Latest North Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Deal Reached on Change to N.C. Workers’ Comp Law
Dec 17 2012 // Legislators say they don’t expect any obstacles when they consider a bill allowing workers to make sure their employers carry workers’ compensation insurance on them. The News & Observer of Raleigh...
Wells Fargo Names Head of Personal, Small Biz Insurance Unit in N.C.
Dec 17 2012 // Wells Fargo Insurance — part of San Francisco-based Wells Fargo & Company — has promoted Anne Doss to the head of its personal and small business insurance division, effective January 2013. Based in...
North Carolina Reaches $1.6 Million Rebate Settlement with Insurers
Dec 6 2012 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced an agreement with two insurers that will result in consumers receiving $1.6 million in refunds. American Modern Home Insurance Co. and its affiliate American...
Hackers Steal North Carolina Insurance Agency Funds
Nov 30 2012 // A business in Hickory reports thousands of dollars were taken after a hacker got into a computer system. The Hickory Daily Record reported that First Security Insurance said that a substantial amount of money had been...
North Carolina Approves 13.2% Dwelling Fire, Extended Coverage Rate Hike
Nov 27 2012 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin and insurance companies have come to an agreement that allows for a statewide average increase of 13.2 percent for dwelling fire and extended coverage policies, spread...
North Carolina Re-Elects Goodwin as Insurance Commissioner
Nov 19 2012 // North Carolina’s incumbent insurance commissioner, Democrat Wayne Goodwin, beat back a challenge by Republican Mike Causey of Greensboro to keep his job. Goodwin won 51.8 percent of the 4.3 million votes cast in the...
State Elections Wrapup: Some Partisan Realignment; 5 Incumbent Insurance Chiefs Win
Nov 8 2012 // Neil Alldredge has been searching for the unifying “theme” in the results of Nov. 6 state elections around the country but he says it has not been easy to identify one. As senior vice president for state and...
North Carolina Re-Elects Goodwin as Insurance Commissioner
Nov 7 2012 // North Carolina’s incumbent insurance commissioner, Democrat Wayne Goodwin, beat back a challenge by Republican Mike Causey of Greensboro to keep his job. Goodwin won 51.8 percent of the 4.3 million votes cast in the...
State Elections to Decide Insurance Commissioner, Ballot Initiatives, Court Contests
Nov 5 2012 // For the insurance industry, there is more at stake in the Nov. 6 election than who goes to or stays in the White House and Congress. The insurance industry will be watching who wins the gubernatorial races in 11 states,...
North Carolina Home Insurance Ruling Scheduled for After Election
Nov 5 2012 // Two weeks ahead of the election deciding whether he keeps his job, North Carolina’s insurance commissioner told companies they’ll have to prove they should be allowed to increase homeowners’ premiums by a...
Controversy Over Hurricane Deductibles May Just Be Beginning
Nov 2 2012 // When the National Hurricane Center declared Sandy a “post-tropical storm” just before it made landfall, a lot of homeowners across New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Maryland may have saved a lot of money....
North Carolina’s Ocracoke Ferries Halted, Stranding Some
Oct 29 2012 // North Carolina transportation officials suspended all ferry service to Ocracoke Island on North Carolina’s Outer Banks on Saturday, leaving hundreds of residents and guests no way to reach higher ground as Hurricane...
Update: Hurricane Sandy Death Toll at 41; ‘Super Storm’ Eyes East Coast
Oct 26 2012 // Hurricane Sandy, a late-season Atlantic storm unlike anything seen in more than two decades, slogged slowly toward the U.S. East Coast on Friday after killing at least 41 people as it cut across the Caribbean. Forecasters...
North Carolina Regulator Calls for Hearing, Delay on Home Insurance Rates
Oct 25 2012 // Two weeks ahead of an election deciding whether he keeps his job, North Carolina’s insurance commissioner told companies they’ll have to prove they should be allowed to increase homeowner’s premiums by a...
North Carolina Big ‘I’ Agents Elect Purinai Chairman
Oct 19 2012 // Members of the Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina (IIANC) have elected David Purinai, who is president of MSH Insurance in Rocky Mount, N.C., as the association’s new chairman of the board of directors...
North Carolina Jury Awards $1.7M in Unborn Baby’s Death
Oct 9 2012 // A jury has awarded a Charlotte, North Carolina couple $1.7 million in a lawsuit against a local restaurant in connection with a head-on collision that killed the couple’s unborn son. Attorneys for Matt and Meredith...
Business Moves – Southeast
Oct 8 2012 // Digital, Strategic Benefit Solutions Employee benefits agency Digital Insurance in Atlanta has acquired Strategic Benefit Solutions of Raleigh, N.C., and merged it with its local office of Digital Benefit Advisors (DBA)....
North Carolina Insurers Seek 17.7% Increase in Homeowners Rates
Oct 4 2012 // North Carolina homeowners could see their first rate increase in four years as the state’s rating bureau called for a statewide average 17.7 percent increase in loss cost rates. The North Carolina Rate Bureau filed...
Insurer Ordered to Pay in North Carolina Parasailing Deaths
Sep 24 2012 // An insurance company has been ordered to finish paying $100,000 in the 2009 deaths of two women who were parasailing in Ocean Isle Beach. The StarNews of Wilmington reported that the president of Marine Specialty...
Digital Insurance Buys North Carolina’s Strategic Benefit Solutions
Sep 21 2012 // Employee benefits agency Digital Insurance in Atlanta has acquired Strategic Benefit Solutions of Raleigh, N.C., and merged it with its local office of Digital Benefit Advisors (DBA). Strategic Benefit Solutions President...
