Latest North Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
North Carolina SIA Group Appoints Edwards
Feb 7 2011 // Don Mills, president of the North Carolina-based SIA Group, has announced that Angela Edwards has been named employee benefits account executive in the agency’s Jacksonville office. Edwards will be responsible for...
North Carolina Receives 800 Comments on Fire, Dwelling Rates
Feb 4 2011 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance said that more than 800 people have submitted either written comments or public testimony on the industry’s request for a statewide increase averaging 20.9 percent in...
North Carolina Auto Insurers: No Rate Change Necessary
Feb 4 2011 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced good news for drivers in the state after the North Carolina Rate Bureau submitted its latest rate filing calling for no change in passenger car and motorcycle...
North Carolina Beach Plan to Retrieve Surplus Returned to Insurers
Jan 24 2011 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has announced a settlement agreement that calls for the North Carolina Insurance Underwriting Association, known as the Beach Plan, to reverse the more than $16 million...
North Carolina Insurers Seek Dwelling Rate Hike
Jan 24 2011 // North Carolina insurers are looking to raise rates from 7 percent to 25 percent, or an average 20.9 percent statewide, for 2011 on dwelling fire and extended coverage policies. If approved the higher rates would affect...
All Risk Promotes Robbins to North Carolina Branch Manager
Jan 20 2011 // Wholesale insurance brokerage firm All Risks, Ltd. has promoted Lora Robbins to branch sales leader in the Charlotte, N.C. office. Robbins first joined the firm in 2006. All Risks, Ltd. based in Hunt Valley, Maryland. The...
Workplace Deaths Rise in North Carolina; Overall Injury Rate Drops
Jan 19 2011 // There were 48 fatal workplace accidents in North Carolina in 2010, a tally that is up from 34 in the previous year but below the five-year average of 53.2. At the same time, the state’s overall injury and illness...
North Carolina Insurers Seek Rate Hike on Dwelling Fire Policies
Jan 5 2011 // North Carolina insurers are looking to raise rates from 7 percent to 25 percent, or an average 20.9 percent statewide, for 2011 on dwelling fire and extended coverage policies. If approved the higher rates would affect...
North Carolina Jeweler Loses Bet Against a White Christmas
Dec 31 2010 // A North Carolina jewelry store owner made a $400,000 bet against a white Christmas — and lost. Alan Perry, owner of Perry’s Emporium in Wilmington, promised refunds for everything bought at his store between...
North Carolina Principal Gets Workers’ Compensation After Shooting
Dec 29 2010 // A North Carolina middle school principal who blames his April 2009 shooting on his fight against gangs will receive workers’ compensation for his injuries. The Fayetteville Observer reported that the state Industrial...
Families of Victims Sue in North Carolina Nursing Home Shootings
Dec 17 2010 // The families of two of the eight people shot and killed at a North Carolina nursing home last year have sued, saying the home didn’t do enough to protect residents. Seven residents and a nurse were killed and two...
LaBarre/Oksnee Insurance Acquires N.C. Dundas and Associates
Dec 15 2010 // Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based LaBarre/Oksnee Insurance has acquired the N.C. Dundas and Associates, a commercial insurance brokerage firm. The acquisition is part of LaBarre/Oksnee’s larger strategic expansion plans that...
North Carolina Escapes Storms; Will It Escape Florida’s Insurance Woes?
Dec 5 2010 // Earlier in 2010, Colorado State’s Tropical Meteorology Project forecasted eight hurricanes to emerge from 15 named tropical storms in the Atlantic basin. Of those, four were forecasted to become major hurricanes. On...
North Carolina’s Motley, Leading Black Politician, Insurance Exec, Dies
Nov 17 2010 // A pioneering black political leader in Charlotte has died. Long & Son Mortuary Service said Rowe Motley died last Friday at age 84. Motley was the first black commissioner in Mecklenburg County, serving in the 1970s....
North Carolina Escapes Storms; Will It Escape Florida’s Insurance Woes?
Nov 16 2010 // Earlier in 2010, Colorado State’s Tropical Meteorology Project forecasted eight hurricanes to emerge from 15 named tropical storms in the Atlantic basin. Of those, four were forecasted to become major hurricanes. On...
North Carolina Agent Accused of Filing False House Fire Claim
Nov 15 2010 // Frances Moore, of Moravian Falls,. N.C., an insurance agent and owner and operator of Fran Moore Allstate Agency, has been charged with 14 counts of insurance fraud, according to officials. Insurance Commissioner Wayne...
Some Question North, South Carolina Injured Worker Data
Nov 14 2010 // A new federal job safety study finds North and South Carolina among the country’s safest states in which to work. But some experts doubt whether the rates accurately reflect which states are safer. North...
Some Question Data on Low Worker Injury Rates in North, South Carolina
Nov 8 2010 // A new federal study estimating the rate of workplace injuries last year finds North and South Carolina among the country’s safest in which to work. But some workplace safety experts doubt whether the rates accurately...
Insurance Helps But North Carolina Family Struggles to Rebuild After Fire
Nov 5 2010 // Alma Salas printed out an application for Extreme Home Makeover the night before her house was destroyed by fire. “It wasn’t a perfect home, but I bought it with intentions of building it up,” she said....
North Carolina Court Rejects Counties’ Challenge to 2008 Homeowners Rates
Nov 3 2010 // Municipalities do not have standing to challenge decisions on insurance rates issued by the state insurance department, a North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled. Twelve North Carolina counties, led by dare County, along...
