Tag: Allen Houck

N.C. Insurance and reinsurance

Monday’s item on insurance-company profitability in North Carolina has drawn reader mail, with the leader of the N.C. Farm Bureau’s insurance arm writing in to say the numbers don’t offer the full picture in one key market. The figures from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners suffer from a “huge reporting flaw” that creates a […]

Written by on October 23, 2024

FEMA’s risk index

Researching the reinsurance issue, by the way, took me down a rabbit hole that led to a look at FEMA’s National Risk Index, a handy-dandy all-hazards mapping app that gets down to the census-tract level. Helene has its assessments for North Carolina looking a little frayed around the edges, given that our western counties all […]

Written by on October 23, 2024