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#1 New North Carolina Laws on Rioting, Power Station Attacks, Guns Take Effect

Dec 4 2023 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — New or tougher criminal penalties against rioting, vandalizing power stations and harassing law enforcement officers and emergency workers are among North Carolina laws approved this year that...

#2 North Carolina Insurance Agent Can’t Appeal Sentence in $700,000 Fraud

Dec 13 2023 // A former North Carolina insurance agent who pleaded guilty to defrauding trucking company clients and a premium finance company of hundreds of thousands of dollars cannot challenge her sentence and restitution order, a...

#3 Former Allstate Agent in North Carolina Agrees to Abide by Non-Compete Agreement

Nov 28 2023 // A former Allstate insurance agent in North Carolina has agreed to stop selling competing products to her former clients and to return confidential client information to Allstate.A federal judge finalized an agreement...

#4 Alabama Supreme Court Orders Lindberg and Company to Pay $11M Note to Med Firm

Dec 5 2023 // The legal and financial troubles for former insurance executive and international businessman Greg Lindberg, now awaiting a second trial on charges that he tried to bribe a state insurance commissioner, has spread far...

#5 North Carolina Hog Farms Were Properly Permitted, State Appeals Court Says

Dec 7 2023 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Several hog farms in North Carolina were properly allowed to collect energy from the animals` waste, a state appeals court said Tuesday, ruling that their permit applications were scrutinized...

#6 Southerners Rekindling ‘Fire Culture’ to Boost Longleaf Pine Range

Dec 20 2023 // WEST END, N.C. (AP) — Jesse Wimberley burns the woods with neighbors.Using new tools to revive an old communal tradition, they set fire to wiregrasses and forest debris with a drip torch, corralling embers with leaf...

#7 NC Appeals Court Says Injured Off-Duty Law Officers are Joint Employees

Dec 27 2023 // The question has arisen many times around the country: Is an injured, off-duty law officer, moonlighting on security or traffic control, considered an employee of the law enforcement division or a private company?The North...

#8 Lindberg Convicted in Second Trial on Attempting to Bribe NC Insurance Commissioner

May 16 2024 // A federal jury on Wednesday convicted Greg Lindberg, who once controlled two life insurance companies, a reinsurance company and multiple other businesses, and his co-defendant John Gray, of attempting to bribe the North...

#9 NC Governor’s Pandemic Rules for Bar Closures Were ‘Illogical’ Court Says

Apr 18 2024 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s orders during the COVID-19 pandemic that directed standalone bars to remain shuttered for safety while restaurants that serve alcohol got to reopen were...

#10 Youth at North Carolina Therapy Camp Couldn’t Breathe in Tent, Autopsy Finds

Jun 27 2024 // LAKE TOXAWAY, N.C. (AP) — A 12-year-old boy who was enrolled in a wilderness therapy program for troubled youths in North Carolina died in February from an inability to breathe in the mostly plastic tentlike structure he...

#11 NC Appeals Court Gives Green Light to Liquidation of Lindberg Insurance Firms

Mar 6 2024 // Former North Carolina insurance and business mogul Greg Lindberg has lost an appeal on whether one of his companies can delay the liquidation of two of his troubled life insurance carriers.North Carolina Insurance Mike...

#12 FEMA Workers Change Response Tactics in North Carolina After Threats

Oct 16 2024 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Federal disaster workers paused and then changed some of their hurricane-recovery efforts in North Carolina, including abandoning door-to-door visits, after receiving threats that they could be...

#13 NC High Court Allows Liquidation of Lindberg Insurers; He Owes $524M in Fed Case

Aug 28 2024 // Greg Lindberg, the North Carolina insurance and business executive now awaiting sentencing on a bribery conviction, can’t escape a $524 million arbitration and civil judgment against him, a federal appeals court...

#14 Drone Pilot Can’t Do Mapping Without North Carolina Surveyor’s License, Court Says

May 22 2024 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina board that regulates land surveyors didn’t violate a drone photography pilot’s constitutional rights when it told him to stop advertising and offering aerial map services...

#15 Stacking Cracks: 30 Years of UIM Coverage Rules Are Wrong, NC Supreme Court Says

Mar 26 2024 // North Carolinians can no longer stack underinsured motorist policies to compare to liability limits in order to boost the amount of coverage in an accident, the state Supreme Court said last week in a decision that...

#16 North Carolina Calculates Helene Damage at $58B, Far More than Florence

Oct 25 2024 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The catastrophic flooding and destruction caused by Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina likely caused at least a record $53 billion in damages and recovery needs, Gov. Roy Cooper’s...

#17 Surgeons Can’t Slip Out of GEICO’s Latest RICO Fraud Lawsuit in NC, Judge Says

Jun 6 2024 // GEICO Insurance companies have continued their campaign against alleged auto insurance fraud actors, including some well-known physicians and medical clinics. And a federal judge ruled this week that two of those...

#18 NC Captive Feud: Sherbrooke Says Managers Took Funds, Stole Risk-Gauging Software

May 22 2024 // North Carolina regulators last month announced that the state is now the third-largest domicile for captive insurance companies with more than 311 captive firms in the state, thanks in part to favorable premium tax rates,...

#19 North Carolina Supreme Court Says Speedway Can Sue Over COVID Closure

Aug 27 2024 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina racetrack, shuttered briefly for defying state gathering limits during the pandemic, can sue the top health regulator on allegations that Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration...

#20 Shooting of Power Equipment Linked to Power Outage in North Carolina

Jun 19 2024 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Damage to a utility’s power equipment by gunfire found in Durham was associated with an outage that left hundreds of people without power earlier this week, the company said.About 730 people...