North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A Brunswick County girl will receive a $700,000 settlement after a crash in the town of Winnabow that left her with significant injuries, the family’s attorney reports.  Bradley Coxe of Hodges Coxe & Potter in Wilmington reports that 10-year-old Soleda Sanchez Enriques was a ...

Tagged with: Motor Vehicle Wreck

A man who was struck by a mobile x-ray machine in a hospital hallway has obtained a $175,000 judgment from a Johnston County jury.  Ellis Boyle of Knott & Boyle said that his client, Al Gutierrez, was visiting his wife ...

Tagged with: personal injury

  A party to a quasi-judicial protest proceeding is entitled to absolute privilege in a libel suit being brought by a group of plaintiffs who were falsely accused of double voting in the 2016 election—but the lawyers, law firm and ...

Tagged with: election

  Math teachers find themselves incessantly reminding students that “this is why you need to show your work.” The North Carolina Court of Appeals recently found itself in much the same position in remanding a case so that the trial ...

Tagged with: N.C.Court of Appeals

A high school senior whose car was T-boned by a tractor trailer whose driver had failed to yield to him has reached a $750,000 settlement, his attorney reports.  Justin Hunter of Hunter & Price in Wallace reports that his client ...

Tagged with: motor vehicle crash

  Law firms need to keep a departing lawyer’s email account active and monitor and respond to incoming emails for a reasonable period of time, a newly proposed ethics opinion would rule.  Proposed 2021 Formal Ethics Opinion 6, “Departing Lawyer’s Email ...

Tagged with: Ethics

  A police department’s failure to follow its own policies in not giving an officer enough time to prepare for a disciplinary hearing that led to his termination was a violation of the North Carolina Constitution’s guarantee of a fundamental ...

Tagged with: police

A driver’s examiner who was injured by an applicant who had an accident while trying to obtain his driver’s license will take home more than $300,000 in a post-trial settlement, his attorneys report.  Davis Poisson III and Fred D. Poisson ...

Tagged with: Motor Vehicle Wreck

  The city of Raleigh will pay $2 million to 15 plaintiffs who claim that officers with the Raleigh Police Department used brown sugar and an unreliable confidential informant to frame them for drug trafficking.  Abraham Rubert-Schewel and Emily Gladden of ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights

The family of a college student who was killed in a collision with an armored box truck whose driver had fallen asleep at the wheel has agreed to a $5 million settlement, the family’s attorneys report.  Harry Albritton Jr. of ...

Tagged with: Wrongful Death