Latest North Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
N.C. Could Face $43 Million Shortfall in Insurance Plan
Dec 13 2007 // North Carolina might be looking at a $43 million shortfall with a children’s health insurance program next fall if Congress doesn’t resolve a stalemate. Congress and President Bush have been at odds over...
N.C.-Based BB&T Insurance Services to Acquire Georgia Agency
Dec 13 2007 // BB&T Insurance Services announced plans to expand its metro Atlanta operation with the acquisition of Ott & Co. of Alpharetta, Ga. Founded in 1978, Ott & Company is a full-service employee benefits brokerage...
N.C. Firefighters Ask Building Code Council for Sprinkler Requirements
Dec 12 2007 // With the deaths of seven South Carolina college students in a North Carolina beach house fire still fresh, firefighters’ groups hope state regulators will make sprinkler systems mandatory in large or multi-story...
N.C. Insurance Agent Arrested on Embezzlement Charges
Dec 10 2007 // North Carolina officials arrested a Linwood, N.C., insurance agent charging her with with five counts of embezzlement by an insurance agent and three counts of providing false statements on an insurance...
Employer Organization Insolvent, Could Affect Up To 3,000 N.C. Jobs
Dec 5 2007 // North Carolina Insurance Department officials denied an ongoing licensure request of Castleton Group Inc., a professional employer organization based in Raleigh, “due to its hazardous financial condition.” The...
N.C. Insurance Agent Arrested for Allegedly Pocketing Premium Payments
Nov 21 2007 // North Carolina officials arrested a Fayetteville, N.C., woman and charged her with three counts of embezzlement by an insurance agent, according to Insurance Commissioner Jim Long Jessica Rachelle Forde, 32, worked as a...
N.C. Engineering Firm to be Dropped from Miss. Katrina Insurance Suits
Nov 15 2007 // North Carolina-based Forensic Analysis and Engineering Corp., has reached a settlement with lawyers who have filed hundreds of lawsuits against State Farm Insurance Cos. on behalf of policyholders whose claims were denied...
N.C.’s Operation Slow Down to ‘Crack Down’ on Speeders, Enhance Safety
Nov 13 2007 // North Carolina State Highway Patrol and the Governor’s Highway Safety Program are kicking off Operation Slow Down/No Need 2 Speed to catch speeders on North Carolina’s highways. Local law enforcement agencies...
N.C. Building Code Officials: No Changes Pending
Nov 12 2007 // North Carolina State building code officials won’t consider expanding changes to building codes for townhouse soffits unless a report shows it may have been a factor in the beach-house fire that killed seven college...
Insurance Adjusters Working at Site of N.C. Beach House Fire
Nov 2 2007 // The mayor of Ocean Isle Beach says insurance adjusters are on site at the scene of a burned-out North Carolina beach house where seven college students died. Mayor Debbie Smith says the town will keep a police officer...
Gov. Wants More Help for N.C. Farmers Suffering from Drought
Oct 31 2007 // North Carolina field crops are predicted to suffer great losses as a result of the state’s drought conditions. Soybean yields are projected to be at 20 bushels per acre, which will be the lowest yield since 1983....
Workers’ Comp Costs to Rise 1.6 Percent in N.C. Voluntary Market
Oct 29 2007 // A settlement agreement between the North Carolina Department of Insurance and the North Carolina Rate Bureau, the organization that represents the state’s workers’ compensation insurance companies, will raise...
News Currents
Oct 27 2007 // N.C.’s Rep. Watt leads debate in Congress against credit scoring The latest skirmish in the battle between politicians who want to eliminate insurance-based credit scoring and insurers that say they need it to do...
After Crop Damage, Drought-parched North Carolina Sees Rain
Oct 25 2007 // A drought report released Tuesday says 17 North Carolina water systems serving hundreds of thousands of residents are near a crisis-level shortage. The lengthy drought has strained North Carolina’s water systems and...
N.C. Woman Arrested for Insurance Fraud
Oct 25 2007 // N.C. Insurance enforcement officials arrested a Wake County woman, charging her with one count of obtaining property by false pretense. Seung Yon Yu Johnson, of Raleigh was processed at the Guilford County jail and...
Commonwealth Underwriters Names V.P. for North Carolina
Oct 19 2007 // Commonwealth Underwriters Ltd., a regional Excess & Surplus Lines Broker based in Richmond, Va., has appointed G. Stephen Allen as vice president of North Carolina operations, based in Raleigh. Prior to joining...
Officials Say 2,300 N.C. Drivers Daily Violate School Bus Law
Oct 16 2007 // North Carolina state troopers will watch this week for motorists who fail to stop when a school bus lets out children on state roads. Highway Patrol commander Fletcher Clay said authorities will charge drivers who try to...
N.C. Workers’ Comp Provider Names Regional Director
Oct 15 2007 // North Carolina-based Key Risk, a provider of workers’ compensation insurance products and services for employers throughout the Eastern U.S., has named assistant vice president Glen R. “Chip” Marohn...
N.C. Drought Spreads to 55 Counties, Gov. Calls for Collaboration
Oct 9 2007 // Federal drought maps show that exceptional drought has spread from North Carolina’s eight westernmost counties to 55 counties in the mountains and Piedmont and now stretches from the foothills and Charlotte to parts...
First Guard Insurance Adds N.C. and N.J. to License List
Sep 28 2007 // Venice, Fla.-based First Guard Insurance Co., will begin writing business direct in North Carolina and New Jersey effective Jan. 1, 2008. Currently, FGIC is licensed in twenty-three states, primarily concentrated east of...
