North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A husband and wife who contracted AIDS through a 1985 blood transfusion have reached a confidential settlement with the American Red Cross after its motion for summary judgment failed. The case, Doe v. American National Red Cross, filed in North ...

A community college student injured at the hospital where he was receiving on-the-job training is covered by workers’ compensation, the state Court of Appeals ruled Sept. 15. This is so even though he wasn’t paid for his work and was ...

In Ryles v. Durham County Hospital, the Appeals Court said a hospital trainee qualified as an employee for purposes of the Workers’ Compensation Act. The ruling follows a growing string of court decisions that have extended workers’ compensation coverage to ...

What sort of ‘extraordinary circumstances’ are required to set aside a consent judgment? Some clues are provided in a Sept. 15 ruling by the Court of Appeals, Thacker v. Thacker (North Carolina Lawyers Weekly No. NA01290 – 7 pages). At ...

A personal injury settlement that compensated a wife for her pain and suffering is separate property and is not subject to equitable distribution, the N.C. Court of Appeals ruled Sept. 15. This is so even though she deposited the funds ...

In the wake of sweeping statutory changes and a string of court rulings, where are the remaining battlegrounds in UM/UIM stacking? Lawyers Weekly posed that question to several experts in the field, who identified three likely areas of activity: Statutory ...

Bobby E. James, the State Bar’s long-time executive director, has resigned his position, effective last Wednesday. In a brief statement issued last week, James said he was tendering his resignation with ‘deep regret.’ He said personal reasons were behind his ...

The door to social host liability for alcohol-related accidents has been opened in a Sept. 4 opinion from the state Supreme Court. The case is Hart v. Ivey (North Carolina Lawyers Weekly No. NS01250 – 15 pages). Justice John Webb ...

Even as plaintiffs’ lawyers hailed a breakthrough in underinsured (UIM) stacking, the Supreme Court handed down a second opinion prohibiting uninsured (UM) stacking. The case is Lanning v. Allstate Insurance Co. (North Carolina Lawyers Weekly No. NS01262 – 13 pages). ...

In the wake of sweeping statutory changes and a string of court rulings, where are the remaining battlegrounds in UM/UIM stacking? Lawyers Weekly posed that question to several experts in the field, who identified three likely areas of activity: Statutory ...