Latest North Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
North Carolina Jury Awards $1.7M in Unborn Baby’s Death
Oct 9 2012 // A jury has awarded a Charlotte, North Carolina couple $1.7 million in a lawsuit against a local restaurant in connection with a head-on collision that killed the couple’s unborn son. Attorneys for Matt and Meredith...
Business Moves – Southeast
Oct 8 2012 // Digital, Strategic Benefit Solutions Employee benefits agency Digital Insurance in Atlanta has acquired Strategic Benefit Solutions of Raleigh, N.C., and merged it with its local office of Digital Benefit Advisors (DBA)....
North Carolina Insurers Seek 17.7% Increase in Homeowners Rates
Oct 4 2012 // North Carolina homeowners could see their first rate increase in four years as the state’s rating bureau called for a statewide average 17.7 percent increase in loss cost rates. The North Carolina Rate Bureau filed...
Insurer Ordered to Pay in North Carolina Parasailing Deaths
Sep 24 2012 // An insurance company has been ordered to finish paying $100,000 in the 2009 deaths of two women who were parasailing in Ocean Isle Beach. The StarNews of Wilmington reported that the president of Marine Specialty...
Digital Insurance Buys North Carolina’s Strategic Benefit Solutions
Sep 21 2012 // Employee benefits agency Digital Insurance in Atlanta has acquired Strategic Benefit Solutions of Raleigh, N.C., and merged it with its local office of Digital Benefit Advisors (DBA). Strategic Benefit Solutions President...
North Carolina Farm Bureau’s Credit Rating Lowered
Sep 19 2012 // A leading North Carolina property insurer has seen its credit rating downgraded due to a significant decrease in its underwriting revenue and its potential for large losses due to hurricanes and other severe weather...
AssuredPartners Acquires North Carolina’s Moore & Johnson Agency
Sep 18 2012 // AssuredPartners is making is first foray into North Carolina by purchasing the Moore & Johnson Agency. The Raleigh, North Carolina-based Moore & Johnson is owned by Bingham & Ervin Inc., and is one of the...
N.C. Authorities Announce Arrests for Alleged Insurance Fraud Schemes
Aug 31 2012 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin this week announced the arrest of Shacoria Vontravia Crawford, 24, of Charlotte, N.C. She is charged with one count each of insurance fraud, conspiracy to commit...
North Carolina Learned Lessons from Last Year’s Category 1 Irene
Aug 28 2012 // This time last year folks in Beaufort County, North Carolina were packed up and ready to heed an evacuation warning when Hurricane Irene was forecast to come ashore as a Category 2 storm. When the storm was downgraded,...
North Carolina Forms Workers’ Comp Scofflaw Task Force
Aug 27 2012 // North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue last week created a panel to find ways to crack down on businesses that are skirting North Carolina law on workers’ compensation insurance or taxes and gaining a competitive...
North Carolina Does Poor Job Tracking Workers’ Comp, Tax Scofflaws: Newspaper
Aug 22 2012 // North Carolina state agencies do a poor job communicating with each other to identify employers who are possibly breaking the law because they don’t have workers’ compensation insurance or fail to pay...
Former North Carolina Fire Chief Charged with Embezzlement
Aug 17 2012 // The former fire chief in Bryson City and his wife have been indicted on embezzlement charges. The Asheville Citizen-Times reported that the charges filed by state Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced against...
Simonson Joins Lockton Financial Advisors in North Carolina
Aug 16 2012 // Tom Simonson has joined Lockton as a vice president of Lockton Financial Advisors/Lockton Investment Advisors based in the insurance broker’s Charlotte, North Carolina office. Simonson will be responsible for client...
North Carolina Elections Board to Weigh Insurance Commissioner Campaign Complaint
Aug 15 2012 // State Board of Elections officials likely will use a less severe method to consider campaign finance accusations made by North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin against Republican challenger Mike...
North Carolina Court Rules Wounded Passenger Can Sue Police
Aug 9 2012 // A North Carolina appeals court said a car passenger wounded during a police chase on Asheville roads five years ago can continue to seek damages against officers involved in the pursuit but not the city’s now-retired...
North Carolina Insurance Reforms Fall Short
Aug 6 2012 // North Carolina lawmakers approved a bill with some changes to the property insurance system but, as one industry expert said, in so doing lawmakers “just stuck more fingers in the dike.” Despite what critics...
North Carolina Agent Arrested, Charged With Insurance Fraud
Aug 2 2012 // North Carolina regulators announced this week that a local insurance agent was arrested and charged with one felony count of obtaining property by false pretense. Department of Insurance criminal investigators allege that...
North Carolina Woman Arrested for Alleged Insurance Fraud
Jul 30 2012 // North Carolina insurance department announced last week the arrest of Debra Gail Hodges, 41, of 5009 Inverness Drive, Fayetteville; she is charged with one count each of insurance fraud, attempted insurance fraud,...
North Carolina’s Antiquated Rate Bureau System
Jul 26 2012 // There was a time, not so far in the distant past, when virtually all property and casualty insurance rates were calculated by industry-owned rate bureaus. It wasn’t necessarily a terrible system. Smaller insurers...
North Carolina Property Insurance Reform Law Comes Up Short
Jul 24 2012 // North Carolina’s property market problems are well known but thus far answers remain elusive even after lawmakers approved a bill that does little more than what one industry expert said, “just stuck more...
