Latest North Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
N.C. Workers’ Comp Provider Names Regional Director
Oct 15 2007 // North Carolina-based Key Risk, a provider of workers’ compensation insurance products and services for employers throughout the Eastern U.S., has named assistant vice president Glen R. “Chip” Marohn...
N.C. Drought Spreads to 55 Counties, Gov. Calls for Collaboration
Oct 9 2007 // Federal drought maps show that exceptional drought has spread from North Carolina’s eight westernmost counties to 55 counties in the mountains and Piedmont and now stretches from the foothills and Charlotte to parts...
First Guard Insurance Adds N.C. and N.J. to License List
Sep 28 2007 // Venice, Fla.-based First Guard Insurance Co., will begin writing business direct in North Carolina and New Jersey effective Jan. 1, 2008. Currently, FGIC is licensed in twenty-three states, primarily concentrated east of...
50 N.C. Businesses Affected, Gov. Declares Disaster Area
Sep 27 2007 // Gov. Mike Easley declared Spruce Pine, N.C. a state disaster area to help offset damages caused by a series of fires Aug. 4 and Aug. 5, making the town eligible for financial assistance. More than 50 businesses were...
Governor Says Feds Declare Disaster Area in N.C. Counties
Sep 17 2007 // Farmers across North Carolina are now eligible for low-interest emergency loans from the federal government to help them recover from sizable crop losses sustained in the state’s ongoing drought, Gov. Mike Easley...
Second N.C. Arrest Made in Alleged Disability Insurance Fraud Case
Sep 17 2007 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long announced the arrest of an Archdale man charged with one count of obtaining property by false pretense. Department investigators arrested Billy George Flynt, 47, on Sept. 13...
N.C. Bridge Sways, Gets Sufficiency Score of 2 Out of 100
Sep 13 2007 // The daily commute to a high school on Hatteras Island offered Dare County teacher Lisa Duke a gorgeous drive on a scenic highway with the ocean on one side and Pamlico Sound on the other. But the few hundred feet that lift...
Insurers Call on N.C. to Strengthen Coastal Building Code Requirements
Sep 11 2007 // In testimony today before the North Carolina Building Code Council, the American Insurance Association urged that stronger hurricane resistant construction standards be required for all areas of the coast vulnerable to...
N.C.: Gabrielle Leaves Wet but Undamaged Outer Banks for Open Sea
Sep 11 2007 // Tropical Storm Gabrielle struggled to stay organized as it moved back over the Atlantic Ocean early Monday, leaving in its wake wet but largely unimpressed vacationers and surfers on North Carolina’s Outer...
Gabrielle Aiming at North Carolina Coast
Sep 10 2007 // Tropical Storm Gabrielle began to shower North Carolina’s Outer Banks with rain and batter them with high winds Sunday as the storm slogged slowly toward the coast. Forecasters expected the storm to increase its wind...
N.C. gets funds for flood maps
Sep 3 2007 // North Carolina will receive a $4 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for a flood plain mapping project, according to Sen. Elizabeth Dole. “This funding will help protect North Carolinians and...
N.C. Man Enters Plea Agreement on Insurance Fraud Charge
Aug 31 2007 // West Virginia Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline, announced today that Nathan James Sigmon pleaded guilty last week to one felony count of conspiracy to commit insurance fraud. Sigmon, age 24 of Newton, N.C., was...
Wells Fargo Insurance Names Managing Director of N.C. Operations
Aug 30 2007 // Wells Fargo Insurance Services selected Steve Smith senior vice president, managing director of its North Carolina operations. Prior to joining Wells Fargo in 2006, Smith held leadership positions with CNA Financial, The...
Insurer’s Civil Suit Warning Halts Probe of N.C. Lacrosse Rape Case
Aug 29 2007 // A special committee probing the Durham, N.C. Police Department’s handing of the Duke lacrosse rape case has stopped its work because the city’s liability insurance provider warned that findings could provide...
Fire Damages 50 Businesses in N.C. Town; Disaster Declared
Aug 28 2007 // Federal officials declared Spruce Pine, N.C. a disaster area based on a request Gov. Mike Easley made shortly after a fire destroyed parts of downtown. The governor’s office said more than 50 businesses were affected...
N.C. Receives $4 Million for Flood Plain Mapping Project
Aug 21 2007 // North Carolina will receive a $4 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for a flood plain mapping project, Sen. Elizabeth Dole announced last week. “This funding will help protect North...
N.C. Mountain Planners Learn to Look Out for Landslide Dangers
Aug 10 2007 // Landslides like the one that killed residents of a western North Carolina community three years ago are a more common threat to mountain dwellers than they might seem, so the region’s planners are trying to learn how...
N.C. House approves public financing for insurance commissioner race and others
Aug 6 2007 // The North Carolina House narrowly approved the expansion of a voluntary public financing program for three more statewide elected offices, a move meant to reduce the influence of special interest money. Under the proposal,...
N.C. caps some medical malpractice damages
Aug 6 2007 // North Carolina lawmakers made a mild breakthrough recently on medical malpractice reform, agreeing to limit monetary damages in certain health care negligence cases. The bill would cap damages in negligence cases involving...
N.C. caps some medical malpractice damages
Aug 6 2007 // North Carolina lawmakers made a mild breakthrough recently on medical malpractice reform, agreeing to limit monetary damages in certain health care negligence cases. The bill would cap damages in negligence cases involving...
