Latest North Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
North Carolina Farm Bureau’s Credit Rating Lowered
Sep 19 2012 // A leading North Carolina property insurer has seen its credit rating downgraded due to a significant decrease in its underwriting revenue and its potential for large losses due to hurricanes and other severe weather...
AssuredPartners Acquires North Carolina’s Moore & Johnson Agency
Sep 18 2012 // AssuredPartners is making is first foray into North Carolina by purchasing the Moore & Johnson Agency. The Raleigh, North Carolina-based Moore & Johnson is owned by Bingham & Ervin Inc., and is one of the...
N.C. Authorities Announce Arrests for Alleged Insurance Fraud Schemes
Aug 31 2012 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin this week announced the arrest of Shacoria Vontravia Crawford, 24, of Charlotte, N.C. She is charged with one count each of insurance fraud, conspiracy to commit...
North Carolina Learned Lessons from Last Year’s Category 1 Irene
Aug 28 2012 // This time last year folks in Beaufort County, North Carolina were packed up and ready to heed an evacuation warning when Hurricane Irene was forecast to come ashore as a Category 2 storm. When the storm was downgraded,...
North Carolina Forms Workers’ Comp Scofflaw Task Force
Aug 27 2012 // North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue last week created a panel to find ways to crack down on businesses that are skirting North Carolina law on workers’ compensation insurance or taxes and gaining a competitive...
North Carolina Does Poor Job Tracking Workers’ Comp, Tax Scofflaws: Newspaper
Aug 22 2012 // North Carolina state agencies do a poor job communicating with each other to identify employers who are possibly breaking the law because they don’t have workers’ compensation insurance or fail to pay...
