All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 4 2019 // IAT Insurance Group, a provider of specialty property and casualty products, has added Steve Assennata to the company to serve as chief underwriting officer (CUO) of its Programs unit. The company is based in Raleigh,...
Oct 24 2019 // Several U.S. states that have been ravaged by the opioid epidemic are pushing back on a proposed $48 billion settlement framework that would resolve thousands of lawsuits against five drug companies accused of fueling the...
Oct 23 2019 // The North Carolina Department of Labor has issued more than $21,000 in fines to three companies involved in a deadly natural gas explosion.News outlets report PSNC Energy and two subcontractors were cited for the April 10...
Oct 22 2019 // A health system that serves western North Carolina has contacted an undisclosed number of people about a data breach involving its e-commerce website.The Citizen-Times reports Mission Health said it recently...
Oct 21 2019 // North Carolina health officials say a fourth person has died from Legionnaires’ disease.The N.C. Department of Health and Human Resources said in a statement on Friday that its Division of Public Health has confirmed...
Oct 16 2019 // Gov. Roy Cooper aims to create a state-funded program to help residents in four North Carolina counties recover from Hurricane Dorian after the federal government declined a request for assistance targeting them. The...
Oct 14 2019 // CRC Group has hired Greg Watson as Office President for a new CRC office opening in Charlotte, North Carolina.Watson comes to CRC with more than 10 years of industry experience, where he began his career as a personal...
Oct 14 2019 // North Carolina health officials have confirmed a second death from Legionnaires’ disease linked to a hot tub display at a fair. The Division of Public Health in the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services says...
Oct 8 2019 // President Donald Trump has approved a request from North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper for public assistance for 14 counties affected by Hurricane Dorian. The major disaster declaration, approved Friday, allows impacted...
Oct 7 2019 // The North Carolina State Bar says it was the target of a ransomware attack this week. In a statement issued on Thursday, the organization says the attack late Monday infiltrated the network through a server and began...
Oct 7 2019 // North Carolina health officials say hot tub displays inside a building at a fair are likely to blame for an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease last month. The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services said on its...
Oct 7 2019 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance and the North Carolina Rate Bureau have settled a legal dispute over a proposed premium increase for homeowners insurance rates, according to a statement from NCDOI.NCDOI has also...
Oct 7 2019 // Insured loss estimates for Hurricane Dorian will range from $500 million to $1.5 billion, according to catastrophe modeling firms Karen Clark & Co. and RMS.According to KCC, Dorian reached peak intensity of 185 mph...
Oct 4 2019 // Health officials in North Carolina say 116 people have been diagnosed with Legionnaire’s disease since an outbreak was reported in September. The Asheville Citizen Times reports the N.C. Department of Health and...
Oct 4 2019 // The former chairman of North Carolina’s Republican Party admitted Wednesday that he broke the law by lying to federal agents about his role in an alleged effort to bribe the state’s top insurance regulator to...
Oct 3 2019 // A huge fire destroyed six homes and damaged a seventh home in a North Carolina beach town, and officials are trying to determine what sparked it.News outlets report the fire first broke out around 6 p.m. Sunday, and it...
Oct 1 2019 // A North Carolina jury has ordered three law enforcement officials to pay $8.3 million for violating a man’s civil rights when they beat and shot him while he was driving on his own property six years ago. WRAL-TV...
Sep 30 2019 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance and the North Carolina Rate Bureau have settled a legal dispute over a proposed premium increase for homeowners insurance rates, according to a statement from NCDOI.NCDOI has also...
Sep 27 2019 // Health officials in western North Carolina say one person has died from Legionnaires’ disease and several others have been sickened.Kim Horton is a spokeswoman for the Henderson County Department of Public Health....
Sep 26 2019 // Health departments in two North Carolina counties are looking into multiple cases of Legionnaires’ disease at the North Carolina Mountain State Fair. The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services said in a news...