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Selling Long-term Relationships over Short-term Savings For contractor Paige Smith of Neuse Tile Service Inc. in Youngsville, N.C., the increase in cold calls she is receiving from insurance agents is a sure sign of the industry’s softening market. A couple …

Accident Fund Insurance Company of America recently announced that Richard Znidarsic has been named vice president of Information Services. In his role on the executive team, Znidarsic oversees all new technology and development, systems maintenance and support, hardware systems support, …

Pittsfield, Maine is one of four towns under consideration by a North Carolina company for a new call center that could employ up to 200 people. Global Contact Services, which runs 11 call centers in six states, is holding a …

Charlotte, N.C.-based LMC Capital LLC, named Patrick Vaughn as managing director. He will lead LMC’s M&A practice for insurance technology and services companies. Previously, Vaughn was a managing director at Triarch Partners, a Charlotte, N.C., boutique investment bank, where he …

Thirteen companies with approximately 183,200 employees in Texas were approved to self-insure for workers’ compensation claims for a one-year period under the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), Division of Workers’ Compensation Self-Insurance Program. The department announced that Commissioner of Workers’ …

A debris burn that apparently got out of control scorched approximately 250 acres in Washington County, N.C., on Sunday, just four days after the state temporarily lifted an outdoor burning ban. No injuries were reported and only a few people …

West Virginia officials announced that a Raleigh County woman pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining workers’ compensation benefits exceeding $3,800.00. On May 15, 2007, a Raleigh County Grand Jury indicted Angel M. Delung, 34, of Shady Springs, W. Va., on one …

CarInsurance.com, which sells auto insurance over the Internet, has added more carriers to its current 28 state agency product offering. In November and December 2007, the firm expanded and now offers Encompass Insurance – Allstate and Progressive Drive in Arizona; …

North Carolina officials plan to temporarily lift the ban on open burning to allow people time to burn off forest debris that can fuel wildfires. North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Bill Ross lifted the ban Wednesday …