Latest North Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
N.C. House to Halt Out-of-State Auto Insureds Seeking ‘Rate Evasion’
May 23 2007 // Out-of-state residents who obtain automobile insurance in North Carolina fraudulently to get cheaper premiums would be guilty of a felony in a bill that the House approved unanimously this week. The state Insurance...
N.C. Insurance Department Disagrees with Trial Lawyers on Rates
May 21 2007 // The North Carolina Insurance Department said it won’t further investigate the state’s largest medical malpractice insurer, saying it disagrees with a trial lawyers’ association report accusing the company...
N.C. trial lawyers hit medical malpractice rates
May 21 2007 // An association of trial lawyers has accused North Carolina’s largest medical malpractice insurer of violating state law by charging doctors excessive rates, but the company said its rates are reasonable. The North...
N.C. Gov. Urges Colleagues’ Support in Protecting State Authority over Guard
May 15 2007 // Gov. Mike Easley sent a letter to the nation’s governors urging them to get their states’ representatives in the U.S. House to support repeal of a law adopted last year that expands the power of the president...
Speeders Get Off Easy, Make N.C. Roads More Dangerous
May 15 2007 // Speed-related crashes kill about 10 people a week in North Carolina, more than are killed in accidents involving alcohol, according to the University of North Carolina’s Highway Safety Research Center. Yet lawmakers...
N.C. Trial Lawyers Accuse Malpractice Insurer of Illegal Rates
May 11 2007 // An association of trial lawyers has accused North Carolina’s largest medical malpractice insurer of violating state law by charging doctors excessive rates, but the company said its rates are reasonable. The North...
N.C. Insurance Pool for Chronically Ill Gets Initial House Approval
May 4 2007 // North Carolina would create a special health insurance pool for thousands of chronically ill people who are uninsured or can’t afford coverage in a bill tentatively approved by the House this week. The measure would...
Report: N.C. Kids Suffer from Unsafe Homes
May 4 2007 // Unsafe housing in North Carolina is leaving children with myriad injuries, including broken limbs from falling through rotten floors and asthma from breathing air contaminated by roach and ant droppings, according to a new...
N.C. chief blasts changes to rate-setting system
Apr 23 2007 // Consumers could see higher rates under legislation to eliminate the insurance commissioner’s rate approval authority that is before the North Carolina Senate, the state regulator is warning. “The insurance rate...
N.C. Commissioner on Rate-Setting System: ‘It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It’
Apr 13 2007 // Insurance consumers could see higher rates under legislation to eliminate the insurance commissioner’s authority to set rates that is before the North Carolina Senate, the state regulator is warning. “The...
N.C. Sexual Harassment Suit Marks New Territory for Title IX
Apr 12 2007 // Years after it was filed, a sexual harassment lawsuit against the University of North Carolina women’s soccer coach has regained momentum as a former player challenges how harassment and the culture of college...
Speeding Citations Drive Home Need for Auto Safety in N.C.
Apr 11 2007 // State and local law enforcement agencies wrote 17,512 speeding citations last week during the combined Operation Slow Down/No Need 2 Speed highway safety campaign. The N.C. Highway Patrol wrote 12,258 speeding tickets and...
Magazine: Drivers in Cheyenne, Wyo., 2 N.C. Cities among Worst
Apr 6 2007 // As far as Dick Lennox is concerned, things that go “bump” on the road are good for business. Still, even the owner of Lennox Body Shop would like to see a little less of it on local roads. An analysis in...
Canady Takes Desk at Burns & Wilcox in N.C.
Apr 3 2007 // Personal lines underwriter Jamie Canady has joined Burns & Wilcox at the broker’s Morehead City, N. C., office. Canady is experienced in high-value homeowners, personal umbrella, excess flood, vacant dwellings...
Counterfeit Auto Insurance Cards Among Documents Seized in N.C.
Apr 2 2007 // Hoke County, N.C. authorities raided three houses last week and arrested three illegal immigrants, also seizing phony documents and equipment used to make them. Among the items seized were dozens of phony drivers’...
N.C. Bill Would Strip Insurance Chief’s Rate-Setting Power
Apr 2 2007 // North Carolina lawmakers are considering taking away the state insurance commissioner’s power to set rates for some policies, as industry groups complain the office leans toward consumers in rate disputes. Under...
N.C. Amends Child Seat Belt Law
Mar 27 2007 // The General Assembly in Raleigh agreed last week to remove a 25-year-old exception to the state’s child safety seat law after federal regulators said it would keep them from giving North Carolina a $1 million...
TriSure’s Folger Named President-Elect of N.C. Agents Group
Mar 23 2007 // R. Cleve Folger, a founding partner at TriSure Corp., was named president elect of the Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina. Folger will assume his duties at the association’s annual convention in...
N.C. Panel Weakens Sprinkler Rule Against Advice of Fire Marshal
Mar 16 2007 // A state panel in North Carolina, acting against the pleas of the state fire marshal, has softened a rule on which buildings require sprinklers. The N.C. Building Code Council voted 8-4 earlier this week to relax the new...
Allied Brings Habitational Program to N.C.
Mar 15 2007 // Allied Insurance Brokers, a program administrator located in Marriottsville, Md., is now offering Farmers Insurance Group’s Habitational Program for apartment managers and owners as well as condominium associations...
