Richard Moore said today that he has shut off a politically-connected insurance broker's access to the addresses of state and local government retirees after other companies and employee associations complained about their lack of access.

The state treasurer said in a statement that he suspended providing State Insurance Services of Raleigh with the lists on Friday, the same day that he wrote a letter to the attorney general asking for clarification on a recent change to the personnel law that affected the treasurer's ability to release pension information, Dan Kane reports.

An assistant attorney general had determined that the new law prevented the release of retirees' addresses unless it was to a vendor that does business with the Treasurer's Office.

State Insurance Services won the right to offer supplemental insurance products in 2001 after an internal committee evaluated several brokers, said Michael Dupree, a former Butner Public Safety director and state trooper who served on the committee. Dupree now works part time for the Treasurer's Office.

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