Practicing lawyer Dr. Don Hornstein is scheduled to explain “What in the World is Happening with Homeowners and Flood Insurance at the North Carolina Coast” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 28, in Wanchese.
The discussion is the August installment of “Science on the Sound” lecture series and will be held at the Coastal Studies Institute on the East Carolina University Outer Banks Campus.
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The public is encouraged to attend the program being offered at no charge. The talk will be livestreamed on the CSI YouTube channel.
Hornstein is the Thomas F. Taft Distinguished Professor at University of North Carolina School of Law at UNC Chapel Hill and a political appointee of the North Carolina Insurance Commissioner to the North Carolina Insurance Underwriters Association, also known as the NCIUA or “Beach Plan.”
During the evening program, Hornstein is to give updates on homeowners and flood insurance in North Carolina and throughout the country, as well as an insider’s view of the “resilient-roof” grant program for NCIUA policyholders, an award-winning climate-resiliency program that he helped design.
Hornstein has won over 10 teaching awards at UNC, including the Board of Governors 2019 Award for Excellence given to the single “best” teacher on the entire campus.
For 15 years, both Republican and Democratic insurance commissioners have appointed him to the NCIUA Board of Directors, where he chairs the mitigation committee that has designed the association’s $50 million “resilient-roof grant” program for policyholders on the North Carolina barrier islands.
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Editor’s Note: Learn more about the state and insurance in “Soaring Values, Increasing Risks” special report.
