Best Read North Carolina Headlines
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#1 Ophelia Brings Flooding to Coastal North Carolina, Virginia
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...
#2 NC Family Sues Google After Man Drove off Collapsed Bridge Following Map Directions
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...
#3 Storm Could Bring Winds, Storm Surge to Carolina, Virginia
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...
#4 NC Commissioner, Firefighters Question New Law Making Fire Marshal a Separate Office
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...
#5 People Moves: Hylant Names Reyes Risk Leader and Adds NC Benefits Team Members
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...
#6 NC City Denies Christmas Parade Permit After Girl’s Death Last Year
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...
#7 Agents, Insureds Said Surprised by Nationwide’s 10,000 Nonrenewals in NC
Sep 29 2023 // In February, Nationwide Mutual Insurance filed notice with the North Carolina Department of Insurance that it would non-renew some 10,525 homeowner policies in the state due in large part to the growing risk from climate...
#8 SEC Seeks to Recover Funds from NC Insurance Agent’s Alleged Investment Scam
May 31 2023 // The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has asked a federal court to bar a North Carolina insurance agent and financial advisor from trading securities and to disgorge ill-gotten gains from a real estate scam,...
#9 Students Criticize NC University’s Response to Active Shooter Emergency
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...
#10 NC Appeals Court: Trial Needed After Agent Failed to Disclose Pond on Property
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...
#11 Bogus Claims Threaten to Taint Lejeune Payouts to Veterans
Oct 31 2023 // The government plan to pay billions of dollars to victims of toxic water at Camp Lejeune has unleashed a wave of fraudulent claims that threatens to disrupt or taint what could be one of the largest-ever mass tort...
#12 Crack in NC Roller Coaster Support Reminder of Amusement Park Risks
Jul 5 2023 // A visible crack in the support beam of a North Carolina roller coaster served as a reminder of the risks that sometimes arise with amusement park rides, particularly as families and adrenaline junkies flock to the...
#13 Sublimit Left Out of Policy, But Liberty Mutual Firm Avoids Huge Payout Anyway
Jun 20 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...
#14 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...
#15 When Florida Insurers Go Bust, it Means Changes in North Carolina Insurance Law
Oct 12 2023 // Insurance department omnibus bills in state legislatures are often seen as housekeeping or budget items that may revise regulatory language, fund insurance department positions or clean up the wording of previous laws. But...
#16 NC Coaster Crack May Have Formed 6-10 days Before Ride Was Closed, Official Says
Jul 10 2023 // An ongoing investigation by North Carolina`s Department of Labor found that a large crack in the support column of a towering roller coaster had been visible for at least a week before the amusement park shut it down for...
#17 Federal Court Splits North Carolina Hurricane Insurance Claims
Nov 14 2023 // A North Carolina investment firm and its property insurer have each won partial victories in a dispute over hurricane insurance claims that has been in court since 2019. A federal district court judge for Eastern North...
#18 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...
#19 NC Bars’ Lawsuit Seeking Damages from State Over COVID Closures Can Continue
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...
#20 Appeals Court Upholds Lindberg Fraud Judgment But Orders Damages to Be Determined
Jun 22 2023 // Former insurance executive and businessman Greg Lindberg was found liable for fraud in 2022 in connection with his insolvent insurance companies, but the North Carolina county court did not award damages. Lindberg...
