North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A property management company and a homeowner have agreed to pay $234,000 to a man and a woman injured while riding a defective zip line on the rental property, the plaintiffs’ attorney reports. Winslow Taylor of Taylor & Taylor in ...

Tagged with: Negligence

A Wake County woman who was sexually assaulted during a massage at a large-chain establishment has settled her lawsuit for $1.5 million, her attorneys report. The woman was represented by Winston Kirby and Andrew Avram of Edwards Kirby in Raleigh, ...

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 ...

Tagged with: Wrongful Death

“Welcome back!”  Those are the words that many managing partners across South Carolina and elsewhere have been dying to utter since COVID-19 forced lawyers and professional staff to abandon their offices nearly two years ago. Recently, it had appeared as ...

Tagged with: COVID-19

Drivers who’ve been hurt in a car accident may now hit a roadblock to “stacking” the full value of their underinsured motorist policies on top of any recovery they receive from the at-fault driver, after the North Carolina Supreme Court ...

Tagged with: UIM

The North Carolina Supreme Court has ordered a new trial for a man who allegedly used social media to make drunken death threats against a district attorney, reversing state’s Court of Appeals order to acquit the man because the trial ...

Tagged with: threats

A 68-year-old woman who was severely injured when her vehicle was struck in middle of an intersection by a driver who’d allegedly failed to yield the right of way has settled her case for $250,000, her attorneys report. Doug Maynard of ...

Tagged with: motor vehicle crash

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 ...

Arbitration  Non-Party – Credit Card – Equitable Estoppel  In a case arising out of the installation of a water treatment system in plaintiff’s home, defendant Home Depot is not entitled to enforce the arbitration provisions in plaintiff’s credit card contract or ...

Tagged with: Most Important Opinions

Prosecutors may be able to move ahead with child abuse charges that were brought against a Henderson County man after his conviction for attempted murder was overturned on appeal because of a faulty indictment.  The North Carolina Supreme Court unanimously ...

Tagged with: murder