Latest North Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Coastal Homeowners Upset with Insurers, Regulators Over Surge in Insurance Costs
Jun 4 2013 // When Stan Virden moved into his 2,400-square-foot house overlooking a rock-lined canal in 1996, he paid less than $1,000 a year for homeowners insurance. Now, as he seeks to move to Atlanta to be near family, Virden says...
North Carolina’s Hagan Amends Senate Farm Bill to Address Crop Fraud
May 29 2013 // A measure championed by U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan adds $5 million in new funding to the 2013 farm bill to help root out crop insurance fraud. The Senate approved Hagan’s amendment last week by a vote of 94-0. The money...
North Carolina Town Files $10M Suit Over 2010 Dam Failure
May 29 2013 // The town of Hope Mills is suing to get $10 million to repair a dam that failed more than three years ago. It was the second dam to fail and empty the lake by the town. The first dam was breached in May 2003 when up to 8...
North Carolina Man Charged with Insurance Fraud
May 23 2013 // North Carolina authorities have accused a Lincoln County man of filing a fake report of a stolen motorcycle and trailer to get money from an insurance company. The Charlotte Observer reported that 38-year-old William...
North Carolina Underreports Workplace Deaths: Study
May 20 2013 // A study by workplace safety advocates shows that more workers die on the job in North Carolina than the state reports. The Charlotte Observer reported that the state Labor Department recorded 35 workers killed on the job...
North Carolina Bill Targets Drivers Who Pass School Buses
May 17 2013 // North Carolina lawmakers want to increase the consequences for drivers who fail to stop for school buses picking up or dropping off students. The bill approved unanimously by the House would require those convicted of the...
N.C. Commissioner Goodwin Seeking Apology Over Health Official’s Remark
May 14 2013 // North Carolina’s Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin is publicly calling for an apology from the state’s Department of Health and Human Services Secretary over a remark in which the health official allegedly...
North Carolina Underreports Workplace Deaths: Study
May 3 2013 // A study by workplace safety advocates shows that more workers die on the job in North Carolina than the state reports. The Charlotte Observer reported that the state Labor Department recorded 35 workers killed on the job...
North Carolina Getting $211M from Cigarette Lawsuit Settlement
Apr 29 2013 // North Carolina’s annual share of payments from top cigarette companies paying for smoking-related health care costs is $211 million. North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper notified Gov. Pat McCrory and...
North Carolina Senate Bill Aims to End Local Building Design Standards
Apr 25 2013 // Some North Carolina lawmakers are pushing legislation that forbids local governments from adopting their own building design standards in most cases. The Senate bill that passed the Commerce Committee on Tuesday says that...
North Carolina Senate OKs Insurance Laws That Could Mean Savings
Apr 23 2013 // A pair of automobile insurance bills doesn’t overhaul how premiums are set in North Carolina but could provide some cost savings for consumers. The North Carolina Senate approved the legislation by wide margins last...
North Carolina Auto Insurance Rating Bill Dies in Committee
Apr 18 2013 // Legislation to overhaul North Carolina’s automobile insurance system was rejected Tuesday by a House committee after Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin and other speakers argued it would raise premiums for...
North Carolina’s Auto Insurance System Badly Needs an Upgrade
Apr 16 2013 // It’s easy to understand why many North Carolinians are skeptical of proposals to change how the state regulates auto insurance. In a state where homeowners insurance rates are fairly high, and auto insurance...
Ratings Recap: National Lloyds, Tar Heel Re, World Insurance, Kentucky Growers
Apr 10 2013 // A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the issuer credit rating (ICR) to “a” from “a+” and affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A’ (Excellent) of National Lloyds Insurance Company as...
North Carolina’s Strickland Insurance Acquires Virginia Transportation Underwriter
Apr 8 2013 // Strickland Insurance Brokers of Goldsboro, North Carolina has acquired the assets of Palmyra, Virginia-based Tower Transportation Underwriters Inc. Tower Underwriters, owned by Fred Black, is a managing general agency in...
North Carolina Tax Reformers Seek Code in Keeping with New Economy
Apr 8 2013 // Republican legislative leaders and Gov. Pat McCrory brimmed with optimism early this year about prospects for passing a North Carolina tax code overhaul that most agree has been needed for decades. Still, they didn’t...
Taylor Joins Ownership Ranks at North Carolina’s Senn Dunn Insurance
Apr 3 2013 // Jennifer Taylor is a new partner owner of North Carolina’s Senn Dunn Insurance. With the addition of Taylor, Senn Dunn said it now has 22 owner partners as part of its perpetuation plan. Having owners partners is a...
North Carolina Bill Would End Motorcycle Helmet Mandate for Adults
Mar 28 2013 // Legislation that would end North Carolina’s mandatory helmet law and make it optional for riders age 21 and over won support from the majority in a divided state House panel this week. On a voice vote, the House...
North Carolina’s ‘Other’ Auto Insurance Market
Mar 27 2013 // I’ve already covered in these pages some of the things the editorial pages of North Carolina’s leading newspapers are getting wrong about S.B. 154, legislation to modernize the state’s system of setting...
North Carolina Wins MetLife Jobs
Mar 25 2013 // MetLife Inc. announced it will move 2,600 jobs from offices in four Northeast states and California to lower-cost locations in two North Carolina cities, while also getting tax breaks and other incentives that could reach...
