All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 8 2019 // CICS Services, LLC (CICS) has launched a reinsurance pool for property and casualty coverages. Knox Reinsurance Company Inc., referred to as Knox Re, is licensed and regulated by the North Carolina Department of...
Aug 8 2019 // A North Carolina hearing officer says a state agency can order the country’s largest electric company to excavate all its coal ash pits by 2030 so that they quit polluting neighboring rivers. A state administrative...
Aug 5 2019 // Police in North Carolina say an insurance adjuster found human remains at a house which was destroyed by fire last weekend. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say in a news release that firefighters responded to the fire at the...
Jul 31 2019 // The heating and air conditioning in Carrie Johnson’s home – damaged by Hurricane Matthew in 2016 – still wasn’t fixed when Hurricane Florence flooded her house last September. Now, her home of over 50 years...
Jul 30 2019 // Federal authorities have grabbed nearly $1.5 million that a North Carolina insurance magnate intended to use as political donations, arguing the funds may be forfeited for an attempt to bribe the state’s top...
Jul 25 2019 // A North Carolina university is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit stemming from a fatal shooting on its campus in 2018. The Winston-Salem Journal reports that Wake Forest University is disputing the allegations...
Jul 23 2019 // A North Carolina seafood company has been charged with selling almost 200,000 pounds of foreign crab meat falsely labeled as domestic Atlantic blue crab for $4 million. Charges filed last month by the U.S. Attorney in the...
Jul 23 2019 // The federal, North Carolina and Virginia governments asked a court Thursday to declare the country’s largest electricity company liable for environmental damage from a leak five years ago that left miles of a river...
Jul 22 2019 // Officials at the North Carolina Zoo say a worker was killed after falling from a tree during a rescue drill. News outlets report the state Department of Labor says the zoo worker was an arborist participating in the aerial...
Jul 19 2019 // State records show that nearly three dozen people have been injured in scooter crashes in two North Carolina cities since early 2018.Citing numbers from the N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles, The Charlotte Observer reports...
Jul 16 2019 // North Carolina’s Insurance Commissioner has extended the hearing scheduled for the proposed statewide average 17.4% homeowners’ insurance rate increase by one month from Sept. 4, 2019, to Oct. 2, 2019, saying...
Jul 15 2019 // A North Carolina fire marshal says a large fire destroyed a chicken house and killed 11,000 birds. News sources report Alexander County Fire Marshal Russell Greene says the fire on Thursday morning caused an estimated...
Jul 15 2019 // North Carolina’s insurance commissioner is taking over four insurance companies controlled by a businessman charged with trying to make political bribes.A Raleigh-based state judge issued an order on June 27 allowing...
Jul 8 2019 // North Carolina’s insurance commissioner is taking over four insurance companies controlled by a businessman charged with trying to make political bribes.A Raleigh-based state judge issued an order on June 27 allowing...
Jul 1 2019 // New rules for drivers of ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft operating in North Carolina have cleared the state House. The bill approved unanimously on Thursday is considered a safety measure following the March death...
Jun 27 2019 // A 27-foot (8 meter) long and 20-foot (6 meter) deep sinkhole continues to expand in a North Carolina parking lot.The sinkhole is about half the size of a tractor-trailer and about as deep as a giraffe’s height...
Jun 26 2019 // North Carolina and the federal government are paying over $1.4 million for 24 generators and other help so communities can keep the power on at public infrastructure during storms and disasters. The money will go mostly...
Jun 25 2019 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance has set up five flood insurance conferences statewide between July and September designed to educate the public, insurance and real estate agents of the need to purchase flood...
Jun 25 2019 // A 12-year-old boy who fell from a rock climbing wall at a North Carolina trampoline park has died. News outlets report Altitude Trampoline Park in Gastonia closed Friday out of respect for the boy’s family. Police...
Jun 21 2019 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance announced multiple fraud enforcement actions during the month of May 2019.Insurance fraud costs American consumers approximately $80 billion a year. According to North Carolina...