All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 13 2020 // Hot tub water that sprayed into the air likely caused an outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease that killed four people in North Carolina last year, state health officials said last month.The state Department of Health...
Feb 10 2020 // More than 260,000 homes and businesses in the southeastern United States were without power early Friday after a powerful storm raked the region. At least five people were killed.North Carolina had the most customers...
Feb 7 2020 // A North Carolina pharmacy and its owner have to pay a $600,000 civil penalty and stop dispensing opioids or other controlled substances, federal prosecutors said. Farmville Discount Drug Inc., and its owner and...
Feb 6 2020 // A woman who repeatedly told the national NAACP that her supervisor in the North Carolina conference had sexually harassed her is suing the national group and her former boss.Jazmyne Childs is seeking at least $15 million...
Feb 3 2020 // A federal judge refused to dismiss conspiracy and bribery counts against a North Carolina insurance magnate and two associates, allowing the case to move toward a February trial.Lawyers for Greg E. Lindberg, John Gray and...
Jan 31 2020 // A North Carolina city has become the first in the state to declare a “climate emergency” and has now set goals on warming greenhouse gases and renewable energy.Asheville City Council unanimously voted for the...
Jan 29 2020 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has aquired Wilmington, N.C.-based Hanover Excess & Surplus, Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1970, Hanover Excess & Surplus is a regional managing...
Jan 22 2020 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance Captive Insurance Program continued its steady growth in 2019, according to a statement from NCDOI.As of Dec. 31, 2019, NCDOI had licensed (including provisional) 318 captive...
Jan 22 2020 // The Army Corps of Engineers will award $281 million to a North Carolina city and county heavily impacted by Hurricanes Matthew and Florence.The Corps will release $237 million to Surf City/ North Topsail Beach and $44.5...
Jan 21 2020 // A Romanian-born former employee at Volvo was left out of business talks, turned down for a promotion and ultimately fired because he wasn’t Swedish, according to a lawsuit.Luke Diventi is suing Volvo Group North...
Jan 7 2020 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance and the North Carolina Rate Bureau (NCRB) have reached a settlement for an average 4% increase on a proposal to increase dwelling insurance rates.A hearing on the proposal...
Jan 6 2020 // Hundreds of people have been relocated from a North Carolina public housing community over ongoing concerns about carbon monoxide.The Durham Housing Authority said in a statement Friday night that it was conducting an...
Jan 3 2020 // Duke Energy Corp. reached a settlement with state regulators that will cut $1.5 billion from its cost to clean up coal ash ponds in North Carolina.The deal announced Thursday ends a legal dispute with the state, which in...
Dec 24 2019 // A deadly shooting at a city building in Winston-Salem, North Carolina was an act of “workplace violence” by one city employee who targeted a co-worker he’d disliked for a long time, police said...
Dec 19 2019 // A representative for an independent insurance agent group in one state has penned an opinion column calling attention to the dangers posed by climate change.“Going forward, our state remains vulnerable to the...
Dec 18 2019 // W.R. Berkley Corporation has formed Oak Harbor Reinsurance Co. (Oak Harbor Re), a protected cell captive insurance company, which was licensed by the N.C. Department of Insurance on Nov. 25.According to the North Carolina...
Dec 12 2019 // Historic cities and towns along the Southeastern U.S. coast have survived wars, hurricanes, disease outbreaks and other calamities, but now that sea levels are creeping up with no sign of stopping, they face a more...
Dec 6 2019 // A woman who says she was kicked out of a North Carolina nursing school a month before graduation in retaliation for accusing a supervisor of sexual harassment is suing in a case supported by the Time’s Up movement...
Nov 26 2019 // Health officials say a barbeque restaurant in North Carolina may have sickened about a dozen people with salmonella. A press release from the Nash County Health Department says the operating permit for Doug Saul’s...
Nov 22 2019 // Medical payments per claim in North Carolina decreased five to seven percent per year since 2014, according to a recent study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). These decreases likely reflect fee...