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KATHY A. WOOD and EVALYN GONZALES, Plaintiffs, v. NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY, Defendant No. COA00-1129 (Filed 4 December 2001) Immunity--sovereign--waiver--liability insurance--doctrine of quasi-estoppel--ministerial duty exception The trial court erred in a sexual harassment case, based on defendant university's failure to take disciplinary action against a professor, by granting plaintiff students' motion to strike defendant's defense of sovereign immunity and by denying defendant's motion for summary judgment, because: (1) the State does not waive sovereign immunity through the purchase of liability insurance in the same manner as the city or county level of government; (2) jurisdiction over tort claims against the State and its agencies remains exclusively with the Industrial Commission under N.C.G.S.

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