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 […]
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 […]
It’s fair to say that this year’s election for insurance commissioner is all about rates and rate hikes, with Republican incumbent Mike Causey saying he’s done his best to keep a lid on them and his opponent saying his best is nowhere near good enough. Sen. Natasha Marcus, D-Mecklenburg, rests part of her argument on […]
The Senate conducted veto-override votes on Monday, in the process turning three bills into law and sending two more to the House for final action. Consecutive 27-17, party line votes completed the legislative journeys of House Bills 155, 556 and 690. With six senators absent (three from each party), the margin was just over the […]
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