Attorney Erik Syverson works hard at his job, but he is the first to admit that the research model for his Internet law and civil litigation practice doesn’t fit the shopworn image one might have for lawyerly investigation. In fact, ...
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Four lawsuits over the city of Charlotte’s taking of adjacent properties near the city’s center have been consolidated into one $1.07 million settlement, the landowner’s attorney reports. Thomas “Tommy” Odom Jr. of The Odom Firm in Charlotte reports that the ...
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An eminent domain lawsuit over a Wilmington property that houses a CVS drugstore has reached a $3.2 million settlement, the landowner’s attorneys report. George Autry Jr., Stephanie Autry, and Jeremy Hopkins of Cranfill Sumner in Raleigh report that the ...
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation will pay $2.9 million to a landowner after its road-widening operation required it to take part of a three-acre tract of land in Caldwell County that had previously had an unobstructed view into the ...
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An insurer will pay nearly $1 million to an estate after a fatal crash in which a tractor trailer overturned onto another vehicle, according to the lawyer in the case, the estate’s attorneys report. Mark Melrose and Adam Melrose of ...
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A motor vehicle collision that led to the death of an elderly man has resulted in a $2 million settlement, the estate’s attorney reports. Donald Strickland of Durham reports that the victim spent roughly three weeks in the hospital after ...
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Doris White didn’t live to see the conclusion of her lawsuit against the North Carolina Department of Transportation, but her attorney, Matthew Bryant of Hendrick Bryant Nerhood Sanders & Otis in Winston-Salem, said the $2.8 million settlement in her case ...
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A case involving a deadly explosion prompted by a gas leak at a North Carolina home has been settled for $5.5 million, the plaintiffs’ attorneys report. John Jensen of Jensen Law Group on Chapel Hill and Lee Falls of Falls ...
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A kindergartener who was struck by a vehicle after disembarking from her bus will collect $900,000 from the local school district and the driver of the car that hit her, the attorneys for the girl’s family report. Sam McGee of ...
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The family of a man who died after he fell while at a North Carolina nursing home has settled a lawsuit against the nursing home for $4 million, the family’s attorneys report. Rachel A. Fuerst, Carma Henson and Thomas Henson ...
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