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#1 Some in Helene-Hit North Carolina Embrace Trump’s Talk of Abolishing FEMA

Feb 18 2025 // SWANNANOA, N.C. (AP) — Emily Russell remembers feeling hopeful after she managed to get an appointment with the Federal Emergency Management Agency not long after Hurricane Helene ripped though her home in Swannanoa,...

#2 Snowy Roads Lead to Hundreds of Crashes in Virginia, North Carolina

Feb 24 2025 // NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Roads in Virginia and North Carolina remained treacherous Thursday as unusually heavy snow led to hundreds of accidents, including crashes on an interstate that involved more than 50 vehicles....

#3 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...

#4 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...

#5 NC Court Says Mother Can Sue Trooper After Student Killed in Ride-Along

Jan 17 2025 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The mother of a North Carolina university student killed while on a ride-along in a Highway Patrol cruiser can continue suing for gross negligence the trooper who drove off the road during a...

#6 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...

#7 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...

#8 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...

#9 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...

#10 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...

#11 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,...

#12 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...

#13 North Carolina Settles on 15% Increase in HO Rates

Jan 21 2025 // RALEIGH. N.C. (AP) — Base rates for North Carolina homeowners’ insurance premiums will increase on average by about 15% by mid-2026 as part of a settlement reached by the state Insurance Department and the...

#14 North Carolina Officials Issue Urgent Plea for More Hurricane Recovery Funds

Feb 4 2025 // North Carolina officials charged with leading recovery efforts in western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene — as well as parts of eastern North Carolina still struggling from previous hurricanes — told state...

#15 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...

#16 North Carolina Lawmakers Amend Hurricane Helene Recovery Measure

Feb 14 2025 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina House members advanced Wednesday a Republican package to boost state recovery funding after Hurricane Helene as committees fleshed out details on how best to spend another $500 million...

#17 Busy Hurricane Season Could Test NC’s ‘Weakened’ Building Codes, Experts Say

Jun 3 2024 // The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, predicted to be unusually intense, officially began this week and it could soon bring the first test of a North Carolina law that some insurance experts have said weakens building codes...

#18 NC Can Switch Health Benefits Provider for State Workers, Judge Rules

Jul 10 2024 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — In a legal fight involving two health insurance companies seeking to manage North Carolina’s public employee benefits plan, a judge ruled Monday that the plan’s board acted properly when...

#19 Mailing a Letter, in Context With Other Clues, Is Sufficient Cancellation – NC High Court

Aug 26 2024 // Simply mailing a cancellation notice to a policyholder, when viewed in the context of other indicators, was enough to comply with state law and void a homeowner’s insurance policy just weeks before a fire destroyed a...

#20 North Carolina Appeals Court Won’t Budge on Intrepid Insurance Name Mix-up

Apr 3 2025 // What’s in a name? Enough confusion to sink a subrogation lawsuit and appeal brought by the insurer for a burned-up Hardee’s restaurant, the North Carolina Court of Appeals said Wednesday. “…The trial...