Hog Farm’s Neighbors Awarded $50M After Suing Over Smells, Spraying
Families who live near a hog farm in Bladen County, N.C., have been complaining for decades about bad smells, flies and excessive chemical spraying.
April 27, 2018
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Litigation
North Carolina
Adjusters Assess Damage After Greensboro Tornado
While volunteers and crews work to clean up the storm damage, insurance adjusters are out assessing the loss and they have their hands full.
April 24, 2018
Auto
Property
North Carolina
More Than 1,000 Structures Damaged By Tornado In Guilford County, North Carolina
Guilford County crews now know that the EF2 tornado that struck Sunday afternoon left a nearly 1,000-foot-wide path of destruction on the city’s east side that stretched 16 miles.
April 19, 2018
Property
North Carolina
Hurricane Forecasters Shrinking ‘Cone Of Uncertainty’
The National Hurricane Center is making changes to its “cone of uncertainty” based on an improving forecast record. The cone is designed to show people where the center of a storm is likely to head.
April 19, 2018
Catastrophe
Property
Alabama
Delaware
District Of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
U.S. Recalls More Than 200M Eggs Over Salmonella Fears
Nearly 207 million eggs from a farm in North Carolina are being recalled from nine U.S. states after 22 people fell ill, the federal Food and Drug Administration has said.
April 16, 2018
Subrogation
Colorado
Florida
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
North Carolina Troopers Respond To 400 Collisions Since Snowfall
Monday’s snowfall is just a memory; however, its dangerous impact persisted until late Tuesday morning. Multiple wrecks were reported Tuesday as slippery driving conditions met morning commuters.
March 15, 2018
Auto
Liability
North Carolina
Pastor’s Fraud Claiming Crippling Disease Revealed By Facebook Photos
A North Carolina pastor who said she had a crippling disease is being sued by her insurer, which says it found church Facebook photos of her going down a slide and playing Skee-Ball.
March 13, 2018
Fraud
Life & Health
North Carolina
70 Cargo Containers Fall Off Ship In North Carolina
The Coast Guard is warning mariners about navigation hazards after 70 cargo containers fell off a ship near the coast of North Carolina Saturday night.
March 5, 2018
Excess & Surplus Lines
Marine
North Carolina
Sandbags And Warnings As Northeast U.S. Braces For Storm-Driven Flood
Businesses blocked doors with sandbags and officials warned residents of waterfront homes to be ready to evacuate as the northeastern United States braced for a powerful storm on Friday that threatened to flood coasts from Maine to North Carolina.
March 2, 2018
Property
Connecticut
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
North Carolina
Family Agrees To $12M Settlement Following Poisoning Death Of Son
The family of an 11-year old Rock Hill boy who died from carbon monoxide poisoning at a Best Western hotel in Boone in 2013 has agreed to settle wrongful death and injury suits against the hotel chain and other parties for $12 million, attorneys for the family said in a news release Monday.
January 23, 2018
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Litigation
North Carolina
Mecklenburg Government Paralyzed As Hacked Computer Files Are Held For Bitcoin Ransom
County manager Dena Diorio said Tuesday night that the hacker has essentially frozen the county’s electronic files. The hacker is seeking $23,000 for an encryption key that would release the files.
December 6, 2017
Technology
North Carolina
Dozens Of Apartments, Cars Damaged By Floodwaters In Boone, North Carolina
Flash flooding in Boone caused major damage to units in at least three different apartment complexes along Cedar Creek near Meadowview. The area is between the Boone Mall and the Walmart shopping areas. Dozens of cars at the units and at Walmart were inundated by the water.
October 26, 2017
Auto
Excess & Surplus Lines
North Carolina
Possible Tornadoes Flip Planes, Destroy Hangars At North Carolina Airport
Severe weather is threatening 30 million people across the Northeast. A powerful line of storms is expected to bring heavy rain, wind, and flooding. The system already has battered the Carolinas and parts of Virginia. Intense wind flipped planes and crumpled hangars at a small airport northwest of Charlotte.
October 25, 2017
Auto
Excess & Surplus Lines
Property
North Carolina
Severe Weather Leaves Damage In The Carolinas
The Carolinas have some cleaning up to do after being slammed by severe thunderstorms with damaging winds and flooding and possible tornadoes that flipped tractor-trailers and small planes, broke storefront windows and pushed one house off its foundation.
October 24, 2017
Auto
Excess & Surplus Lines
Property
North Carolina
South Carolina
Nearly 100 Homes Damaged By Severe Weather In Caldwell County, North Carolina
The damage in some neighborhoods of Caldwell County is devastating after strong storms -- and possibly a tornado -- blew through the area Sunday night.
October 11, 2017
Auto
Property
North Carolina
