All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 24 2014 // In perusing judicial decisions, it is not unusual to discover answers to questions one never thought to ask. One such question is whether a forklift is a “motor vehicle” under uninsured/underinsured motorists...
Mar 21 2014 // The North Carolina legislature’s government watchdog agency says the state still does not have a good handle on how effective local driver’s education programs for high school students are financially or how...
Mar 13 2014 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced Wednesday the arrest of Tenquisha Shancaza Durham of Gastonia, N.C. She was charged with one count each of insurance fraud and obtaining property by false...
Mar 12 2014 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced the arrest of Stacy Lasondo Jackson of Jacksonville, Fla.. She has been charged with 10 counts each of insurance fraud and obtaining property by false...
Mar 11 2014 // State and local governments in North Carolina could use unmanned aircraft for law enforcement, hurricane recovery and monitoring wildlife, a new state report suggests.While the report issued by State Chief Information...
Mar 10 2014 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has scheduled a hearing on August 6 in Raleigh on insurers’ request to raise homeowners insurance rates an average of 25.3 percent.Goodwin said the proposed rates...
Feb 28 2014 // North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory is asking Duke Energy to develop a plan to clean up the coal ash spill on the Dan River and make sure other coal-ash sites are safe. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported that McCrory...
Feb 27 2014 // A team of academic researchers equipped with a drone estimate that about 35 million gallons of coal ash and contaminated wastewater spilled into the Dan River earlier this month. Wake Forest University researchers released...
Feb 24 2014 // North Carolina auto insurers say no rate increase is needed for auto insurance policies in the coming year.Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin said the Department of Insurance has received the annual auto insurance rate...
Feb 24 2014 // A captain’s “reckless decision to sail into the well-forecasted path of Hurricane Sandy” was the probable cause of the sinking of a tall ship off the North Carolina coast in October, 2012, the National...
Feb 21 2014 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has scheduled a hearing on August 6 in Raleigh on the insurers’ request to raise homeowners insurance rates an average of 25.3 percent.Goodwin said the proposed...
Feb 13 2014 // The winter storm that cut electricity to more than half a million customers across the South and grounded 10,000 flights this week turned its power on the U.S. Northeast, bringing heavy snow from Virginia to Maine.In...
Feb 12 2014 // North Carolina has asked a state judge to put a controversial settlement deal with U.S. power company Duke Energy over pollution on hold after a massive coal ash spill into a local river raised fresh concerns about water...
Feb 12 2014 // A Belmont, North Carolina woman charged with hitting and killing a pedestrian has apologized.Forty-five-year-old Belinda Strange Hudspeth apologized to the victim’s family in court on Monday. Seventy-five-year-old...
Feb 12 2014 // A judge who found what he called a “startling pattern” of abuse by plaintiffs’ lawyers may have shifted the landscape of asbestos litigation with a ruling in favor of manufacturers.In a decree last month,...
Feb 11 2014 // Over the last year, environmental groups have tried three times to use the federal Clean Water Act to force Duke Energy to clear out leaky coal ash dumps like the one that ruptured last week, spewing enough toxic sludge...
Feb 10 2014 // A North Carolina woman faces murder and other charges after authorities say she was texting a message when she hit and killed a 75-year-old woman walking to visit a neighbor.The North Carolina Highway Patrol said...
Feb 6 2014 // North Carolina auto insurers say no rate increase is needed for auto insurance policies in the coming year.Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin said the Department of Insurance has received the annual auto insurance rate...
Feb 5 2014 // Marsh & McLennan Agency (MMA), a subsidiary of insurance broker Marsh, said it has acquired The Bond Network, a surety bonding agency based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Terms of the transaction were not...
Jan 28 2014 // North Carolina homeowners are looking at insurance cost increases averaging 25 percent starting in August if the state’s regulator goes along, and his office heard Friday from some of those upset about the prospect...