All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 24 2014 // The Dan Pittman Insurance Agency Inc. of Windsor, North Carolina, has joined The Iroquois Group network, according to Ann A. Harmon, agency principal, and Iroquois. The independent insurance agency joined Iroquois on July...
Jul 18 2014 // Insured losses from Hurricane Arthur will not exceed $250 million from wind and coastal flooding, catastrophe risk modeling firm RMS said.According to RMS, the expected loss covers damages to Residential, commercial,...
Jul 17 2014 // The North Carolina Senate has passed a bill which requires moped drivers to register their vehicles with the state and carry insurance. The vote was 36-11.It remains to seen if the House will go along. The House measure...
Jul 17 2014 // North Carolina’s insurance commissioner has postponed until October a hearing into a request by homeowners insurance companies to raise rates by an average of 25 percent statewide.Commissioner Wayne Goodwin said the...
Jul 11 2014 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin said North Carolina is now an even more attractive home for captive insurance companies with the enactment of a law allowing new captive types and providing some...
Jul 6 2014 // Hurricane Arthur made landfall before midnight on July 3 near Cape Lookout, North Carolina, as a Category 2 hurricane. Maximum sustained winds at landfall were 100 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center.State...
Jul 3 2014 // Hurricane Arthur gained strength as it bore down on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, where some residents and visitors were ordered to evacuate as the Atlantic’s first storm of the season moved north.Arthur was...
Jul 2 2014 // Tropical Storm Arthur is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane within two days and threaten North Carolina’s Outer Banks, where tourists are visiting for the Fourth of July holiday, while also adding to heavy rain...
Jul 1 2014 // A tropical depression off the coast of Florida is forecast to grow into Hurricane Arthur and strike North Carolina’s Outer Banks during the Fourth of July holiday.The storm was stationary 95 miles (153 kilometers)...
Jun 30 2014 // A small Asheville food company will be carrying a new name because a winery didn’t like the old one The Asheville Citizen-Times reported that husband-and-wife team Tom Gallo and Susan Devitt have been forced by E....
Jun 27 2014 // Efforts by business leaders to give companies more protections from North Carolina product liability lawsuits appear derailed in the House. A House panel this week endorsed a Senate measure that previously would have made...
Jun 22 2014 // Moped drivers across North Carolina will have to register their bikes by next summer if a House measure approved last week becomes law, which opponents say would hurt low-income people who have no other means to get...
Jun 18 2014 // A bill backed by key North Carolina lawmakers would require Duke Energy to close all of its coal ash dumps across the state within 15 years, with much of the toxic material going into lined landfills.The Associated Press...
Jun 18 2014 // The sweet tea served in the tidy kitchen of Joanne Thomas’ antebellum home in Dukeville, North Carolina, comes with an ominous warning.“It’s made with bottled water,” says Thomas, a spry...
Jun 16 2014 // Marsh & McLennan Agency, Senn DunnMarsh & McLennan Agency LLC has acquired Senn Dunn Insurance in North Carolina. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1927, Senn Dunn has annual revenue of...
Jun 13 2014 // Before dawn on Feb. 23, Darius Williams ran his Nissan Sentra off a North Carolina interstate at 80 miles per hour. A length of guardrail pierced his door, according to the police report, driving the 24-year-old’s...
Jun 12 2014 // A federal judge says a lawsuit accusing Duke Energy coal ash pits of polluting a lake near Wilmington can move forward.The Southern Environmental Law Center filed a lawsuit last year on behalf of environmental groups,...
Jun 2 2014 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA) said it has acquired Senn Dunn Insurance in North Carolina. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Founded in 1927, Senn Dunn has annual revenue of approximately $30 million and...
Jun 2 2014 // A North Carolina commission is asking scientists to only make a 30-year prediction of how fast the ocean will rise off the state’s coast.The N.C. Coastal Resources Commission caused an uproar in 2010 when its...
May 29 2014 // By snapping a picture with his mobile phone, Hersh Tapadia demonstrated how an app developed by the Durham-based anti-counterfeiting technology company CertiRx Corp. could find fraudulent changes on a prescription drug...