Latest North Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Wells Fargo Insurance Services Grows in North Carolina
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...
North Carolina Committee to Study Beach Plan’s Ability to Cover Risks
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...
Hurricane Ike Threatens Bahamas; Hanna Death Toll Grows
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...
North Carolina Activates Rescue Teams and National Guard pre-Hanna
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...
Insurers Seek Study of North Carolina Beach Plan’s Finances
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...
Bird Prepares to Land After 20 Year Flight with North Carolina Big ‘I’ Agents
Sep 1 2008 // Retiring Leader Sees Agency Management Education Program at Appalachian State as Top Achievement After 20 years as an advocate for independent agents, Bob Bird, chief executive officer of the Independent Insurance Agents...
North Carolina Young Agents to Dedicate Habitat for Humanity House
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...
North Carolina-based Wilshire and Innovative Value Team with Jenesis
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...
Farmers Insurance to Pull out of North Carolina Homeowners’ Market
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...
North Carolina Insurance Agency Searched in Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
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,...
North Carolina Runs Special ‘Booze it & Lose it’ Blitz
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...
Update: Eastern North Carolina Wildfire Nearly out; Firefighters Leave
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...
North Carolina-based Montgomery Insurance Harvests Farm Business
Aug 6 2008 // Charlotte, N.C.-based Montgomery Insurance, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, introduced its farm line of business on Commercial IQ — a web-based application for quoting and application...
No Death Penalty in North Carolina Insurance Murder
Aug 4 2008 // An insurance agency owner charged with killing a North Carolina Department of Insurance investigator won’t face the death penalty, prosecutors said. The decision was revealed during a court hearing for Michael...
Business Moves
Aug 4 2008 // Tokio Marine, Philadelphia Insurance Japan’s Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. has agreed to acquire Philadelphia Consolidated, a U.S. property/casualty insurance company offering specialty commercial property and casualty...
North Carolina Reaches Deal in Mobile Homeowners Insurance Rate Case
Jul 28 2008 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long reached an agreement with insurance companies that want to charge more for mobile homeowner’s insurance. This is the first mobile homeowners rate case in 26 years, Long...
Insurers Say Major North Carolina Storm Could Cost Billions
Jul 23 2008 // Insurance companies say a major hurricane could lead them to pass billions of dollars in charges to homeowners across North Carolina because a state-created coastal insurance plan is underfunded. The News & Observer...
No Death Penalty in North Carolina Insurance Investigator’s Death
Jul 21 2008 // An insurance agency owner charged with killing a North Carolina Department of Insurance employee investigating his business won’t face the death penalty, prosecutors said. Prosecutors didn’t explain the July 17...
Salmonella Discovery Prompts Food Recall in North Carolina
Jul 21 2008 // North Carolina officials announced a recall of fresh jalapeño peppers and avocados distributed in North Carolina after samples from a food distributor tested positive for salmonella. The N.C. Department of Agriculture and...
Tropical Storm Cristobal Rumbles off the Carolinas
Jul 21 2008 // Tropical Storm Cristobal, the first tropical storm to menace the Southeast seaboard this hurricane season, sent outer bands of intermittent rain lashing the eastern Carolinas July 19 as forecasters predicted it could dump...
