All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 1 2008 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance Office of State Fire Marshal and the UNC Healthcare Jaycee Burn Center are the co-hosts of the 2008 World Burn Congress in Raleigh.Each year more than 500,000 people are treated...
Sep 22 2008 // An autopsy says the body of a North Carolina insurance investigator that was found in South Carolina in May was so badly decomposed that medical examiners can’t determine how she died. The autopsy report released...
Sep 22 2008 // The North Carolina Legislature has formed a committee to study the North Carolina Insurance Underwriting Association’s (Beach Plan) ability to respond financially to a significant hurricane landfall.State Rep. Bruce...
Sep 19 2008 // Mecklenburg County, N.C. could spend more than $4 million to buy as many as 50 homes that suffered serious flood damage after Tropical Storm Fay and other storms.The Charlotte Observer reported Sept. 17 the voluntary...
Sep 19 2008 // The North Carolina Legislature recently mandated a committee to study the North Carolina Insurance Underwriting Association’s (Beach Plan) ability to respond financially to a significant hurricane landfall.The first...
Sep 15 2008 // The federal government opened disaster loan centers in two North Carolina cities that were flooded by remnants from Tropical Storm Fay last month.The U.S. Small Business Administration said centers opened Sept. 13 in...
Sep 12 2008 // Workers’ compensation insurance rates will be dropping in North Carolina next year, for the first time in five years.The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Sept. 10 the North Carolina Rate Bureau has requested...
Sep 11 2008 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long signed an order requiring a 16.1 percent reduction in private passenger auto rates and a 11.7 percent reduction in motorcycle liability rates.The decreases will become...
Sep 10 2008 // Wells Fargo Insurance Services Inc., a bank-owned insurance brokerage and a subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Co., acquired the assets of Greensboro, North Carolina’s Professional Benefits Associates LLC. Professional...
Sep 9 2008 // The North Carolina Legislature mandated a committee to study the North Carolina Insurance Underwriting Association’s (Beach Plan) ability to respond financially to a significant hurricane landfall.State Rep. Bruce...
Sep 5 2008 // Powerful Hurricane Ike weakened slightly as it moved across the Atlantic toward the Bahamas and the U.S. on Thursday, while Tropical Storm Hanna’s death toll from floods in Haiti grew to 136.Campgrounds were closed...
Sep 4 2008 // North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley activated the N.C. National Guard and other state resources to be ready to respond to Tropical Storm Hanna, which is expected to affect the state on Friday and Saturday.Up to 270 members of...
Sep 1 2008 // Insurers are calling upon the the North Carolina Insurance Underwriting Association, known as the Beach Plan, to release its financial information to allow consumers, lawmakers and insurers to begin working on long-term...
Sep 1 2008 // After 20 years as an advocate for independent agents, Bob Bird, chief executive officer of the Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina, is stepping down.During this year’s convention scheduled for Oct. 12-15,...
Aug 21 2008 // The Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina’s Young Agents announced the dedication of a Habitat for Humanity house.The Young Agents partnered with Habitat for Humanity of Wake County to build a house in...
Aug 20 2008 // Wilshire Insurance and Innovative Value Agency, based in Fayetteville, announced that their North Carolina segmented private passenger automobile program will now be available on the Jenesis Agency Management system quote...
Aug 14 2008 // Farmers Insurance Group notified its North Carolina agents that the insurer will pull out of the homeowners’ market across the state before year’s end.Independent agent Greg Reeder of Reeder Insurance Services...
Aug 11 2008 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long today announced the arrest of an Apex woman on one count of embezzlement and one count of obtaining property by false pretenses.Mary Grantham Hicks, aka Mary Linda Hicks, 58,...
Aug 8 2008 // North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley announced that law enforcement officers across the state will conduct a one-day “Booze It & Lose It” enforcement blitz today — 08.08.08, as a reminder for motorists...
Aug 7 2008 // A wildfire that has burned more than 62 square miles of eastern North Carolina forests and fields is nearly extinguished and firefighters are wrapping up operations, a spokesman said Aug. 5.Fire managers have sent scores...