All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 20 2017 // The North Carolina Rate Bureau is alerting all member companies that it has withdrawn its request for a 19.6 percent rate increase on dwelling policies due to a data error on its Dwelling Policy Program revisions announced...
Jan 18 2017 // Neighbors living near Duke Energy’s unlined coal ash pits around North Carolina are being offered payment of future water bills plus a $5,000 “goodwill” payment to households concerned their water wells...
Jan 17 2017 // Officials in Winston-Salem, N.C., say a kerosene and gasoline mix-up at a convenience store led to two fires, both at houses.The Winston-Salem Journal reports Winston-Salem Fire Department Division Chief Sandy Shepherd...
Jan 13 2017 // Baxter International has agreed to pay $18 million to resolve its criminal and civil liability over claims its unit ignored mold in air filters at a plant where sterile intravenous solutions were made, the U.S. Justice...
Jan 11 2017 // An 85-year-old Surry County man who died from prolonged exposure to cold is North Carolina’s second fatality from the winter storm, state officials said Monday as the bitter cold dug into the state for another...
Jan 9 2017 // Snow and sleet pounded a large swath of the U.S. East Coast on Saturday, coating roads with ice and causing hundreds of crashes. Thousands of people lost power and forecasters warned of blizzard-like conditions from...
Jan 9 2017 // Grades assigned to the insurance regulatory systems in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin range from A to D in a...
Jan 9 2017 // North Carolina ranks the worst of all 50 states when it comes to insurance regulation, according to a 2016 insurance regulation report card by an insurance industry think tank.The R Street Institute’s 2016 Insurance...
Jan 9 2017 // No South Central state had the best score and none had the worst in a report recently released by a conservative-leaning research organization that annually assesses the effectiveness states’ insurance regulatory...
Jan 3 2017 // North Carolina’s new insurance commissioner was sworn in just as soon as 2017 began.Republican Mike Causey of Guilford County held his swear-in ceremony just after midnight at a fire station at the Guil-Rand Fire...
Dec 28 2016 // Brentwood Services Administrators Inc. has selected Theresa Vinson as a new senior claim representative in the Raleigh, N.C., office, according to Jeff Pettus, president and CEO of BSA.In her position as senior claim...
Dec 28 2016 // Authorities say a young boy has been killed by an unmanned truck that rolled down a hill after it wasn’t properly secured at a construction site. Hillsborough Police Chief Duane Hampton says the 5-year-old boy was...
Dec 22 2016 // For the second year in a row, Vermont has been graded at the top of the class as having the best insurance regulatory system, while North Carolina has again been graded as having the worst, according to the fifth edition...
Dec 22 2016 // No South Central state had the best score and none had the worst in a report recently released by a conservative-leaning research organization that annually assesses the effectiveness states’ insurance regulatory...
Dec 22 2016 // Grades assigned to the insurance regulatory systems in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin range from A to D in a...
Dec 22 2016 // North Carolina ranks the worst of all 50 states when it comes to insurance regulation, according to a 2016 insurance regulation report card by an insurance industry think tank.The R Street Institute’s 2016 Insurance...
Dec 19 2016 // Light freezing rain caused hundreds of wrecks in central North Carolina along icy roads, leading to two fatal wrecks in Charlotte.Police and emergency workers reported more than 100 crashes overnight Saturday in both...
Dec 19 2016 // The North Carolina Rate Bureau (NCRB) has requested a 19.6 percent rate increase on all dwelling insurance policies, according to a statement from the North Carolina Department of Insurance.NCDOI announced Dec. 1 it is...
Dec 19 2016 // The National Flood Insurance Program has paid out more than $162 million to victims in the five-state area hit by Hurricane Matthew–Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, the Federal Emergency...
Dec 16 2016 // North Carolina lawmakers on Wednesday finalized a $201 million hurricane and wildfire relief package sought by Gov. Pat McCrory in a special session he called.The Senate and House unanimously approved the final aid...