Latest North Carolina Headlines
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North Carolina Offering Altered Road Test for Teen Drivers to Receive Licenses
Feb 19 2021 // North Carolina’s Division of Motor Vehicles has started offering road tests to teen drivers again. The Raleigh News & Observer reports that the DMV had largely stopped the tests last March to prevent the spread...
EF3 Tornado Rips Across North Carolina Community, Levels Homes, Kills 3
Feb 18 2021 // It was late Monday night when the power went out at Jesse Clemmons’ home in coastal North Carolina. He went outside to start up the generator and heard a loud roar approaching from the woods. “By that time, I...
Hearing Set for Next Year Over 18.7% North Carolina Dwelling Rate Increase
Feb 3 2021 // A hearing date for the proposed 18.7% dwelling insurance rate increase has been set for Jan. 18, 2022 by North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey, a statement from the North Carolina Department of Insurance...
North Carolina Tops 1K Captive Insurers in 7 Years
Feb 2 2021 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance has approved or licensed more than 1,000 risk-bearing captive entities (including conditional licenses and approvals) since its captive program inception in 2013 through year-end...
Duke Energy, North Carolina Reach Deal on Coal Ash Removal Costs
Jan 28 2021 // Duke Energy, North Carolina officials and a conservation group announced Monday an agreement on how the utility pays to get rid of coal ash stored in the state. The proposed settlement would shift an estimated $1.1 billion...
Ex-Rep Hayes Pardoned by Trump for Role in North Carolina Insurance Bribery Scheme
Jan 26 2021 // A former North Carolina congressman and state Republican Party leader who lied to FBI agents about a bribery scandal received a pardon from outgoing President Donald Trump in his final hours in office. Federal authorities...
Causey Sworn in for Second Term as North Carolina Insurance Commissioner
Jan 19 2021 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey took the oath of office for his second term as North Carolina’s Insurance Commissioner last week. Mike Causey Causey was sworn in Jan. 9 by North Carolina Chief...
Despite Pandemic, North Carolina Traffic Deaths Climb to 1,500 in 2020
Jan 15 2021 // Traffic deaths in North Carolina last year surpassed 1,500 for the first time in 13 years despite a pandemic during which motorists logged fewer miles statewide, statistics show. N.C. Department of Transportation data...
North Carolina Retaining Wall Collapse Injures Construction Workers, Kills 1
Jan 15 2021 // One person was killed and at least four people were injured after a retaining wall fell on construction workers in a North Carolina city, officials said Wednesday. The City of Hendersonville said in a news release that the...
The Hilb Group Acquires Dwayne Wilson Insurance of North Carolina
Jan 14 2021 // The Hilb Group, LLC (THG) has acquired North Carolina-based Dwayne Wilson Insurance & Financial Services, Inc. (DWI). The transaction became effective on Dec. 31, 2020. DWI is a full-service life and health (L&H)...
Exceptional Risk Advisors Acquires International Specialty of North Carolina
Jan 13 2021 // Exceptional Risk Advisors, a Lloyd’s of London coverholder, has acquired assets of International Specialty Insurance Services. Headquartered in Winston-Salem, N.C., International Specialty Insurance designs insurance...
Ebner Retires from North Carolina-Based McGriff
Jan 13 2021 // McGriff’s Tommy Ebner, leader of the company’s oil and gas practice, and former president and CEO of McGriff, Seibels & Williams, Inc., will retire after 28 years. The retirement will take place during the...
North Carolina College Restores Women’s Sports After Lawsuit Threat
Jan 12 2021 // East Carolina University is restoring two of its women’s teams cut last spring for budget problems compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, and paying more than $189,000 to avoid a gender discrimination lawsuit. The...
BevCap Management Forms Onshore Captive Domiciled in North Carolina
Jan 8 2021 // BevCap Management, LLC (BevCap), an alternative risk program manager with captives domiciled both on and offshore, has formed HatterasRe, LTD, an onshore domiciled captive insurer for BevCap Health’s proprietary...
North Carolina CEO Sues Over ‘Faulty’ Windows, Doors in $16M Home
Jan 6 2021 // The CEO of a marketing and technology company has gone to court over what he says are faulty custom-made steel-and-glass windows and doors in his $16 million Charlotte home. Ric Elias, CEO and co-founder of Red Ventures,...
North Carolina Restaurant Owners, Workers Clash Over COVID Safety
Dec 28 2020 // Restaurant owners, who have seen their capacity and hours limited by government entities, are struggling to keep the doors open, while their staff, often in a very public-facing position, try to stay both employed and...
North Carolina Labor Chief Faces Backlash Over Response to New COVID Rules
Dec 17 2020 // North Carolina worker and civil rights advocates are unhappy with the outgoing state labor commissioner’s refusal to put more regulations upon employers they say will protect employees from COVID-19. Representatives...
North Carolina Insurers File for 18.7% Increase on Dwelling Policies
Dec 16 2020 // The North Carolina Rate Bureau, which represents all companies writing property insurance in the state, is seeking an 18.7% statewide average increase in dwelling policies. The North Carolina Department of Insurance said...
Black Firefighters in North Carolina Allege Racism Amid Larger Reckoning
Dec 1 2020 // They threw her new cellphone on the roof of the station house and placed nails under the wheels of her pickup truck. As she prepared to answer a call, someone poured tobacco juice in her boots. It was too much for Timika...
North Carolina Regulator to Modify Moratorium on Lindberg Firms
Dec 1 2020 // A North Carolina Superior Court gave approval to the state’s insurance regulator to modify the moratorium on insurance businessman Greg Lindberg’s financially impaired Colorado Bankers and Bankers Life...
