All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...