.S. retail and technology hubs in North Carolina. The company’s decision...
40 Years Later, North Carolina Policyholder Admits False Claim
Mar 18 2013 // Lingering guilt may have been what moved someone who filed an insurance claim 40 years ago to come clean with a Gastonia, North Carolina insurance agency. The Gaston Gazette reported that whoever took a $280 claim check in...
North Carolina Governor Says He Had No Role in $100M Offer for MetLife Move
Mar 14 2013 // Gov. Pat McCrory said this week he had no role in a deal partly brokered by his former employer that promised MetLife Inc. about $100 million in potential tax breaks and other incentives to move thousands of jobs to North...
Feds Bust $100M North Carolina Crop Insurance Fraud Scheme
Mar 13 2013 // Federal investigators have unraveled a massive scheme among dozens of insurance agents, claims adjusters, brokers and farmers in eastern North Carolina to steal at least $100 million from the government-backed program that...
