Insurance Commissioner candidate Mike Causey visits Beaufort County | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This article originally appeared in the Beaufort Observer.

    Mike Causey, candidate for N. C. Insurance Commissioner visited Beaufort County Tuesday (1-10-12). He visited a number of local leaders hosted by Greg Dority, Chairman of the Beaufort County GOP. While he was at the County Administration offices we got him to sit for a moment and tell us why he is running for Insurance Commissioner. Here's a video clip of his comments:



    After the video interview we had an opportunity to talk with him briefly before he had to hurry off to another appointment. We expressed what we sense is a high level of frustration of residents of Beaufort County with the insurance business in our county. Many residents in Beaufort County experienced severe problems with insurance companies following Hurricane Irene and even more have experienced difficulty in obtaining satisfactory coverage at a reasonable price. We asked him what he proposed to do about those problems if elected.

    "One of the main reasons I'm running is that I want to help people who are having problems with insurance companies. That would be one of my top priorities in building a "customer-oriented" Insurance Department," he said. "As for the problem of difficulty in getting reasonable coverage, particularly comprehensive homeowners' and mobile homeowners' policies, I would work with the Legislature to address that problem. One of the specific things I would want to look at is the idea of making every policy equally available across the state. That would broaden the risk pool and I think that is something we need to take a hard look at." He added: "we need a more competitive insurance industry in North Carolina and that is another thing I would want to work on."

    He concluded: "we will be developing a website to address many of these issues in detail. We hope to have it up and running soon. The address will be: www.gocausey.com.