All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 23 2009 // North Carolina’s state-sanctioned property insurance program at the coast should reduce its maximum property policy coverage to relieve its potential liability in a massive hurricane, a legislative study committee...
Jan 22 2009 // Bankers Insurance, LLC has acquired the Hutton Vincent Williamson McLean Insurance Group (HVWM) based in Asheville, N.C.HVWM is one of the oldest and largest independent agencies in western North Carolina. This purchase...
Jan 22 2009 // A legislative committee looking at how to cover insurance claims after a big hurricane in North Carolina may recommend a cap on how much private insurers would be forced to pay.The study panel scheduled its final meeting...
Jan 20 2009 // Kellogg Co. has recalled 16 products containing peanut butter due to possible salmonella contamination, adding new urgency to the nationwide outbreak as federal officials confirmed contamination at a Georgia facility that...
Jan 16 2009 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin, who also serves as the state fire marshal, joined national officials in declaring a fire emergency across his state.The National Association of State Fire Marshals...
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...