North Carolina Insurance (NC)

As of 2000, there were 52 property and casualty and eight life and health insurance companies incorporated or organized in the state.

In 2001, there were 6.6 million ordinary life insurance policies in force, with a total value of $314.3 billion; total value for all categories of life insurance (ordinary, group, industrial, and credit) was $517.3 billion. Death benefits paid that year totaled $1.43 billion. Property and liability insurers wrote over $8.6 billion in premiums. That year, there were 102,876 flood insurance policies in force in the state, with a total value of $14.9 million. There were also 48,896 beach and windstorm insurance policies against hurricane and other windstorm damage in force, with a total value of $11.3 billion.