All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 29 2019 // AmWINS Group, Inc., a global distributor of specialty insurance products and services, has named Alycia Kiley as senior vice president at the company, focused on building strategic partnerships with the firm’s retail...
Mar 28 2019 // United Heartland, a national workers’ compensation insurance company, has promoted Dana Pierce to regional director in Charlotte, N.C.Pierce began his United Heartland career in Underwriting in 2007. Most recently,...
Mar 27 2019 // United Parcel Service Inc. and a startup drone partner began the first continuing commercial drone deliveries in the U.S., making a short flight carrying a medical sample between North Carolina hospitals on Tuesday.The...
Mar 22 2019 // What motivates people to take a risk in an industry dedicated to managing risk? New independent agencies are born of various circumstances. Sometimes it’s about seizing an opportunity that comes along; other times,...
Mar 20 2019 // A North Carolina city has paid the family of a man who was hit and killed by a speeding police car in 2017. The Charlotte Observer reports the city of Charlotte paid $950,000 in December to the family of James Michael...
Mar 19 2019 // A sitting North Carolina legislator has been nominated by Gov. Roy Cooper to serve on the state Industrial Commission. Ken Goodman Photo courtesy of Ballotpedia Cooper told legislators at the beginning of the month of his...
Mar 18 2019 // TriSure Corporation has been acquired by Alera Group, a national insurance firm, effective March 1, 2019. Terms of the transaction were not announced.With over 1,500 employees in more than 70 locations across the nation,...
Mar 15 2019 // In June 2005, a 63-year-old woman was thrown from a tram at the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro. The vehicle tipped over onto her, seriously injuring her shoulder and requiring years of treatment. The state paid out $85,000...
Mar 13 2019 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance announced multiple fraud enforcement actions during the first two months of 2019.Insurance fraud costs American consumers approximately $80 billion dollars a year. According to...
Mar 11 2019 // Smithfield Foods was found responsible Friday for a fifth time for nuisances neighbors suffered from waste generated by thousands of the company’s hogs. Jurors determined the pork giant should pay $420,000 after four...
Feb 27 2019 // North Carolina’s environmental agency says a finalized settlement agreement allows it to make sure a Fortune 500 chemical company follows through on promises to clean up industrial chemicals in the water or face...
Feb 25 2019 // Jackson Sumner & Associates (JSA) has hired Joi Neike as director of Business Development for the North Carolina-based company. Joi Neike Neike has worked in the marketing and communications field throughout the...
Feb 22 2019 // The high-profile failure of a Nike Inc. basketball shoe on Wednesday night was more than an epic embarrassment for the athletic brand. It could be a product-liability case.Duke University star freshman Zion Williamson...
Feb 21 2019 // A chemical maker’s North Carolina plant may have broken federal law by failing to notify the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency before it started manufacturing and repurposing new industrial compounds, the agency...
Feb 19 2019 // The North Carolina Rate Bureau has filed a request to increase homeowners’ insurance rates for mobile home policies of at least 19 percent, according to the North Carolina Department of Insurance (NCDOI).The NCRB,...
Feb 18 2019 // In response to a filing by North Carolina insurers for a 17.4 percent rate increase in homeowners insurance rates, North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey has set a Sept. 4, 2019 hearing date, saying he does not...
Feb 18 2019 // What motivates people to take a risk in an industry dedicated to managing risk? New independent agencies are born of various circumstances. Sometimes it’s about seizing an opportunity that comes along; other times,...
Feb 13 2019 // Ryan Specialty Group, LLC has reached a definitive agreement to acquire the assets and operations of International Specialty Insurance Services Inc. (ISI), an independently owned managing general underwriter with offices...
Feb 11 2019 // In response to a filing by North Carolina insurers for a 17.4 percent rate increase in homeowners insurance rates, North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey has set a Sept. 4, 2019 hearing date, saying he does not...
Feb 8 2019 // Federal prosecutors have sought more documents from the North Carolina Department of Insurance about an industry magnate who’s also donated lots of money recently to North Carolina political causes.A department...