Former N.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice I. Beverly Lake Jr. discusses the initial response to his plan to create a study commission investigating North Carolina inmates’ innocence claims. Lake offered these comments during a Dec. 12, 2011, speech to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. To watch full-length presentations of JLF events, click here.
NC Rate Bureau requests rate increase of up to 83% for mobile home insurance
After requesting an average rate hike of 42% in homeowners’ insurance rates in January, now comes word that the North Carolina Rate Bureau (NCRB) wants to raise mobile home fire policies (MH-F) an average of 83% and 50% for casualty policies (MH-C), both broken down over a three-year period. That’s according to a press release from the North Carolina Department of Insurance (NCDOI).