All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 25 2016 // Duke Energy Corp. announced plans to expand its renewable energy from livestock waste, adding poop power to investments the country’s largest electric company has made in whirring wind turbines and acres of solar...
Mar 21 2016 // Windy and dry conditions are causing an increase in the number of wildfires in the North Carolina mountains.Media outlets report that a 60-acre fire near Bearwallow Mountain southeast of Asheville that firefighters have...
Mar 18 2016 // A Fayetteville, North Carolina, couple is accused by authorities of trying to defraud an insurance company after submitting altered receipts for property they said was stolen.The Fayetteville Observer reports Maria Alta...
Mar 16 2016 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced the arrest of Dale McKinley Montford, 55, of Jacksonville; he is charged with two counts of insurance fraud and one count each of obtaining property by false...
Mar 15 2016 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance saved or recovered $29.8 million for North Carolinians in 2015, according to a statement from North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin. In 2015, the Department of...
Mar 11 2016 // A North Carolina therapist who said she was fired after reporting patient neglect has won a $3.6 million award from a Buncombe County jury. The Asheville Citizen-Times reports the Superior Court jury awarded the money...
Mar 8 2016 // Duke Energy is violating state pollution laws because its coal ash pits are polluting nearby waterways, North Carolina environmental regulators said Friday. Fines are being considered.The state Division of Water Resources...
Mar 7 2016 // Florida’s Citizens Launches Campaign to Combat Abuse ClaimsCitizens Property Insurance Corp. has launched a multi-faceted education campaign in an attempt to combat what it has called a disturbing increase of fraud...
Mar 1 2016 // Officials say fatal drug overdoses in North Carolina have jumped from 2002 to 2014.The Charlotte Observer reports federal data shows that overdoses killed as many as 16 people per 100,000 residents in the state in 2014...
Feb 25 2016 // Venture Insurance Programs, a national insurance program administrator, has acquired Tidal Solutions, LLC, a Charlotte, NC-based managing general underwriter serving the North American specialty commercial marine...
Feb 23 2016 // A North Carolina judge dismissed a lawsuit Friday in which two former University of North Carolina athletes alleged the school failed to provide them and other athletes a quality education by directing them toward sham...
Feb 22 2016 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced the arrest of Jacob Christopher Mullins, 28, of Fremont; he is charged with one count each of embezzlement by an insurance agent, financial card fraud and...
Feb 8 2016 // In 2015, the North Carolina General Assembly authorized and funded a study regarding prescription drug formularies in workers’ compensation claims brought by state employees. While this statute does not create a...
Feb 2 2016 // North Carolina’s captive insurance program continues to exceed expectations as the program begins its third full year of operation, according to North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin.The North Carolina...
Feb 1 2016 // The North Carolina Supreme Court upheld the firings of sheriff’s deputies who declined to donate to their boss’s political campaign, ruling Jan. 26 that they aren’t covered by a state law protecting...
Jan 26 2016 // A massive winter storm that hit the Southeast and East Coast over the weekend set a snowfall record in West Virginia, caused tornadoes in Mississippi and stranded motorists on a cold highway in Kentucky overnight....
Jan 25 2016 // The commission responsible for enforcing workers’ compensation laws in North Carolina has cracked down in the last year on employers who don’t carry proper insurance, collecting $1 million in civil fines from...
Jan 22 2016 // States across the Southeast, including Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia, were hit by extreme winter weather this week and forecasters say it isn’t finished yet. Another two feet of snow is still...
Jan 22 2016 // A dangerous winter storm will bring snow by the foot to the U.S. mid-Atlantic, including Washington, threatening at least 50 million people in its path while canceling thousands of flights and closing schools and...
Jan 19 2016 // Hub International Limited (Hub), a global insurance brokerage, has acquired the assets of RPG Solutions, Inc. (RPG) of North Carolina. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Based in Raleigh, RPG specializes in...