All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 26 2023 // North Carolina’s Republican supermajority in the legislature has thrown a curveball to the state’s insurance commissioner and fire marshal, a position that until recently has mostly stayed above partisan...
Sep 25 2023 // ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Residents in parts of coastal North Carolina and Virginia experienced flooding Saturday after Tropical Storm Ophelia made landfall near a North Carolina barrier island, bringing rain, damaging...
Sep 22 2023 // A potential tropical storm, so far unnamed, was predicted to make landfill in North Carolina Saturday, then push across eastern Virginia and Maryland by Sunday.The storm was off the coast of South Carolina and North...
Sep 22 2023 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The family of a North Carolina man who died after driving his car off a collapsed bridge while following Google Maps directions is suing the technology giant for negligence, claiming it had been...
Sep 20 2023 // Hylant, one of the larger privately held insurance brokers in the country, has made a number of personnel changes in recent weeks.Alejandro Reyes will lead Ohio-based Hylant’s business risk consulting teams, which...
Sep 18 2023 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Officials in North Carolina have denied a permit for a Christmas parade after a truck towing a float struck and killed a girl during last year’s event.The city of Raleigh announced Thursday...
Sep 8 2023 // RALEIGH. N.C. (AP) — Portions of a lawsuit filed by several North Carolina bars and their operators seeking financial damages from the state over COVID-19 restrictions that shuttered doors and curtailed business can...
Sep 6 2023 // A North Carolina insurance agent will have to return to court to determine if he or the client acted negligently by failing to disclose details about an insured’s property, the state’s Court of Appeals decided...
Sep 5 2023 // CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — As sirens blared across the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and cell phones lit up with alerts of an active shooter, Micah Baldonado cried quietly at his desk while his teacher...
Aug 30 2023 // A federal judge in North Carolina has ruled against a Chubb subsidiary in an attempt to rid itself of defense-cost obligations in opioid-related litigation by enforcing two policy exclusions.According to court documents in...
Aug 22 2023 // CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — A third child has died following a weekend house fire in North Carolina, officials said.Fire-fighting crews were dispatched to a one-story public housing duplex in Concord, northeast of...
Aug 18 2023 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican legislative leaders finalized on Wednesday their efforts to curb the appointment powers of the governor on several boards and commissions, extending a yearslong struggle...
Aug 15 2023 // Two people died when a small plane struck a power line and crashed into a western North Carolina lake, a city official said.The crash occurred about 11:30 a.m. Sunday on Lake Hickory, said Sarah Killian, a spokesperson for...
Aug 15 2023 // A towering North Carolina roller coaster that shut down in June due to a large crack in its support column reopened Thursday after a month of repairs and testing, the park announced on its website.Carowinds amusement park,...
Aug 9 2023 // North Carolina’s insurance commissioner has negotiated a smaller increase on auto insurance rates than the state’s rating agency had requested.The North Carolina Rate Bureau in February requested an average...
Aug 8 2023 // Pfizer Inc. said on Thursday it will begin making some products available only through its emergency ordering process, as part of steps to manage inventory at its North Carolina facility that was struck by a tornado last...
Aug 1 2023 // Another structural issue has been located with a large roller coaster that’s been closed for weeks since a large crack in a support column was discovered, a North Carolina agency confirmed on Friday.A Swiss-based...
Jul 27 2023 // Allstate Insurance is no longer eligible for one of the largest incentive packages from the state of North Carolina, created when Allstate pledged to add more than 2,200 workers in Charlotte. The insurance carrier said too...
Jul 20 2023 // Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. said on Wednesday its plant in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, which is one of the largest sterile injectable product facilities in the world, has suffered heavy damage from a tornado.A company...
Jul 17 2023 // What happens when an insurance carrier, its underwriter, a broker and the insured all forget to make sure a sublimit endorsement on wind-driven rain losses is included in a multimillion dollar property policy?In the case...