North Carolina insurance commissioner News

NC Rate Bureau Wants 83% Elevation in Mobile Home Fire Rates

The North Carolina Rate Bureau has requested an 83% average rate increase for mobile home fire policies and a 50% jump for mobile home casualty policies over the next three years. The MH-F increase request is 24.9% for 2024, 21.2% …

NC Commissioner Fires Top Fire Marshal Officials as Feud with Lawmakers Continues

North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey appears to have escalated a feud with lawmakers, firing three officials at the state fire marshal’s office after legislation stripped Causey of the marshal’s job. Causey, insurance commissioner since 2017, recently sent a top …

NC Commissioner, Firefighters Question New Law Making Fire Marshal a Separate Office

North Carolina’s Republican supermajority in the legislature has thrown a curveball to the state’s insurance commissioner and fire marshal, a position that until recently has mostly stayed above partisan politics. A late change to the state’s $30 billion budget, approved …

Long, the Longest-Serving NC Insurance Commissioner, Honored at DOI

The longest serving state insurance commissioner in North Carolina history is being memorialized within his former department. His longtime election foe led the ceremony. The department’s first-floor hearing room in the Albemarle Building in downtown Raleigh will be dedicated on …

North Carolina Insurance Agent Charged with Embezzlement

North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced the arrest of Jacob Christopher Mullins, 28, of Fremont; he is charged with one count each of embezzlement by an insurance agent, financial card fraud and obtaining property by false pretense. Department of …

Ex-Senate Candidate to Run for North Carolina Insurance Commissioner

Unsuccessful 2014 U.S. Senate candidate Heather Grant says she’ll run for North Carolina insurance commissioner in 2016. Grant of Wilkes County announced Friday she will seek the Republican Party’s nomination for the job. Current Democratic incumbent Wayne Goodwin has served …