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Latest News in North Carolina

  • May 26, 2026

    Tanger Says NC Justices Can't Review COVID Coverage Fight

    Tanger Outlets urged the North Carolina Supreme Court to toss its insurers' appeal of a decision allowing the retail outlet chain's suit seeking more than $50 million in pandemic-related coverage to proceed, saying the justices do not have jurisdiction to hear the dispute.

  • May 26, 2026

    NIL Contracts Test Limits On College Football Transfers

    College football's new legal era of direct payments to players and fewer transfer restrictions has put contractual provisions in play, and stipulations such as termination clauses and repayment obligations require added scrutiny as the name, image and likeness system evolves, says Kevin Paule at Hill Ward Henderson.

  • May 26, 2026

    NC Justices Revive Insurance Co.'s Noncompete Suit

    The Supreme Court of North Carolina has largely revived an insurance company's lawsuit against employees who left for a rival, directing a lower court to better clarify how an adverse inference regarding a "remarkable" spoilation of evidence should impact the renewed trade secret and breach of contract claims.

  • May 26, 2026

    'Regretful' Billionaire Gets 12 Years For $2B Fraud, Bribery

    Billionaire insurance magnate Greg Lindberg was sentenced Tuesday in a Charlotte federal courthouse to 12 years in federal prison in connection with two separate criminal cases for public corruption and financial fraud.

  • May 26, 2026

    High Court Won't Hear Union Carbide Emissions Row

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up Union Carbide Corp.'s appeal of a Fourth Circuit decision that revived a West Virginia woman's proposed class action over a manufacturing plant jointly owned with Covestro LLC that allegedly exposed nearby residents to ethylene oxide.

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