All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...
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...
Dec 20 2009 // Large insurers AIG, Farmers and The Hartford made moves in 2009, as did large brokers Marsh, Aon, Willis, Gallagher, Brown & Brown, Hub and Wells Fargo. So, too, did, many regional insurers and Main Street agencies....
Dec 17 2009 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin reported the arrest of a licensed insurance agent from Fremont who has been charged with embezzling $7,000 in insurance premiums. Insurance department investigators...
Dec 11 2009 // Federal investigators are profiling bank robbers by giving them an online identity. The FBI and the North Carolina Bankers Association unveiled a Web site that includes photographs and information about bank robbers....
Dec 9 2009 // North Carolina residents now have online access to information on malpractice lawsuits, convictions, suspensions, or other disciplinary actions taken against physicians and other medical professionals in the state.The...
Dec 7 2009 // Lawyers Mutual Liability Insurance Co. of North Carolina announced that Gerald Arnold is retiring from his position as president of the company, effective Dec. 31, 2009. Arnold joined Lawyers Mutual in 1998 following his...
Dec 3 2009 // Workplace inspectors cited ConAgra Foods Inc. and a contractor for dozens of serious safety violations in the June explosion at a Slim Jim plant that killed four people, the state Labor Department said this week.Most of...
Nov 24 2009 // Virginia regulators are seeking to suspend the nation’s oldest black-owned insurer from doing business in the state, saying its finances are in hazardous condition.The Virginia State Corporation Commission said that...
Nov 23 2009 // International insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. reported it has acquired Shuford Insurance Agency, Inc. in Concord, North Carolina. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1938, Shuford...
Nov 20 2009 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced the appointment of five new members to the N.C. Joint Underwriting Association and the N.C. Insurance Underwriting Association, better known as the FAIR and...
Nov 4 2009 // North Carolina officials said that Jennifer Hughes Puckett, a former insurance agent from Rockingham, appeared this week in Carthage at the Moore County District Court and pleaded guilty to 16 counts of embezzlement by an...
Nov 3 2009 // Raleigh, North Carolina-based BB&T Insurance Services, the nation’s seventh largest insurance broker, said it has expanded its southwest Florida operation with the acquisition of Oswald Trippe and Co. Inc. of...
Nov 2 2009 // North Carolina workers’ compensation rates paid by employers are going down.The state has agreed to a 9.6 percent decrease to the voluntary market loss costs and no change (zero percent) for the assigned risk...
Oct 29 2009 // A former Army sergeant wounded during a military training exercise was awarded at least $750,000 in his lawsuit against the Moore County, North Carolina Sheriff’s Office and the former deputy who shot him.The...
Oct 29 2009 // Steven D. Carroll, Robert Jarratt and Michael H. Lee have been elected as the newest members of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America’s (PCI) Board of Governors.Carroll, serves as executive vice...
Oct 28 2009 // A brother and sister have been arrested by North Carolina officials on charges of insurance fraud.State Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin reported the arrest of Wanda Nichols Covington, 36, and her brother; Thomas...
Oct 19 2009 // Three more people have been arrested in connection with an alleged staged accident ring in North Carolina, bringing the total to seven in what has been a two-year investigation in Rowland.Insurance Commissioner Wayne...
Oct 13 2009 // The catastrophe bond market is poised for an active fourth quarter in 2009, according to a new report.The report by Guy Carpenter & Co., LLC, and GC Securities, a division of MMC Securities Corp. concludes that a...