Latest North Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
North Carolina Security Firm in Anti-Piracy Meetings in London
Dec 3 2008 // North Carolina-based private security contractor Blackwater Worldwide is meeting with shipping and insurance companies this week to describe what the company can do to protect vessels traveling through the volatile Gulf of...
Insurers Urge Surcharges, Reforms to Fix North Carolina Beach Plan
Dec 3 2008 // Property/casualty insurers are urging North Carolina officials to impose surcharges on policies in the state’s residual market property insurer, the Beach Plan, and take other financing and mitigation steps to...
New North Carolina Insurance Chief Agrees Beach Plan Needs Help
Dec 1 2008 // North Carolina’s new insurance chief agrees with insurance industry critics that the state’s backup wind insurance pool, known as the Beach Plan, needs shoring up. “I have described our Beach Plan or...
Regulator-Elect
Nov 30 2008 // It’s a select community: only 11 state insurance commissioners are elected rather than appointed. Wayne Goodwin is now one of the 11. He won the Nov. 4 election to be North Carolina’s regulator, succeeding Jim...
A Good Win in North Carolina for Experience
Nov 30 2008 // New Chief Plans a Blog, Statewide Agent Meetings and a Solution for Coastal Property Owners and Insurers On Nov. 4, Democrat Wayne Goodwin won election as North Carolina Insurance Commissioner with 52 percent of the vote,...
Former North Carolina TV Anchor Settles Wrongful Death Suit
Nov 21 2008 // A former North Carolina television news anchor has reached a settlement in a wrongful-death lawsuit involving the family of a man he ran over and killed while driving drunk. The Winston-Salem Journal reported that the...
North Carolina Urged to Reform Beach Plan Before It’s Too Late
Nov 19 2008 // Another insurance trade group has joined in urging North Carolina officials to reform the state’s coastal insurance pool before it grows so big it swamps smaller insurance companies. The anticipated growth of the...
North Carolina Still Tallying Costs of Deadly Weekend Tornado
Nov 19 2008 // North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley said more than 60 homes were either damaged or destroyed by a fatal tornado in North Carolina over the weekend, but the financial costs still were unclear. Easley met with officials in Kenly...
North Carolinians to Review Watauga County Flood Insurance Maps
Nov 18 2008 // On Monday, Nov. 24, the residents and business community of Watauga County will be able to review and ask questions about preliminary copies of newly updated flood insurance rate maps for the county which drains into the...
Goodwin Elected to Succeed Long as North Carolina Commissioner
Nov 16 2008 // Democrat Wayne Goodwin has been elected as North Carolina’s insurance commissioner, winning the race to succeed his boss and long-time commissioner Jim Long. With 96 percent of the precincts reporting, Goodwin had...
People
Nov 16 2008 // The Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina elected Neil T. Annas as the association’s new president for the 2008 to 2009 term. Annas, president of Granite Insurance Agency Inc. in Granite Falls, N.C., was...
North Carolina, Florida Join States Lowering Workers’ Comp Rates
Nov 16 2008 // North Carolina and Florida have joined the ranks of states where workers’ compensation costs are falling. North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long approved a North Carolina Rate Bureau filing for a 4.4 percent...
Gallagher Acquires Roberts & Roberts Insurance in North Carolina
Nov 6 2008 // Insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. reports it has acquired Roberts & Roberts Insurance Service, Inc. in Greensboro, North Carolina. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Formed in 1994, Roberts...
Goodwin Wins North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Race
Nov 6 2008 // Democrat Wayne Goodwin has been elected as North Carolina’s insurance commissioner, winning the race to succeed his boss and long-time commissioner Jim Long. With 96 percent of the precincts reporting, Goodwin had...
Insurers’ Study Warns on North Carolina Beach Plan Deficit
Nov 2 2008 // The insurance industry has unveiled results of a report finding that the North Carolina Insurance Underwriting Association, a.k.a. the Beach Plan, is not financially prepared to weather a major storm. According to the...
North Carolina Thwarts Alleged Auto Accident Ring
Nov 2 2008 // North Carolina Department of Insurance investigators said they arrested five Halifax County residents for their roles in what they are calling an auto insurance fraud ring that netted the accused more than $25,550 in...
$7.5 Million Settlement Offered in North Carolina Plant Fire
Oct 31 2008 // A $7.5 million settlement has been proposed for Apex, N.C. residents who evacuated homes and businesses when a chemical waste depot exploded two years ago. Attorneys for the residents and EQ Industrial Services outlined...
North Carolina Independent Agents Announce 2008 Award Recipients
Oct 29 2008 // The Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina announced its 2008 industry award winners during the 111th IIANC Annual Convention held Oct. 12-15 in Asheville, NC. The 2008 Agent of the Year is J. Rives...
AIG Settles North Carolina Injury Case for $18 Million
Oct 29 2008 // American International Group, the insurance giant rescued by $85 billion in federal loans last month, has agreed to an $18 million settlement with the father of a disabled former Raleigh man. AIG’s decision to...
North Carolina-based TriSure Grows, Expands Office Space
Oct 21 2008 // To accommodate growth driven by more employees and new service capabilities, Raleigh, N.C.-based TriSure expanded its office space at Rexwoods Center IV. TriSure’s employee count increased by 36 percent since 2005....
