First Community in Va. Sells Four Insurance Offices

First Community Bancshares in Bluefield, Va., has sold four insurance offices.

The $2.5 billion-asset company disclosed in a regulatory filing that it sold two offices in Virginia and two in North Carolina to Ascension Insurance Agency. The price was not disclosed.

First Community said in the filing that it "will continue to provide insurance services in select bank branches under the name First Community Insurance Services."

Earlier this year the company swapped a number of branches with First Bancorp in Southern Pines, N.C.

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