Latest North Carolina Headlines

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Busy Hurricane Season Could Test NC’s ‘Weakened’ Building Codes, Experts Say

Jun 3 2024 // The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, predicted to be unusually intense, officially began this week and it could soon bring the first test of a North Carolina law that some insurance experts have said weakens building codes...

A 6th House Has Collapsed into Atlantic on North Carolina’s Outer Banks

May 31 2024 // RODANTHE, N.C. (AP) — Another house has collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean along North Carolina’s coast, the sixth to fall along the Cape Hatteras National Seashore’s beaches in the past four years, according...

NC Commissioner Rejects Proposed 83% Mobile Home-Fire Rate Increase

May 30 2024 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey has scheduled a 2025 hearing date after rejecting the NC Rate Bureau’s request for an 83% average rate increase in mobile home fire policies and a 50% increase in...

North Carolina Will Soon Have Some of the Highest Auto Liability Minimums

May 29 2024 // Starting next year, the minimum automobile liability coverage in North Carolina will jump significantly, thanks to a 2023 law that raised the minimum requirement for the first time in 25 years.Since 1999, North Carolina...

Drone Pilot Can’t Do Mapping Without North Carolina Surveyor’s License, Court Says

May 22 2024 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina board that regulates land surveyors didn’t violate a drone photography pilot’s constitutional rights when it told him to stop advertising and offering aerial map services...

NC Captive Feud: Sherbrooke Says Managers Took Funds, Stole Risk-Gauging Software

May 22 2024 // North Carolina regulators last month announced that the state is now the third-largest domicile for captive insurance companies with more than 311 captive firms in the state, thanks in part to favorable premium tax rates,...

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Lindberg Convicted in Second Trial on Attempting to Bribe NC Insurance Commissioner

May 16 2024 // A federal jury on Wednesday convicted Greg Lindberg, who once controlled two life insurance companies, a reinsurance company and multiple other businesses, and his co-defendant John Gray, of attempting to bribe the North...

Tornadoes in Tennessee, North Carolina Kill Three, Damage Properties

May 9 2024 // High winds, hail, heavy rain and tornadoes battered Southern states from Alabama to North Carolina Wednesday and Thursday morning, leaving three people dead and hundreds of properties with heavy damage.USA Today, CNN and...

NC News Chopper Crash Likely Caused by Shaky Inspections, Loose Parts, NTSB Finds

May 6 2024 // CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Investigators found disconnected and missing hardware aboard a helicopter that crashed in 2022, killing the pilot and a North Carolina television station’s meteorologist, according to the...

NC Agent, Missouri Lawyers Convicted in $4M Tax Shelter, Insurance Scheme

Apr 26 2024 // A federal jury on Thursday found a North Carolina insurance agent and two Missouri lawyers guilty on all counts in a $4 million tax evasion scheme that also defrauded an insurance carrier.The jury in Charlotte, said...

Former Congressman Charged After Collision with State Trooper in Florida

Apr 19 2024 // A former Congressman from North Carolina may soon be facing higher auto insurance premiums after he slammed into the back of a Florida state trooper’s patrol car on Interstate 75 near Naples.Madison Cawthorn, 28, who...

NC Governor’s Pandemic Rules for Bar Closures Were ‘Illogical’ Court Says

Apr 18 2024 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s orders during the COVID-19 pandemic that directed standalone bars to remain shuttered for safety while restaurants that serve alcohol got to reopen were...

North Carolina Adjuster and Son Charged With Embezzlement in Roof Jobs

Apr 18 2024 // A North Carolina mother and son adjusting and contracting team are scheduled to appear in court next month on charges of scamming more than $20,600. Both have been charged with similar offenses in the last two years, the...

NC Rate Bureau Wants 83% Elevation in Mobile Home Fire Rates

Apr 17 2024 // The North Carolina Rate Bureau has requested an 83% average rate increase for mobile home fire policies and a 50% jump for mobile home casualty policies over the next three years.The MH-F increase request is 24.9% for...

King Acquires Dave Alton Agency in North Carolina

Apr 16 2024 // King Insurance Partners, considered one of the fastest-growing U.S. brokerages, has added another producer to its lineup: The Dave Alton Agency, with offices in Greenville, Plymouth and Washington, North Carolina. The...

NC Body Shop Owner Charged With Using Used Parts, Billing for New

Apr 2 2024 // A North Carolina body shop owner has been charged with fraud in connection with the use of used auto parts, instead of new parts that the insurer had paid for. The state Insurance Commissioner’s office said in a...

Update: NC High Court Strikes Down Compensability of Weight-Loss Surgery

Mar 27 2024 // The North Carolina Supreme Court has undone rulings by an appeals court and the state’s Industrial Commission that had granted workers’ compensation insurance payments for a woman’s weight-loss...

Stacking Cracks: 30 Years of UIM Coverage Rules Are Wrong, NC Supreme Court Says

Mar 26 2024 // North Carolinians can no longer stack underinsured motorist policies to compare to liability limits in order to boost the amount of coverage in an accident, the state Supreme Court said last week in a decision that...

North Carolina Labor Chief Rejects Infectious Disease Rules for Workplaces

Mar 19 2024 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s elected labor commissioner has declined to adopt rules sought by worker and civil rights groups that would have set safety and masking directives in workplaces for future...