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Mike Causey files paperwork for insurance commissioner campaign
Story Date: 2/14/2012
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Source: PRESS RELEASE, 2/13/12
Mike Causey, small business owner, farmer, retired insurance executive and Army veteran today filed his official campaign documents with the State Board of Elections in Raleigh.
"I am running for insurance commissioner because people are hurting from high insurance costs and lack of response from the Department of Insurance. We must create a free market insurance system and get people some relief from high insurance premiums," Causey said.
"People are frustrated and fed up with the insurance problems in this state; I will address this issue by creating a healthy insurance climate for insurers, attract more insurers as well as make a more 'user-friendly' and accessible insurance department" he said.
The current commissioner has failed to protect the people of eastern North Carolina. He "promised big but failed to deliver," according to one resident. He says on his blog:
"Accessibility, approachability, consumer protection, and transparency are hallmarks of both my administration as state Commissioner of Insurance but also of good government in general." If this is the case, why are so many residents "disappointed" at the failures of this administration.
"I will make sure that the people of North Carolina are well-served by the Department of Insurance; Plain-talk policies will replace the complicated language that we now have in North Carolina insurance policies; I will cut the red tape and streamline this frustrating bureaucracy," he concluded.
For more than ten years, Causey worked as a registered lobbyist with the NC General Assembly, working on consumer insurance issues, consumer health freedom issues, collision repair and auto glass issues.
Currently, Mike Causey serves on the Guilford County Agricultural Board, the Guilford County Environmental Review Board and the Public Officers and Employee Liability Insurance Commission under the Risk Management Division of the NC Department of Insurance.
Mike Causey, 61, is a native of Southeast Guilford County, where he was raised on the family farm.
Causey attended Guilford County Public Schools, earned a B.S. in Business Administration from High Point University, where he attended graduate school in the MBA program. He also earned his A.A.S. in Civil Engineering Technology from Wake Technical Community College and studied Environmental Engineering at UNC-Charlotte. He earned his insurance executive management certificate at Purdue University in 1981 and studied insurance through the American College's CLU and ChFC program. He served in Okinawa during the VietNam era with the US Army.
In his local community, Causey is past president and member of the Alamance Community Lions Club, where he was 'Lion of the Year' in 2009. He is a past member of the Hornets Nest Kiwanis Club in Charlotte and a past member of the Charlotte Association of Life underwriters. Causey still lives on the family farm with his wife of 38 years, Hiase. They have one grown daughter and are members of Westover Church in Greensboro.
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