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North Carolina Repair Shop Owner, Customer Charged with Fraud

Sep 30 2010 // A North Carolina automobile repair shop owner and one of his customers have been arrested and charged with insurance fraud. State officials report that John Marvin Smith, III, of Robersonville, and Fronzie Griffin, of...

North Carolina Agent Accused of Embezzlement

Sep 23 2010 // Godfrey Gray Bell, Sr., of Greenville, N.C., has been arrested and charged with one count of embezzlement by an insurance agent, according to state officials. Department of Insurance criminal investigators allege that from...

North Carolina Blue Cross to Refund $155 Million to Policyholders

Sep 22 2010 // North Carolina’s largest health insurer will refund $155 million to more than 215,000 individual policyholders as a result of the Affordable Care Act that took effect earlier this year, the company said. Individual...

North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Insurers Seek Slight Increase

Sep 20 2010 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has received the 2010 workers compensation rate filings from the North Carolina Rate Bureau, the organization that represents the state’s workers compensation...

Hurricane Earl Proves Kinder, Gentler Than First Feared

Sep 20 2010 // Risk modelers say Hurricane Earl caused very minimal damage as it passed by the East Coast and agents in the hardest hit area of the United States, the Outer Banks of North Carolina, say they have been receiving few...

Allstate Refunds $680,718 in North Carolina

Sep 16 2010 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that 1,803 Allstate Insurance Company policy holders in North Carolina will receive refunds totaling $680,718.22 after a Department of Insurance complaint...

North Carolina Agent Arrested for Embezzlement

Sep 16 2010 // Timothy Michael Moore, 40, of Fayetteville, N.C., has been arrested on four counts of embezzlement by an insurance agent, state Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced today. North Carolina Department of Insurance...

North Carolina Association Names Young Agent of the Year

Sep 16 2010 // The Young Agents Committee of the Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina (IIANC) announced the association’s Young Agent of the Year, Broker of the Year and Company of the Year Awards for 2010. These awards...

North Carolina Apple Farmers Like Better Crop Insurance

Sep 10 2010 // North Carolina apple growers say they are happy to learn about proposed changes in federal crop insurance that would better protect them from a catastrophic loss. The Times-News of Hendersonville reported about two dozen...

Businesses Often Consider Weather Before Going to North Carolina

Sep 9 2010 // When hurricanes and tropical storms hit the North Carolina coast, it can give pause to residents and also to those considering moving close to the ocean. But does it do the same thing to businesses? Coastal geography...

North Carolina Rate Bureau Requests Workers’ Comp Increase

Sep 9 2010 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has received the 2010 workers compensation rate filings from the North Carolina Rate Bureau, the organization that represents the state’s workers compensation...

North Carolina Expects Little Insurance Loss from Earl

Sep 8 2010 // Risk modelers say Hurricane Earl caused extremely minimal damage as it passed by the East Coast and agents in the hardest hit area of the United States, the Outer Banks of North Carolina, are receiving few...

Earl Weakens, Pounds North Carolina Islands, Heads for Massachusetts

Sep 3 2010 // Hurricane Earl battered North Carolina’s coast with rain, winds and waves Friday and swirled up the U.S. eastern seaboard toward New England and Canada as a weakened but still dangerous storm. The impact of the...

North Carolina Commissioner Urges Preparation

Sep 2 2010 // With Hurricane Earl on a path to skim the barrier islands and the coast of North Carolina beginning this evening, state Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin is reminding all North Carolinians to take precautions before the...

Hurricane Preparations Intense, Weather Calm

Sep 2 2010 // On Thursday, with Hurricane Earl about 250 miles to the south, and on a trajectory to skim the coast of North Carolina, Larry Whitt of Outer Banks Insurance said the sun was shining in Kill Devil Hills. There was no wind,...

FEMA, East Coast States Ready for Earl

Sep 2 2010 // As Hurricane Earl prepares to approach North Carolina tonight, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) says it is preparing for the storm and supporting state and local officials along the East Coast as they work to...

Hurricane Earl Weakens Slightly; Churns Toward East Coast

Sep 1 2010 // Visitors and some residents evacuated from low-lying vacation islands off the North Carolina coast Wednesday as Hurricane Earl bore down on the U.S. eastern seaboard, churning up dangerous swells. Earl, still a major...

Hurricane Earl Causes Evacuation of North Carolina Coast

Sep 1 2010 // The threat of Hurricane Earl is prompting many to flee North Carolina’s vacation islands and federal authorities are warning residents along the Eastern seaboard to be ready to evacuate, the Associated Press is...

North Carolina’s AmWINS Sells Fresno Office

Aug 31 2010 // Charlotte, N.C.-based AmWINS Group, Inc. and Crouse and Associates Insurance Services are pleased to announce that they have reached an agreement for Crouse and Associates to acquire AmWINS’ Fresno office effective...

Twenty-Two Escape Fire in N.C.

Aug 19 2010 // Authorities say 22 people living in a house for migrant workers in western North Carolina escaped a fire that appears to have started on a back porch. The Asheville Citizen-Times reported the fire began early Tuesday in...