All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 6 2022 // Tougher penalties for certain types of arsons and large-scale thefts at stores in North Carolina are among all or portions of 10 new state laws approved by the General Assembly this year that will take effect on...
Dec 6 2022 // Two children died and two adults were injured last weekend in a house fire in Salisbury, North Carolina.The Salisbury Post reported Saturday that the Salisbury Fire Department and Rowan County Emergency Services were...
Dec 5 2022 // A shooting attack on two North Carolina electrical substations has knocked out power to some 40,000 homes and businesses and prompted local officials to declare a curfew Sunday night.Local and national news outlets...
Nov 29 2022 // When an elementary school in Durham, North Carolina, caught fire in the middle of the night last April, officials found it strange that the alarm did not sound or alert the local fire department.It turned out that...
Nov 22 2022 // A small plane crashed in Winston-Salem on Saturday, killing two people, authorities said.Winston-Salem Police Department spokeswoman Kira Boyd told the Winston-Salem Journal that two people died in the crash of the small...
Nov 22 2022 // The North Carolina Department of Transportation’s winter weather prep is going digital this year with a snow plow simulator designed to give employees more training time without getting behind the wheel of an actual...
Nov 15 2022 // The global insurance brokerage and consulting firm, Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., has acquired a North Carolina-based intellectual property insurance firm.PIUS, or Patent Insurance Underwriting Services, is considered a...
Nov 7 2022 // What started out as festive time at the North Carolina Mountain State Fair in 2019 ended with 96 people hospitalized with Legionnaires’ disease. Four of them died.The tragedy in Fletcher, North Carolina, made...
Nov 4 2022 // The North Carolina Rate Bureau is requesting an average 87.5% increase in insurance rates for mobile home fire policies over the next two years, and a 53.4% increase in casualty policies.The rate requests may seem large,...
Nov 1 2022 // World Insurance Associates, one of the larger brokerage firms in the country, has acquired North Carolina-based Clinard Insurance Group. WIA, headquartered in Iselin, New Jersey, announced that it had purchased Clinard on...
Oct 31 2022 // Federal prosecutors have said that Bradley Reifler, a New York-based investment manager, contributed greatly to the demise of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co., the oldest black-owned insurance company in the United...
Oct 17 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.Broker licensing, long a complicated subject, has been thrust into the spotlight here on the AgentSync blog once more as North Carolina drops its broker-specific...
Oct 5 2022 // New safety mandates for elevators inside North Carolina beach and vacation cottages take effect on Saturday along with all or portions of another dozen or so enacted state laws.Other laws approved this year and starting in...
Sep 26 2022 // An investigation into a fire that destroyed a 40-year-old furniture upholstery business in North Carolina has been turned over to the state Department of Insurance.Morgan Chair, a 25-employee company in Stanfield, North...
Sep 23 2022 // Workers’ compensation carriers in North Carolina continue to be bound by a 44-year-old presumption that a death during work duties is work-related, even when a doctor testifies that a heart condition was the cause of...
Sep 12 2022 // Virginia-based Towne Insurance has continued its steady rate of expansion with the acquistion of Lee-Moore Insurance Agency in North Carolina. The move is the ninth acquisition by Suffolk-headquartered Towne, company...
Aug 30 2022 // A new trial for North Carolina insurance executive Greg Lindberg has been set for March 2023, three years after his conviction on bribery charges, a conviction that was later overturned.Federal prosecutors and...
Aug 29 2022 // Four workers were hurt at a North Carolina paper mill on Thursday, officials said.Four employees at WestRock’s mill in Roanoke Rapids were injured in an incident involving a steam release from a valve, WestRock...
Aug 23 2022 // The North Carolina Rate Bureau has recommended a statewide average increase of 42.6% over the next two years for dwelling property policies.The rate hikes would be an average of 19.6% for April 2023 and 19.2% for 2024, the...
Aug 18 2022 // SURE, a member-owned insurance company for coastal homeowners, has expanded to North Carolina, a market that continues to harden.The coverage will be underwritten by SageSure, the managing general underwriter for SURE, the...