Latest North Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
The Hilb Group Acquires JWB Insurance in North Carolina
Aug 18 2015 // The Hilb Group LLC announced today that it acquired JWB Insurance Group, an independent agency in Wilmington, North Carolina. The transaction became effective Aug. 1, 2015. The terms of the deal were not...
Florida’s Heritage Approved to Write P/C Insurance in North Carolina
Aug 14 2015 // Heritage Insurance Holdings Inc., a property/casualty insurance holding company in Clearwater, Florida, announced that its subsidiary Heritage Property & Casualty Company (Heritage P&C) was approved to write...
Blue Cross Seeks 34% Rate Hike in North Carolina for ACA Plans
Aug 13 2015 // North Carolina’s largest health insurer says higher-than-anticipated costs after two years of selling federally subsidized coverage has forced it to seek premium increases even greater than it thought would be...
GlaxoSmithKline Shuts Down N.C. Factory Due to Legionnaires’ Bacteria
Aug 12 2015 // Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline closed its North Carolina factory on Tuesday after testing at a cooling tower found bacteria that causes deadly Legionnaire’s disease, a company spokeswoman said. The Legionella bacteria was...
Hub International Acquires Triangle Insurance in North Carolina
Aug 10 2015 // Insurance brokerage Hub International Limited announced that it has acquired the assets of Triangle Insurance Services Inc., an independent insurance agency based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Terms of the acquisition were...
8,000 Customers Affected by Water Main Break in North Carolina City
Aug 5 2015 // Officials in the City of Lexington, N.C., have declared a state of emergency after a break occurred in a 16-inch water main. The Dispatch of Lexington reports restaurants and other businesses closed on Monday. City offices...
Firefighters Work to Contain North Carolina Forest Fire Threatening Homes
Aug 4 2015 // Firefighters are working to contain a wildfire burning in the Pisgah National Forest in McDowell County, North Carolina. The U.S. Forest Service said Sunday anyone traveling along Interstate 40 and U.S. Highway 70 can...
Ridesharing Rules Make it Through North Carolina Senate
Jul 27 2015 // A deal brokered between North Carolina lawmakers and ridesharing services such as Uber and Lyft to place regulations on the app-based companies has passed the Senate and will go to the House. The Senate passed a bill July...
North Carolina Lawmakers Approve School District Lawsuit Moratorium
Jul 24 2015 // School districts in North Carolina may soon be barred for five years from suing their counties over the amount of funding they receive under a new provision approved by the state Senate. The Senate passed on July 22 a bill...
Environmental Groups Ask North Carolina Judge to Dismiss Part of Duke Energy Suit
Jul 24 2015 // A coalition of environmental groups is supporting Duke Energy’s effort to dismiss part of long-running lawsuit over pollution leaking from the company’s coal ash dumps. The Southern Environmental Law Center...
North Carolina Settles Inmate Death Lawsuit for $2.5M
Jul 23 2015 // The North Carolina Department of Public Safety says its Division of Adult Correction has reached a $2.5 million settlement with the estate of a man with mental illness who died of thirst after being held in solitary...
North Carolina Man Accused of Causing Over 12 Accidents for Insurance Money
Jul 20 2015 // Police in Asheville, N.C., say a man involved in more than a dozen wrecks in three years is accused of deliberately causing the accidents and trying to collect insurance later. The Asheville Citizen-Times reports that...
North Carolina Man Charged with 8 Counts of Insurance Fraud
Jul 20 2015 // A Raleigh, N.C., man has been charged with eight counts of insurance fraud, eight counts of obtaining property by false pretense, four counts of attempting to obtain property by false pretense and four counts of providing...
North Carolina Looks to Regulate Zip Lines, Carnival Rides
Jul 17 2015 // North Carolina lawmakers want the state Department of Labor to study zip line safety following a fatal accident at a YMCA camp in the mountains last month. The bill was amended recently after a 12-year-old girl died when...
North Carolina Deck Collapse Caused by Deteriorating Nails
Jul 10 2015 // Nails deteriorated by years of exposure to the sand, salt and moisture from the ocean gave way, causing a deck collapse that hurt 24 people as they posed for a picture at a North Carolina beachfront home, authorities...
North Carolina Man Charged with 8 Counts of Insurance Fraud
Jul 8 2015 // A Raleigh, N.C., man has been charged with eight counts of insurance fraud, eight counts obtaining property by false pretense, four counts of attempting to obtain property by false pretense and four counts of providing a...
Cause of North Carolina Deck Collapse that Injured 23 Under Investigation
Jul 7 2015 // Investigators are trying to determine what caused a deck to collapse as a family was taking a group photo at their rented beach house in North Carolina. The collapse July 4 sent 23 people to the hospital, authorities said....
North Carolina Salmonella Outbreak Kills 1, Sickens Nearly 250
Jul 7 2015 // State health officials say one person has died in connection with a salmonella outbreak at a North Carolina barbecue restaurant. The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services announced the death on its website, but...
North Carolina Approves Amendments to Captive Insurance Law
Jul 6 2015 // Amendments proposed to the North Carolina Captive Insurance Act by the North Carolina Department of Insurance (NCDOI) were met with unanimous support from the N.C. General Assembly and signed into law on June 19, 2015,...
Ex-Senate Candidate Grant to Run for North Carolina Insurance Commissioner
Jul 6 2015 // Unsuccessful 2014 U.S. Senate candidate Heather Grant says she’ll run for North Carolina insurance commissioner in 2016. Grant of Wilkes County said in June she will seek the Republican Party’s nomination for...
