All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 17 2018 // A lawsuit filed against a North Carolina school system and its board of education says an elementary school in need of repairs was discriminated against because of race.The Winston-Salem Journal reports the lawsuit, filed...
Aug 13 2018 // A company is paying less than half the fine workplace safety officials assessed for a North Carolina construction accident that killed three workers and badly injured a fourth.News organizations reported the deadly 2015...
Aug 8 2018 // Jax, LLC, which operates a Golden Corral restaurant in Matthews, N.C., has agreed to pay $85,000 and provide other relief to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), according to a...
Aug 7 2018 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance announced multiple fraud enforcement actions during the month of July.Insurance fraud costs American consumers approximately $80 billion dollars a year. According to North...
Aug 6 2018 // A federal jury decided Friday that the world’s largest pork producer should pay $473.5 million to neighbors of three North Carolina industrial-scale hog farms for unreasonable nuisances they suffered from odors,...
Aug 6 2018 // Arch Capital Group Ltd. (ACGL), a globally diversified financial services group providing insurance, reinsurance and mortgage insurance, will open an operational hub in Raleigh, N.C., and create 365 new jobs over four...
Jul 31 2018 // Arch Capital Group Ltd. (ACGL), a globally diversified financial services group providing insurance, reinsurance and mortgage insurance, will open an operational hub in Raleigh, N.C., and create 365 new jobs over four...
Jul 23 2018 // Excess and surplus lines (E&S) insurance premium recorded by the 15 managing service offices in the United States increased 9.4 percent as of the 2018 mid-year point, the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX)...
Jul 23 2018 // At least four people have been hurt after a fire started at an apartment complex in North Carolina’s largest city.The Charlotte Fire Department said firefighters were called around 4:30 a.m. Friday and had to call...
Jul 20 2018 // A fire caused heavy damage at a North Carolina scrap metal yard, forced evacuations from a nearby neighborhood and cut electricity to around 1,400 customers.Officials in Salisbury said in a statement the fire erupted...
Jul 19 2018 // North Carolina and federal health officials want to test whether neighbors of a chemical company are carrying little-understood industrial compounds in their bodies. North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human...
Jul 18 2018 // One man has died and another was hurt when a trash container fell off a forklift at a soup plant in North Carolina.The Robeson County Sheriff’s Office told news outlets that 59-year-old Alex Radford of Laurinburg...
Jul 16 2018 // The North Carolina captive insurance program, established in 2013, had an estimated $30 million impact on the state in 2017, according to a statement from the North Carolina Insurance Department.The $30 million estimate...
Jul 16 2018 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance has ended its legal dispute with the North Carolina Rate Bureau on its proposal for an 18.9 percent dwelling insurance rate increase and instead reached a settlement that will...
Jul 12 2018 // Authorities have arrested 10 North Carolina volunteer firefighters and accused them of setting fire to abandoned buildings and woods over a year and a half.News outlets report Robeson County Sheriff Ken Sealey said in a...
Jul 12 2018 // A.M. Best has upgraded the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating to “bb+” from “bb” and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of B (Fair) of Discovery Insurance Co. of Kinston, N.C. The outlook for these...
Jul 11 2018 // An explosion and fire at a propane cylinder plant in North Carolina has injured two workers.Sampson County spokeswoman Susan Holder tells news outlets emergency management received a call of multiple explosions at the...
Jul 5 2018 // A federal jury in North Carolina has punished the world’s largest pork producer, deciding Smithfield Foods should pay two neighbors more than $25 million for unreasonable nuisances they suffered from odors, flies and...
Jul 3 2018 // The North Carolina captive insurance program, established in 2013, had an estimated $30 million impact on the state in 2017, according to a statement from the North Carolina Insurance Department.The $30 million estimate...
Jun 28 2018 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance has ended its legal dispute with the North Carolina Rate Bureau on its proposal for an 18.9 percent dwelling insurance rate increase and instead reached a settlement that will...