Latest North Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
North Carolina Court Upholds 2008 Rate Hikes Opposed by Coastal Towns
Apr 20 2010 // The North Carolina Court of Appeals has declined to upset a 2008 agreement between the state’s former insurance commissioner and insurers that hiked insurance rates for some coastal homeowners up to 30 percent and...
North Carolina Attorney General Not Joining Suit Against Healthcare Law
Apr 19 2010 // North Carolina’s attorney general says the state will not join a lawsuit that seeks to overturn President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. Attorney General Roy Cooper said in a letter to Gov. Beverly Perdue...
Why Keystone Insurers Expanded in Kentucky and Where It’s Going Next
Apr 6 2010 // Pennsylvania-based insurance agency franchisor Keystone Insurers Group has more than 200 agency owner-partners and it’s not done yet, says Colin Buzzard, Keystone’s executive vice president of sales and...
Study: Road Woes Cost North Carolina Drivers $1,350 a Year
Mar 26 2010 // North Carolina’s big-city motorists are losing nearly on average the cost of a tank of gas every week to pay for their troubles from pot holes, longer waits in traffic and perilous roads. A national transportation...
North Carolina Court: Commissioner Rules Until Successor Sworn In
Mar 26 2010 // In a case over an Industrial Commission’s workers’ compensation award, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled recently that appointed government officials retain their jobs until their successors are sworn...
North Carolina Woman Arrested in Alleged Staged Robbery for Insurance
Mar 10 2010 // North Carolina officials report that a Wilson woman has been arrested for allegedly staging a robbery to collect insurance money. Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced the arrest of Leslie Michelle...
North Carolina Insurance Regulator Launches Mobile Web Site
Mar 9 2010 // Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has launched a mobile version of the North Carolina Department of Insurance’s Web site, www.ncdoi.com, to provide a mobile-friendly way for consumers to link with the state...
North Carolina Insurance Department Helps Consumers Recover $9 Million
Mar 9 2010 // Consumers in North Carolina were able to recover more than $9 million from insurance companies in 2009 with the assistance of the state insurance department. Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin said the recovery came from...
Insurer Refuses Payment, Alleging Fire at North Carolina Inn Was Set
Mar 5 2010 // The company that insured a historic inn in western North Carolina is refusing to pay for damages from a fire, saying someone associated with the owners is responsible for the blaze. The owner has accused former employees...
North Carolina’s First Bank Insurance Acquires Montgomery County Agency
Feb 16 2010 // North Carolina’s First Bank Insurance Services, Inc. has acquired The Insurance Center, Inc., a Montgomery County property/ casualty insurance agency with 500 customers. Kim Birckhead, president of The Insurance...
North Carolina Agent Sentenced for Embezzlement
Feb 12 2010 // A North Carolina insurance agent has been sentenced to 48 months supervised probation with one year of electronic house arrest after pleading guilty to five counts of embezzlement, according to state officials. Insurance...
U.S. Issues Safety Rules on North Carolina Plant Gas Explosion
Feb 5 2010 // On a 2-1 vote, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board yesterday recommended that national fuel gas codes be changed to improve safety when gas pipes are being purged of air during maintenance or installation of new piping. The...
North Carolina Assisted Living Center Owners Avoid $1.2 Million Liability
Feb 3 2010 // The owners of a North Carolina assisted living home have declared bankruptcy and could escape responsibility for what a judge called a pattern of neglect by under-trained and understaffed employees. Superior Court Judge...
North Carolina Reported 34 Workplace Deaths in 2009
Jan 27 2010 // State regulators say there were 34 accidental workplace deaths in North Carolina last year. The numbers released by the North Carolina Department of Labor show that accidental workplace fatalities dropped from 57 in 2008....
North Carolina Court Reviews Coastal Rate Hikes
Jan 24 2010 // A North Carolina appeals court is weighing whether to reverse a decision that resulted in homeowners insurance prices going up by almost 30 percent along the coast and down by a third in inland counties. A three-judge...
North Carolina Court Hears Challenge to Coastal Insurance Rate Hike
Jan 19 2010 // A North Carolina appeals court is weighing whether to freeze or even reverse homeowners’ insurance premiums that soared by up to almost 30 percent along the coast while sliding by a third in counties farthest from...
State Farm to Drop 1,650 Policies on North Carolina’s Barrier Islands
Jan 15 2010 // State Farm will drop as many as 1,650 insurance policies on homes on North Carolina’s coastal barrier islands, according to state officials. Kristin Millam, public information director for the North Carolina...
North Carolina Farm Bureau Employee Charged with Embezzlement
Jan 6 2010 // A former customer service representative for the North Carolina Farm Bureau Insurance Co. has been arrested on charges she embezzled premium payments from customers. North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin...
Ball Joins North Carolina’s Trisure Agency
Dec 22 2009 // Ryan W. Ball has joined North Carolina insurance agency TriSure as an account executive in the firm’s property/casualty insurance division. In his new capacity at TriSure, Ball will focus on risk management and loss...
The Best Independent Agencies to Work For … And Why
Dec 20 2009 // The results are in from the “2009 Best Independent Insurance Agency to Work For” survey by Insurance Journal. The common theme resonating from the winning responses is one of family ideals. Regardless of size...
