State Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey seeks to take part in a state Supreme Court dispute involving former top North Carolina political donor Greg Lindberg. Lindberg is scheduled to return to federal court in May on charges that he bribed Causey after the 2016 election.
Roughly one month before he’s scheduled to return to federal court on bribery and fraud charges, former top NC political donor Greg Lindberg faced a state Court of Appeals hearing Wednesday in a separate dispute. Lindberg is battling an insurance company’s effort to secure a $600 million judgment against him.
A federal judge has agreed to delay one trial for former N.C. political donor Greg Lindberg until after his retrial on separate bribery and fraud charges. Lindberg’s retrial is scheduled for November.
A former top N.C. political donor will likely face a federal retrial on bribery charges before he heads to court in a separate case dealing with his insurance businesses. Greg Lindberg is scheduled to go to trial in July in connection with a 13-count federal indictment. Charges include wire fraud, money-laundering conspiracy, and false entries about insurance business finances. But Lindberg’s lawyers filed a motion Friday to delay the trial until no earlier than February 2024.
A unanimous federal Appeals Court panel has upheld a lower court’s ruling favoring WakeMed in a dispute with car crash victims. Appellate judges ruled that the hospital did not deceive patients when asking them to sign certain forms in exchange for treatment.
N.C. House Speaker Thom Tillis, R-Mecklenburg, announces the formation of a new House task force targeting unemployment insurance fraud. Tillis, Reps. Marilyn Avila, R-Wake, and G.L. Pridgen, R-Robeson, and Laurinburg business owner Jerry Norton offer comments during the Feb. 28, 2012, news conference.
Eli Lehrer, vice president of the Heartland Institute, explains why North Carolina’s auto insurance system needs reform. Lehrer offered these comments during an interview for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 416).
N.C. House Majority Leader Paul Stam, R-Wake, and Rep. Tom Murry, R-Wake, discuss on May 12, 2011, the General Assembly’s decision to file a friend-of-the-court brief supporting 26 states suing to block the federal government from implementing the 2010 federal health care reform law.
Joseph Coletti, John Locke Foundation director of health and fiscal policy studies, explains how Medicaid’s structure leads to runaway government spending. Coletti’s comments are based on the new JLF report Reforming North Carolina’s Medicaid Program.
Eli Lehrer, vice president of Washington, D.C., operations for the Heartland Institute, explains reforms that would help improve North Carolina’s auto insurance system. These comments are linked to the report North Carolina’s Auto Insurance System: Still Unfair, Still in Need of Improvements.
Joseph Coletti, John Locke Foundation director of health and fiscal policy studies, explains how the 2010 federal health care law blocks North Carolina from making necessary reforms to its Medicaid program. Coletti offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 412).
