Latest North Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
NC Insurance Agent with Multiple Businesses Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion
Feb 22 2024 // A North Carolina insurance agent has pleaded guilty to tax evasion and could face up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday. Arturo Barcenas Gonzalez, is owner of Barcenas...
New Concerns About NC State University Building Found to Have PCBs
Feb 20 2024 // Concerns and controversy have continued to mount over the presence of toxic chemicals, including cancer-linked polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, found in a building at North Carolina State University. The Raleigh News...
Georgia, NC Women Face Insurance Fraud Charges After Auto Accident Claims
Feb 16 2024 // Georgia law enforcement authorities were searching for a Lawrenceville woman who allegedly submitted fabricated medical records in an auto insurance claim in an effort to collect $15,000, the state insurance commissioner...
NC Postal Worker Pleads Guilty to Comp Fraud After Photos Show Him Ziplining
Feb 8 2024 // A 73-year-old postal worker pleaded guilty this week to more than $100,000 in workers’ compensation fraud after social media postings showed him engaged in rigorous physical activity, including ziplining at Niagara...
North Carolina Commissioner Rejects Proposed 42% HO Rate Hike, Sets Hearing Date
Feb 7 2024 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey has rejected an average 42% hike in homeowners insurance rates proposed in January by the state’s rate bureau, setting the stage for a public hearing and...
North Carolina Lawmakers Say Changes Could Come for State’s High-Risk Driver Pool
Feb 5 2024 // North Carolina has a rather unique setup for auto insurance, allowing insurers to place high-risk drivers into the state Reinsurance Facility, a non-profit, state-created pool. That system came under new scrutiny last...
Affinity Hires Revenue Chief, NC DOI Elevates Counsel to Chief Operating Officer
Jan 8 2024 // Affinity Advisors, providers of a digital platform for securing specialty insurance, has named a former Aon and Marsh McLennan executive to be chief revenue officer. Suesserman Andrew Suesserman, who spent 12 years with...
North Carolina Rate Bureau Wants 42% Hike in Residential Property Insurance Rates
Jan 8 2024 // The North Carolina Rate Bureau, basing its calculations on input from 197 property insurance companies, has asked for a 42% average increase in homeowners insurance rates, to take effect Aug. 1. The rate bureau’s...
NC Appeals Court Says Injured Off-Duty Law Officers are Joint Employees
Dec 27 2023 // The question has arisen many times around the country: Is an injured, off-duty law officer, moonlighting on security or traffic control, considered an employee of the law enforcement division or a private company? The...
Southerners Rekindling ‘Fire Culture’ to Boost Longleaf Pine Range
Dec 20 2023 // WEST END, N.C. (AP) — Jesse Wimberley burns the woods with neighbors. Using new tools to revive an old communal tradition, they set fire to wiregrasses and forest debris with a drip torch, corralling embers with leaf...
Child Dies, Another Injured When Christmas Tree Catches Fire in NC Home
Dec 18 2023 // WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — One child was killed and another was injured when a Christmas tree caught fire in a North Carolina manufactured home Tuesday evening, according to fire officials. Firefighters called to a...
Warmer Winters Could Mean More Tornadoes in December, Like Those in NC, TN
Dec 14 2023 // Residents of Garner, North Carolina, have spent the week cleaning up after an F1 tornado damaged more than 20 homes and left four of them uninhabitable. The Raleigh News & Observer reported that warmer winters already...
North Carolina Insurance Agent Can’t Appeal Sentence in $700,000 Fraud
Dec 13 2023 // A former North Carolina insurance agent who pleaded guilty to defrauding trucking company clients and a premium finance company of hundreds of thousands of dollars cannot challenge her sentence and restitution order, a...
North Carolina Hog Farms Were Properly Permitted, State Appeals Court Says
Dec 7 2023 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Several hog farms in North Carolina were properly allowed to collect energy from the animals` waste, a state appeals court said Tuesday, ruling that their permit applications were scrutinized...
Alabama Supreme Court Orders Lindberg and Company to Pay $11M Note to Med Firm
Dec 5 2023 // The legal and financial troubles for former insurance executive and international businessman Greg Lindberg, now awaiting a second trial on charges that he tried to bribe a state insurance commissioner, has spread far...
New North Carolina Laws on Rioting, Power Station Attacks, Guns Take Effect
Dec 4 2023 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — New or tougher criminal penalties against rioting, vandalizing power stations and harassing law enforcement officers and emergency workers are among North Carolina laws approved this year that...
Former Allstate Agent in North Carolina Agrees to Abide by Non-Compete Agreement
Nov 28 2023 // A former Allstate insurance agent in North Carolina has agreed to stop selling competing products to her former clients and to return confidential client information to Allstate. A federal judge finalized an agreement...
Wildfires Prompt North Carolina, Tennessee Campgrounds to Evacuate; West Virginia Blaze Contained
Nov 22 2023 // Wildfires prompted campgrounds in North Carolina and Tennessee to evacuate starting Sunday while firefighters prepared for high winds and low humidity on Monday, though officials hoped for some help from expected rain. The...
Federal Court Splits North Carolina Hurricane Insurance Claims
Nov 14 2023 // A North Carolina investment firm and its property insurer have each won partial victories in a dispute over hurricane insurance claims that has been in court since 2019. A federal district court judge for Eastern North...
More Disruption in Who Appoints Boards in NC, as Court Blocks Legislative Changes
Nov 3 2023 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A panel of judges on Wednesday blocked changes for now that were made by North Carolina`s Republican-controlled legislature to three state boards, attempts opponents criticized as a partisan bid...
