All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Feb 5 2019 // Digital property/casualty insurance platform CoverHound announced it has raised a $58 million Series D funding round. Global specialist insurer Hiscox led the round, along with additional investors including Chubb, Aflac...
Feb 5 2019 // The annual auto insurance filing from the North Carolina Rate Bureau to the North Carolina Department of Insurance calls for an overall statewide average increase of 7.6 percent, according to a statement from Insurance...
Feb 5 2019 // President Donald Trump has approved a major disaster declaration for North Carolina to provide for federal assistance to areas impacted by Tropical Storm Michael last fall. The declaration was announced in a news release...
Jan 29 2019 // For the seventh year in a row, the Florida insurance industry, regulators, and consumer advocates will push for reforms to the state’s assignment of benefits issue that has now become an insurance crisis, according...
Jan 25 2019 // The federal government shutdown is delaying disaster relief for some North Carolina farmers. The Fayetteville Observer reported last week the shutdown has mostly closed the federal Farm Service Agency responsible for a...
Jan 25 2019 // A federal jury has awarded $7 million in damages to a North Carolina trooper and his wife for when a passenger bus plowed into the trooper’s sport-utility vehicle as he responded to an Interstate 40 accident. Court...
Jan 24 2019 // Authorities in North Carolina say one person is dead and two people are hurt after a barrier collapsed at a construction site.News outlets report the N.C. Department of Labor said the accident occurred Tuesday at a site...