Former BodyShop Business contributor, consumer advocate and lobbyist Mike Causey has announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for North Carolina commissioner of insurance.
“I’m running for insurance commissioner because people are hurting from high insurance costs and lack of response from the Department of Insurance,” said Causey. “We must create a free market insurance system and get people some relief from high insurance premiums.”
Causey wrote for BodyShop Business from 2002 to 2004, emphasizing the importance of getting involved in politics, educating consumers and fighting against steering and insurer control.
Causey began his career in insurance with Metropolitan Life. In the mid-1980s, he was named superintendent of agencies with Standard Life Insurance Company for North Carolina and four other states. He eventually left insurance to work as a lobbyist at the North Carolina General Assembly and president of Causey & Associates, a full-service government relations firm representing consumers and lobbies for consumer rights issues. He is also a past representative of the Independent Auto Body Association (IABA) and the North Carolina Glass Association.
Causey still lives on the farm he grew up on in Greensboro, North Carolina, and operates a downtown market, Dodge Lodge Farm, that specializes in locally-grown organic produce.
More information:
Steering Customers to the Truth by Mike Causey
