Latest North Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
North Carolina Town to Challenge Federal Flood Maps
Sep 14 2015 // Officials in Wrightsville Beach, N.C., plan to challenge new federal flood plain maps in a move that could save some residents thousands of dollars in insurance premiums. The StarNews of Wilmington reports the town’s...
North Carolina Governor Approves Ridesharing Regulations
Sep 10 2015 // Gov. Pat McCrory has signed into law state regulations for ridesharing companies where potential customers use smartphone apps to hail drivers and complete cashless transactions. McCrory signed the legislation Sept. 4 at...
North Carolina Insurance Head Urges Lawmakers Not to Cut Driver’s Ed Funding
Sep 8 2015 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has spoken out against a proposal by state lawmakers to eliminate funding for driver education through public high schools as a way to help close a deficit in the state...
Fraud Roundup
Sep 7 2015 // 2 North Carolina Residents Accused of Insurance Fraud in Multiple Counties North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced the arrests of Pamela Christine Liles, 31, and Travis Paul Randolph, 30, of...
North Carolina Man Accused of Defrauding Insurance Companies
Sep 4 2015 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced the arrest of William Jeffery Barnhardt, 65, of West End, Moore County; he is charged with two counts each of insurance fraud and obtaining property by false...
North Carolina Lawmakers Try to Expand Number of Erosion-Controlling Structures
Sep 4 2015 // Some legislators are once again trying to expand the number of certain erosion-controlling structures allowed by law along the North Carolina coast. This time, they’re trying to do it through the state...
North Carolina Lawmakers Send Ridesharing Regulations to Governor
Aug 31 2015 // The North Carolina legislature gave its final OK to state regulations August 27 for ridesharing companies such as Uber, Lyft and Sidecar, a move supporters say will protect consumers and drivers of the mobile phone-based...
2 North Carolina Residents Accused of Insurance Fraud in Multiple Counties
Aug 28 2015 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced the arrests of Pamela Christine Liles, 31, and Travis Paul Randolph, 30, of Siloam. Department of Insurance criminal investigators accuse Liles of insurance...
North Carolina Looks at Regulating Zip Lines
Aug 27 2015 // As 12-year-old Bonnie Sanders Burney soared over a 40-foot ravine at her sleep-away camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the tether attaching her to a dual zip line snapped – plunging her to her death. Her tether had been...
The Hilb Group Acquires JWB Insurance in North Carolina
Aug 18 2015 // The Hilb Group LLC announced today that it acquired JWB Insurance Group, an independent agency in Wilmington, North Carolina. The transaction became effective Aug. 1, 2015. The terms of the deal were not...
Florida’s Heritage Approved to Write P/C Insurance in North Carolina
Aug 14 2015 // Heritage Insurance Holdings Inc., a property/casualty insurance holding company in Clearwater, Florida, announced that its subsidiary Heritage Property & Casualty Company (Heritage P&C) was approved to write...
Blue Cross Seeks 34% Rate Hike in North Carolina for ACA Plans
Aug 13 2015 // North Carolina’s largest health insurer says higher-than-anticipated costs after two years of selling federally subsidized coverage has forced it to seek premium increases even greater than it thought would be...
GlaxoSmithKline Shuts Down N.C. Factory Due to Legionnaires’ Bacteria
Aug 12 2015 // Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline closed its North Carolina factory on Tuesday after testing at a cooling tower found bacteria that causes deadly Legionnaire’s disease, a company spokeswoman said. The Legionella bacteria was...
Hub International Acquires Triangle Insurance in North Carolina
Aug 10 2015 // Insurance brokerage Hub International Limited announced that it has acquired the assets of Triangle Insurance Services Inc., an independent insurance agency based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Terms of the acquisition were...
8,000 Customers Affected by Water Main Break in North Carolina City
Aug 5 2015 // Officials in the City of Lexington, N.C., have declared a state of emergency after a break occurred in a 16-inch water main. The Dispatch of Lexington reports restaurants and other businesses closed on Monday. City offices...
Firefighters Work to Contain North Carolina Forest Fire Threatening Homes
Aug 4 2015 // Firefighters are working to contain a wildfire burning in the Pisgah National Forest in McDowell County, North Carolina. The U.S. Forest Service said Sunday anyone traveling along Interstate 40 and U.S. Highway 70 can...
Ridesharing Rules Make it Through North Carolina Senate
Jul 27 2015 // A deal brokered between North Carolina lawmakers and ridesharing services such as Uber and Lyft to place regulations on the app-based companies has passed the Senate and will go to the House. The Senate passed a bill July...
North Carolina Lawmakers Approve School District Lawsuit Moratorium
Jul 24 2015 // School districts in North Carolina may soon be barred for five years from suing their counties over the amount of funding they receive under a new provision approved by the state Senate. The Senate passed on July 22 a bill...
Environmental Groups Ask North Carolina Judge to Dismiss Part of Duke Energy Suit
Jul 24 2015 // A coalition of environmental groups is supporting Duke Energy’s effort to dismiss part of long-running lawsuit over pollution leaking from the company’s coal ash dumps. The Southern Environmental Law Center...
North Carolina Settles Inmate Death Lawsuit for $2.5M
Jul 23 2015 // The North Carolina Department of Public Safety says its Division of Adult Correction has reached a $2.5 million settlement with the estate of a man with mental illness who died of thirst after being held in solitary...
