North Carolina agencies pay millions with scant transparency

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — In June 2005, a 63-year-old woman was thrown from a tram at the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro. The vehicle tipped over onto her, seriously injuring her shoulder and requiring years of treatment. The state paid out $85,000 more than a decade later.

North Carolina officials agreed in 2015 to pay $100,000 to a Cumberland County family whose father's body had been left to rot, unrefrigerated, for two days in a hospital morgue after an exam.

In Wilmington that same year, the city spent $9,000 settling a claim after police yanked a woman from her bed half-naked and handcuffed her while serving a warrant at the wrong address.