The N.C. Supreme Court issued orders Monday allowing attorneys from both the ACLU and Institute for Justice to file briefs supporting Ace Speedway in its legal fight against the state’s top health official. State Health and Human Services Secretary Kody Kinsley is urging the high court to reverse the state Court of Appeals. A unanimous appellate panel ruled in August 2022 that speedway owners could pursue a lawsuit against Kinsley over a forced shutdown in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Tuesday, for the first time, a North Carolina House committee heard a bill (S.B. 3) to legalize marijuana use for certain medical reasons. The House Health Committee did not hold a vote on S.B. 3 but discussed the bill for about 30 minutes. Earlier this year, the bill passed the Senate by a vote...
Twenty-one state attorneys general have asked the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to accept a friend-of-the-court brief supporting N.C. State Treasurer Dale Folwell and the State Health Plan. Folwell and the health plan are defendants in a case involving transgender health care. Participating states include three of North Carolina’s four neighbors.
As the N.C. Senate prepares to override Gov Roy Cooper's veto of a bill placing restrictions on abortions after the first trimester, the stakes are high for N.C. Democrats. Planned Parenthood of North Carolina is a major donor to legislative Democrats and executive branch dems, spending nearly $10 million since 2016 on legislative and executive branch campaigns.
A group representing North Carolina’s county health directors is supporting the state’s top health official in a legal battle at the N.C. Supreme Court. The case pits Health and Human Services Secretary Kody Kinsley against owners of Alamance County-based Ace Speedway.
On Tuesday evening, legislators announced that veto-proof majorities in the House and Senate chambers had reached a compromise to ban elective abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy. A group of 10 female legislators—all of whom are Republicans—introduced the bill to the public.
H.B. 346, Reorganization & Economic Development Act, sailed through three House committees, including Health, Insurance, and Rules, this week before passing 86-26 in the House Thursday and now heads to the Senate.
A bipartisan House bill that would allow Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina to reorganize and create a holding company that could transfer billions of surplus policyholder money is on its way to the House Rules Committee after passing the House Insurance Committee Wednesday.
NC Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey says an NC House bill that would allow Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina to create a holding company in which it could move policyholder money is a bad idea, mainly because the company would be deregulated.
On Tuesday, the House Health Committee will consider several bills that critics say are likely to raise insurance costs for consumers. North Carolina ranks among the most expensive states in the country for healthcare. The Tar Heel state is one of eight in the United States where the average potential cost of healthcare surpasses $8,000 annually, according...
The U.S. attorney in Greensboro has signaled interest in a federal lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s treatment of foster children’s mental health. U.S. Attorney Sandra Hairston’s office filed a statement of interest in the case Friday. The statement arrived one month after N.C. Health and Human Services Secretary Kody Kinsley asked a federal judge to dismiss the suit.
