Wayne Goodwin

From a news release linked here:

It is an exciting time for North Carolina politics! As the 2012 campaign season heats up, Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin is ramping up his efforts to reach out to voters, colleagues and supporters.

Goodwin’s website has been redesigned to make it easy to find the latest news about his service to North Carolina, watch video messages on YouTube, or follow his updates on Facebook and Twitter.

Goodwin has made transparent and open government a cornerstone of his efforts in the office of Insurance Commissioner. Creating a clear and open dialogue with citizens is equally important in his campaign.

“I love to talk to North Carolinians about the issues that are most important to them,” Goodwin said. "North Carolina is a big state, but social media can bring us together almost instantly."

Learn more at www.waynegoodwin.org and/or follow on Twitter @WayneGoodwinNC.

from exchange of emails in Dec. 2011:

Martha, please accept my apologies! My LinkedIn account has been dormant for more than a year until this week; apparently I have two of them - I just realized that one is connected to one email address and the other is with this email address.

Anyway, I just found your message and others from friends and colleagues.

As for your call, for a period of two weeks in November I received several hundred emails a day from around the country and phone calls so I suspect yours was amongst them. We tried responding directly to as many persons as we could.

I'm very pleased to report that my team and I announced yesterday that in 2011 we were able to recover $42 million for individuals, families and businesses of North Carolina! This is just part of the more than $1 BILLION my service as NC Insurance Commissioner has saved consumers since 2008.

North Carolinians are lucky to have a strong insurance commissioner who cares about consumers. Besides serving our state, Commissioner Wayne Goodwin also holds several important positions in the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). This gives him an important role in influencing national health policy. Right now we need your help to defend a key consumer protection of federal health reform.

Is there anything that can be done about the new flood insurance rates? Mine jumped from $388.00 a year to $1393.00 a year. To me and my family, $1393 is a lot of money, and it cannot be broken into payments.

I can understand a reevaluation of the flood plains, but the rate hike should have been considered on an individual basis. Also, is it a coincidence our flood insurance rates have sky rocketed after all of the flooding that has gone on all over the country in the past few years?

As a consequence, company also issues refunds and credits of $638,000 to overcharged policyholders. Total impact: $1.3 MILLION.

Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced a settlement with CIGNA Healthcare of North Carolina, Inc. over violations discovered during a routine market conduct examination. The settlement resulted in a fine of $600,000 on top of the refund of $638,000 to policyholders (individuals and businesses). As required by state law, the monetary penalty component collected will be distributed to the state public school system.

Attends Economic Forecast & Chamber Events

Dear Commissioner Goodwin.

You've done an outstanding job during your short tenure as Insurance Commissioner representing the interests of regular citizens, the people who elected you. In the spirit of that good work, we're hoping you'll wade into the latest fray involving insurance foxes and citizen hen houses. You're no doubt up to speed on the issues, but just to be sure, here's a recap straight from the News and Observer.

Now that 2011 began mere minutes ago, please visit my brand new campaign Facebook page (I hope you'll "Like It" and recommend it to your Facebook friends!) and also take a short stroll through my completely revised, new campaign website which is linked on the site and in this very sentence.

Both the website homepage (www.WayneGoodwin.org) and the Facebook wall have a short intro video from me on them.

Happy New Year, friends and visitors ... Onward to 2012!