All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 6 2020 // North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest has filed his lawsuit challenging Gov. Roy Cooper’s decisions to shutter businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic without getting the backing of other elected officials.Forest...
Jul 6 2020 // High Street Insurance Partners, Gates-Cole AssociatesTraverse City, Michigan-based High Street Insurance Partners has acquired Gates-Cole Associates in New Hartford, New York. Financial details of the transaction were not...
Jul 2 2020 // All North Carolinians living and working in nursing homes will soon receive a one-time coronavirus test, the state announced Tuesday.Mandy Cohen, the state’s top public health official, said the state’s effort...
Jul 2 2020 // Online insurance marketplace Policygenius has made its first executive hire for its North Carolina headquarters.Erik Garr, who established Google Fiber’s operation in Durham, N.C, and was the director of strategy and...
Jun 30 2020 // BB&T Insurance Holdings, Inc., a subsidiary of Truist Bank, is officially now doing business as Truist Insurance Holdings, Inc.With $30 billion in premium in 2019, Truist Insurance Holdings is the fifth-largest...
Jun 26 2020 // The North Carolina General Assembly failed on Wednesday to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a measure that would have allowed gyms and bars to open again despite his executive order keeping them closed...
Jun 23 2020 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Florida Progress LLC, operating as Duke Energy Florida LLC, for exposing employees to excavation hazards at a Zephyrhills,...
Jun 23 2020 // Relation Insurance Services, a privately owned insurance brokerage that offers property and casualty, risk management, employee benefits, and TPA-consulting services through its family of brands across the United States,...
Jun 22 2020 // North Carolina legislators sent another bill on Thursday to Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper designed to overturn parts of his executive order for COVID-19 that’s kept several types of retail businesses shuttered for...
Jun 19 2020 // Heavy rains caused flash flooding in parts of North Carolina, leading to washed-out roads and bridges and prompting multiple water rescues.Reports indicated that 5 inches of rainfall fell in parts of the state east of...
Jun 16 2020 // A class-action lawsuit has been filed against a real estate company on North Carolina’s Outer Banks after it allegedly refused to issue refunds for people who couldn’t visit because of coronavirus-related...
Jun 12 2020 // W.E. Love & Associates (WEL), an XPT Group company, has hired Christopher Joyce, who joins as underwriter. Joyce will continue his career as a specialist in the transportation niche, as WEL continues to expand its...
Jun 8 2020 // Total Insurance Plus, LLC (TIP), an alliance of independent insurance agencies, has welcomed Flatlands Jessup Insurance Group, LLC to its agency network. Flatlands Jessup Insurance is based in Washington, N.C. and has five...
Jun 3 2020 // An early morning fire damaged a building at Stagville, a state historic site that includes remnants of one of the largest plantations in North Carolina. The Durham County Sheriff’s Office said fire rescue personnel...
Jun 3 2020 // Environmental regulators did not inspect a North Carolina chemical facility for eight years even though it was under a federal agreement to prevent the release of a potentially toxic substance known as PFAS.WRAL reports...
Jun 2 2020 // Four states have passed laws that grant businesses immunity from civil liability for claims relating to COVID-19, while legislation in at least three other states is advancing.The bills signed into law by the governors of...
May 27 2020 // McGriff Insurance Services, Inc., and McGriff, Seibels & Williams, Inc., the retail insurance subsidiaries of BB&T Insurance Holdings, have rebranded their businesses to McGriff.The company said in a statement the...
May 26 2020 // Meat producer Tyson Foods is reporting 570 cases of COVID-19 at a poultry processing complex in North Carolina.Tyson said in a news release that it tested more than 2,000 staff members and contractors who work at its...
May 22 2020 // Gov. Roy Cooper is letting North Carolina restaurants, barber shops and salons welcome patrons inside starting this holiday weekend, reporting on Wednesday that the state’s COVID-19 trends remain largely stable.But...
May 22 2020 // Federal prosecutors have declined to pursue criminal charges against a chemical company that for years discharged compounds with health risks that aren’t fully understood into a North Carolina river, the company...