All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 13 2009 // Workplace deaths in North Carolina rose in 2008 after three years of declines, and officials worry that the nation’s sagging economy is partly to blame.Preliminary data provided by the North Carolina Department of...
Jan 11 2009 // Auto insurers may increase premiums on North Carolina drivers by up to 9.4 percent starting Jan. 1, but a court ruling will determine whether they can keep the extra money.The North Carolina Rate Bureau, which represents...
Jan 11 2009 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long has agreed to permit homeowners insurance companies to hike their rates an overall statewide average of 4.05 percent beginning May 1.This is below the statewide increase than...
Jan 11 2009 // Commercial construction insurance brokers from the northeast to the west coast, from Texas all the way to North Carolina, say the market and their business right now are not as bad as might be expected from reading daily...
Jan 6 2009 // It’s a select community. Only 11 state insurance commissioners across the country are elected rather than appointed. Wayne Goodwin is now one of the 11. He won the Nov. 4 election to succeed Jim Long, who first won...
Jan 5 2009 // 2008 can be described as a year like no other in the property/casualty insurance world. This year we saw the near death of the world’s largest and most successful insurance company, AIG. The soft market continued to...
Dec 29 2008 // Auto insurers may increase premiums on North Carolina drivers by up to 9.4 percent starting Jan. 1, but a court ruling will determine whether they can keep the extra money.The North Carolina Rate Bureau, which represents...
Dec 23 2008 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long reports that Kenneth Rick Morrow of Marion, a licensed insurance agent, was arrested last week and charged with nine counts of embezzlement, nine counts of obtaining property...
Dec 19 2008 // CRC Insurance Services Inc., the wholesale insurance subsidiary of BB&T Corp. principal subsidiary Branch Banking and Trust Co., reports that it plans to acquire TAPCO Underwriters Inc.TAPCO will operate as a division...
Dec 18 2008 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long today signed a settlement agreement with homeowners insurance companies allowing an overall statewide average increase of 4.05 percent in rates beginning May 1.This is below...
Dec 12 2008 // Cars change. Roads change. So do drivers.Dick Conover of Emerald Isle spent more than 20 years helping drivers 55 and older recognize and adjust to these changes. He retired in early December as an instructor of...
Dec 10 2008 // An insurance company linked to Allstate says it won’t write new homeowner and dwelling fire policies in North Carolina over concerns about a state-sanctioned program for coastal insurance.Encompass Insurance told...
Dec 9 2008 // North Carolina’s largest health insurance company is providing free generic prescription drugs to about 1 million members. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Monday that Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans to...
Dec 5 2008 // North Carolina homeowners insurers are seeking an average 19.5 percent statewide rate hike which, if approved, would be the first rate hike since 2006.The proposal, being finalized this week by the North Carolina Rate...
Dec 3 2008 // North Carolina-based private security contractor Blackwater Worldwide is meeting with shipping and insurance companies this week to describe what the company can do to protect vessels traveling through the volatile Gulf of...
Dec 3 2008 // Property/casualty insurers are urging North Carolina officials to impose surcharges on policies in the state’s residual market property insurer, the Beach Plan, and take other financing and mitigation steps to...
Dec 1 2008 // North Carolina’s new insurance chief agrees with insurance industry critics that the state’s backup wind insurance pool, known as the Beach Plan, needs shoring up.“I have described our Beach Plan or...
Nov 30 2008 // It’s a select community: only 11 state insurance commissioners are elected rather than appointed. Wayne Goodwin is now one of the 11. He won the Nov. 4 election to be North Carolina’s regulator, succeeding Jim...
Nov 30 2008 // On Nov. 4, Democrat Wayne Goodwin won election as North Carolina Insurance Commissioner with 52 percent of the vote, succeeding 24-year veteran Jim Long. Goodwin campaigned on his experience. He is a former four-term...
Nov 21 2008 // A former North Carolina television news anchor has reached a settlement in a wrongful-death lawsuit involving the family of a man he ran over and killed while driving drunk.The Winston-Salem Journal reported that the...