Latest North Carolina Headlines
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North Carolina Wants Irene Claims Review
Nov 21 2011 // Two North Carolina state officials want flood insurance claims adjusters to return to areas pummeled by Hurricane Irene to ensure home and business inspections are performed adequately so damage claims can be resolved as...
Johnson Brothers Head Towers Watson Reinsurance Office in North Carolina
Nov 15 2011 // In a move that expands its reinsurance brokerage business in the Southeast, global professional services company Towers Watson has established a brokerage operation in the Burlington-Greensboro, North Carolina...
Business Moves
Nov 7 2011 // The Doctors Co., FPIC Insurance Medical liability insurer The Doctors Co. has completed its previously-announced acquisition of FPIC Insurance Group Inc., a major provider of health care liability insurance in Florida,...
FEMA Agrees to Re-Inspect North Carolina Homes
Nov 4 2011 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency says its flood insurance arm will re-inspect more eastern North Carolina homes and businesses damaged during Hurricane Irene after owners complained claims adjusters weren’t...
Feds Agree to Flood Insurance Reinspections in North Carolina
Nov 4 2011 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency says its flood insurance arm will reinspect more eastern North Carolina homes and businesses damaged during Hurricane Irene after owners complained claims adjusters weren’t...
North Carolina Officials Want Answers on Flood Claims
Nov 3 2011 // Two North Carolina state officials want flood insurance claims adjusters to return to areas pummeled by Hurricane Irene to ensure home and business inspections are performed adequately so damage claims can be resolved as...
TowneBank Acquires North Carolina’s Stanton Taylor Agency
Oct 13 2011 // Hampton Roads, Virginia-based TowneBank has acquired the Stanton Taylor Agency, a Raleigh, North Carolina agency that provides insurance and risk management services throughout Raleigh and eastern North Carolina. The...
Warning: Insecticides Can Be More Dangerous Than Bedbugs
Sep 26 2011 // Bedbugs don’t make people sick. But the poisons used to kill them can. A new government study has found that dozens of Americans have fallen ill from the insecticides, and a North Carolina woman died after using 18...
North Carolina Defends Workplace Safety Record as Inspections Drop
Sep 19 2011 // Twenty years after the worst industrial accident in North Carolina history, there are signs that progress in worker safety made after the deaths of 25 people in a chicken plant fire is beginning to wane. The Charlotte...
North Carolina Senate Panel Learns Hurricane Irene’s Costs
Sep 16 2011 // The state agency overseeing North Carolina’s response to Hurricane Irene estimates the price tag on helping individuals and governments recover from Hurricane Irene so far at about $125 million. The Division of...
North Carolina County to Buy Flood-Damaged Homes
Sep 9 2011 // Mecklenburg County in North Carolina plans to buy more than a dozen homes damaged by flooding last month. County commissioners saidthey plan to spend up to $2 million as part of an effort to remove homes located in...
North Carolina County Recovers From Trio of Disasters
Sep 7 2011 // Driving along the back roads of Bertie County, it’s hard sometimes to tell one disaster’s damage from another. That huge old tree, its limbs chopped and stacked after falling across a road, was definitely...
North Carolina Defends Workplace Safety Record as Inspections Drop
Sep 6 2011 // Twenty years after the worst industrial accident in North Carolina history, there are signs that progress in worker safety made after the deaths of 25 people in a chicken plant fire is beginning to wane. The Charlotte...
Update: Irene State by State Estimates
Sep 2 2011 // Catastrophe modeling company Eqecat, whose software is used by insurers to predict exposure to disasters, estimated the economic losses in the United States from Hurricane Irene at more than $10 billion. Irene was the 10th...
North Carolina’s Hickory Point: Small Towns, Big Floods
Aug 30 2011 // For Mavis Powers, a lifetime of work and keepsakes were washed away when Hurricane Irene drove a 13-foot storm surge up Muddy Creek and through her home. The 77-year-old doll maker and collector held her head Sunday as she...
Tobacco, Poultry Among North Carolina Farm Losses from Irene
Aug 30 2011 // North Carolina farmers felt the financial weight of Hurricane Irene’s winds and heavy rains Sunday as inspections following the storm revealed damage to field crops, poultry and other agricultural businesses. State...
U.S. to Reimburse States for Most of Irene’s Damage
Aug 29 2011 // Hurricane Irene could cost U.S. state and local governments billions of dollars in damages, but funds from the federal government might ultimately cover much of this expense. It is too early to estimate the cost of the...
Insured Losses from Hurricane Irene in Carolinas Could Reach $400 Million
Aug 28 2011 // Hurricane Irene caused between $200 million and $400 million in insured losses in the Carolinas, catastrophe modeling company Eqecat said on Sunday. At 7:30 a.m. ET Saturday, Aug. 27, Irene made its first landfall just...
Hurricane Irene Update: 50 Million People Could Be Affected
Aug 26 2011 // Parts of the southeastern United States were already experiencing dangerous swells and rip tides Thursday as Hurricane Irene exited the Bahamas. On Friday afternoon, ahead of Hurricane Irene’s forecasted arrival in...
East Coast Cities, Resorts Prepare for Irene
Aug 26 2011 // North Carolina braced Friday for a direct hit from Hurricane Irene, cities along the U.S. east coast were on alert and millions of beach goers cut short vacations to escape the powerful storm. With more than 50 million...
