Latest North Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
North Carolina Man Charged With Threatening Insurance Agents Over Claim
Jul 18 2024 // First, a North Carolina man filed a claim with Farm Bureau Insurance. Then he threatened three insurance agents with violence when he wasn’t paid as much as he expected, according to state authorities and one of the...
Blue Cross Won’t Appeal: Aetna Set to Run NC State Worker Health Benefits
Jul 17 2024 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Aetna is poised to manage health coverage plan benefits for North Carolina state workers and teachers starting early next year because Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina said Monday it...
NTSB Investigating Crash of Small Plane That Killed Three in North Carolina
Jul 12 2024 // MARION, N.C. (AP) — Three people were killed when a small plane crashed in western North Carolina, officials said Monday. McDowell County Emergency Management said in a statement that emergency personnel responding to a...
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...
Cooper Signs Retention Groups, Vaping, Work Zone Safety Bills in North Carolina
Jul 5 2024 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper signed four bills Wednesday that include the creation of a new registry for vaping products and a slew of changes related to transportation laws and the state...
North Carolina, Florida Home Sellers Facing New Flood Disclosure Requirements
Jul 2 2024 // As of this week, home sellers in North Carolina must now disclose previous flood damage to properties. And come Oct. 1, Floridians must make similar disclosures, potentially boosting the demand for flood insurance. The...
Surgeons Can’t Slip Out of GEICO’s Latest RICO Fraud Lawsuit in NC, Judge Says
Jul 1 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 in June that two of those...
NC Lawmakers Ratify Bill That Trims Taxes on Captives, Risk-Retention Groups
Jun 28 2024 // North Carolina, already ranked among the top states for captive insurance firms, could soon become a little more attractive for captives and risk-retention groups if the governor signs Senate Bill 319. State lawmakers this...
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...
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...
Busy Hurricane Season Could Test North Carolina’s ‘Weakened’ Building Codes, Experts Say
Jun 17 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...
NC Bill to Make Manufacturers Pay for ‘Forever Chemicals’ Advances in House
Jun 13 2024 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s top environmental regulator could order manufacturers of “forever chemicals” to help pay for water system cleanup upgrades whenever they are found responsible for...
North Carolina Commissioner Lands on 8% Rate Increase for Dwelling Policies
Jun 10 2024 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey has settled on an 8% average rate increase for dwelling insurance policies, starting Nov. 1. The North Carolina Rate Bureau, basing its request on data from property...
After 11 Deaths, Lawsuit, Arrests at Jail, Travelers Drops NC Sheriff’s Liability Coverage
Jun 7 2024 // After multiple deaths in the jail, criminal charges against an employee and alleged sexual relationships with inmates, a North Carolina sheriff’s office has lost its law enforcement liability insurance coverage from...
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...
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...
A 6th House Has Collapsed into Atlantic on North Carolina’s Outer Banks
May 31 2024 // RODANTHE, N.C. (AP) — Another house has collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean along North Carolina’s coast, the sixth to fall along the Cape Hatteras National Seashore’s beaches in the past four years, according...
NC Commissioner Rejects Proposed 83% Mobile Home-Fire Rate Increase
May 30 2024 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey has scheduled a 2025 hearing date after rejecting the NC Rate Bureau’s request for an 83% average rate increase in mobile home fire policies and a 50% increase in...
North Carolina Will Soon Have Some of the Highest Auto Liability Minimums
May 29 2024 // Starting next year, the minimum automobile liability coverage in North Carolina will jump significantly, thanks to a 2023 law that raised the minimum requirement for the first time in 25 years. Since 1999, North Carolina...
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...
