Latest North Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
People
Nov 6 2005 // Jim Shevlin has been named assistant vice president and regional business development manager for ACE USA’s Southeast Region. ACE USA is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pa. Based in Atlanta, Shevlin will manage...
AGR-Lite Insurance Program Available for North Carolina Farmers
Oct 28 2005 // North Carolina farmers seeking whole-farm revenue protection insurance can now, through the AGR-Lite Insurance Program, guarantee a portion of their farm income and insure crops that previously were not covered under...
N.C. Mutual Life Insurance Co. NCDOI Ink Multi-State Settlement
Oct 24 2005 // A settlement has been reached between the North Carolina Department of Insurance and the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, the nation’s largest minority owned insurer, based in Durham. Insurance...
News Briefs
Oct 17 2005 // ALABAMA AIIA Conference, Educational Sessions The Alabama Independent Insurance Agents has scheduled five upcoming seminars in Mobile, Birming-ham and Huntsville. Oct. 19, Small and Rural Agents Conference, two topics,...
N.C. Former Panthers Players Score Touchdown In Workers’ Comp Court
Oct 14 2005 // A handful of former Carolina Panthers players who were injured playing football have won their cases before the North Carolina Court of Appeals and one before the North Carolina Supreme Court. Jim Lore, a Raleigh attorney...
North Carolina Big ‘I’ Names Gastineau ‘Agent of the Year’
Oct 14 2005 // John Gastineau was named the Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina’s “Agent of the Year,” during IIANC’s Oct. 9 to 12 annual conference in Myrtle Beach, S.C. The annual award recognizes the...
N.C. PEO Operator Pleads Guilty to Mail Fraud
Oct 13 2005 // North Carolina’s first criminal case involving a professional employer organization that provides outsourced personnel services to other businesses has been resolved by the Department of Insurance. Insurance...
Heavy Rains Force Eastern U.S. Evacuations; Four Lives Lost
Oct 11 2005 // Prolonged, heavy rain caused flooding from North Carolina to New Hampshire over the weekend, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate, knocking out electricity, weakening dams and making roads impassable. At least four...
Sr. Deputy N.C. Commissioner Stepping Down Oct. 21
Oct 7 2005 // Boyce Oglesby, a senior deputy commissioner of North Carolina Insurance Department is stepping down this month after an audit questioned spending and decisions related to a trust for insolvent insurance companies. Oglesby,...
Wake Forest Study Reveals High Rate of N.C. Poultry Farmer Injuries
Sep 28 2005 // A survey of poultry workers in western North Carolina reveals high rates of injuries, as well as significant differences among poultry companies in numbers of injuries and how workers view company emphasis on safety. The...
N.C. Falls to Fifth Lowest Auto Insurance Rates in Nation
Sep 26 2005 // Insurance Commissioner Jim Long has announced in Raleigh, N.C. that the state now ranks as having the fifth lowest auto insurance rates in the nation, an improvement of three places over last year’s ranking as the...
N.C. Felons Bonded Out, Apprehended on Additional Fraud Charges
Sep 23 2005 // Terry Tew and John Daniel Clapper, both of Clinton, N.C. have been apprehended by the Sampson County, N.C. Sheriff’s Office for taking out fraudulent insurance policies on water craft and several pieces of heavy...
N.C. Audit Reveals Insurance Commission’s Questionable Expenses
Sep 21 2005 // A state audit has found Insurance Commissioner Jim Long and his deputies should have more closely monitored questionable expenses from a trust for insolvent insurance companies on meals, travel, computers and other...
N.C. Agriculture Losses $19.6M From Hurricane Ophelia
Sep 21 2005 // Hurricane Ophelia resulted in damages to North Carolina’s agricultural industry amounting to $19.6 million, based on reports tabulated from 13 counties. According to the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and...
N.C. FARMERS RECEIVE ASSISTANCE
Sep 19 2005 // North Carolina farmers who suffered flooding losses from last year’s hurricanes will soon receive disaster-assistance grants from the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. The checks issued...
N.C. Coastal Residents Begin Filing Claims From Ophelia
Sep 19 2005 // North Carolina insurance companies began taking claims on Friday from coastal residents who lost property due to Hurricane Ophelia and reported claims varied from minor to severe. Several carriers, like Allstate, had moved...
Ophelia Drenched N.C., Minor Damages Reported
Sep 16 2005 // After drenching the southeast coast of North Carolina and cutting off power to 100,000 homes, Hurricane Ophelia has been downgraded to a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph. Ophelia’s winds and rain...
BB&T Consolidates Greensboro, N.C. Insurance Agencies
Sep 16 2005 // BB&T Insurance Services will consolidate two Greensboro operations, BB&T Insurance Services of the Triad and BB&T-Professional Benefits Management, the company announced. The combined BB&T Insurance...
Hurricane Ophelia Lashes Cape Lookout, N.C.; Serious Flooding, 11-foot Storm Surge Predicted
Sep 15 2005 // Hurricane warnings are up over a 220 mile stretch of North Carolina’s coast, from Surf City, north of Wilmington to the Virginia line as officials fear serious flooding and a possible 11-foot storm surge. Early...
Hurricane Ophelia Packs 85 mph Winds, Pounds the Coast 40 Miles East of Wilmington, N.C.
Sep 14 2005 // Hurricane Ophelia, a Category One hurricane packing 85 mph sustained winds, is raking the North Carolina coast with strong winds and blowing rain. The center of Ophelia is 40 miles east of Wilmington, N.C. and about 50...
