N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-1-2: Insurance secondary sources not authoritative.

A secondary source on insurance in any legal treatise, scholarly publication, textbook, or other explanatory text does not constitute the law or public policy of the State and is not authoritative if the secondary source purports to create, eliminate, expand, or restrict a cause of action, right, or remedy or if it conflicts with:

(1) The Constitution of the United States or the Constitution of North Carolina;

(2) The General Statutes;

(3) North Carolina case law precedent; or

(4) Other common law that may have been adopted by North Carolina courts. (2021-117, s. 8A.)