A federal jury has awarded $10.65 million to a North Carolina engineering company after finding that another company took its plans for a new product and used them to secure patents by wrongly portraying the technology as its own invention. ...
Tagged with: Intellectual Property
Read More »A Raleigh restaurant owner has filed a class action lawsuit against an insurance carrier that has repeatedly denied interruption coverage to businesses that were shuttered because of COVID-19. Ashley Christensen filed the lawsuit against Cincinnati Insurance Co. in the U.S. ...
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The trouble between the 82-year-old husband and his 78-year-old wife had been brewing for a long time, but it finally hit its boiling point over a cup of coffee. The husband wanted a cup of coffee before they headed ...
Tagged with: gray divorce
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation had proper notice that a ditch needed to be cleared before water run-off created the black ice that caused a wreck, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled. Barbara Sigler was driving ...
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A man who was injured when he was hit nearly head-on while plowing snow has settled a pre-lawsuit claim with two insurance carriers for $1 million, his attorneys report. Bob Lucas and Sarah Ellerbe of Lucas, Denning and & ...
Tagged with: Motor Vehicle Wreck
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A perfect storm of calamities has put a standstill to many North Carolina Department of Transportation projects, and that’s keeping people whose properties lay in the path of current and planned road and highway construction in limbo, eminent domain ...
Tagged with: Map Act
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A man who was severely injured after a truck pulled out in front of him while he was on his motor scooter has settled a claim with the at-fault driver’s insurance carrier for $300,000, his attorneys report. Gary Clemmons and ...
Tagged with: motor vehicle crash
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The widow of a man who died after undergoing a heart procedure has confidentially settled a lawsuit with the treating cardiologist for $950,000, her attorneys report. John Kenneth Moser and Aindrea Pledger of Comerford Chilson & Moser in Winston-Salem ...
Tagged with: Medical Malpractice
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A truck driver who now suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder after he crashed into a tractor-trailer that had rolled backwards and blocked both lanes of traffic on a highway has settled a claim for just over $902,000, his attorneys ...
Tagged with: motor vehicle crash
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A woman who was raped while she was sleeping in her bed near a North Carolina college campus has been awarded a default judgment of $35 million in damages, her attorneys report. The order is largely symbolic as the ...
Tagged with: battery
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North Carolina Lawyers Weekly
