Selective Insurance Group, announced the following appointments in its N.C. offices: George Neale was named senior vice president, chief claims officer. Neale joined Selective in April 2013. Prior to that, he served as executive vice president, chief claims officer for …
A Mecklenburg, N.C., jury has awarded two families $6 million dollars after ruling against a Charlotte development company which didn’t install a traffic light at an intersection where a fatal accident occurred. The unanimous verdict reached Friday after four days …
An effort to overhaul North Carolina’s automobile insurance system has been thwarted in a House committee after Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin and other speakers warned passing the bill would raise premium rates for everyone. The House Insurance Committee refused Tuesday …
Officials say a warehouse fire in Gastonia, N.C., caused at least $4 million in damage. Firefighters were continuing to spray hot spots Sunday at the old National Textiles mill. No one was hurt in the fire. Assistant Fire Chief Billy …
An effort to raise the maximum possible speed limit on North Carolina roads to 75 miles per hour raced through the state Senate on Thursday. The chamber voted 45-1 to give the state Department of Transportation authority to set speed …
The family of a man killed in a Lincoln County, N.C., marina explosion has been awarded $1.5 million. Jurors took less than an hour to make that decision Wednesday in the case of Nate Coppick. The 19-year-old was killed in …
It was common knowledge around a rural North Carolina neighborhood that Jordan Arwood was digging a two-story-deep pit on his property. Some said it was for a bunker and warned their children to stay out of it. Now authorities are …
State troopers wrote more than 13,000 tickets for speeding during a week-long operation targeting motorists on North Carolina highways. The N.C. Highway Patrol ended its Operation Slow Down campaign on Easter. During the campaign, the patrol said its troopers issued …
New Hanover County has reached a settlement with the family of a pallbearer who was zapped with a stun gun as he helped load his father’s coffin into a hearse. The StarNews of Wilmington, N.C., reports the incident happened five …
Cleveland County sheriff’s deputies say a Rutherford County, N.C., man has died while trying to steal a catalytic converter from a wrecked car. Deputies say 28-year-old Daniel Yount died early Sunday morning. Deputies say Yount and 32-year-old Dawn Bradley had …