North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A motorist who was injured in a crash with a semi trailer has been awarded nearly $3 million in a settlement. On March 6, 2020, while traveling on Interstate 95 the plaintiff was rear-ended by a semi trailer. Following the ...

Tagged with: settlement

By Jason Thomas [email protected]  Every successful law firm has someone (or many folks) behind the scenes who turn the gears. It could be a paralegal, a legal assistant, or even an attorney — no matter their title, what they do ...

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By Jason Thomas [email protected]  On Nov. 4, Carolina Law alumni, students, faculty and staff are joined members of Sylvia X. Allen’s family as well as special guests for the unveiling of the portrait of Sylvia X. Allen, a 1962 graduate.   ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights

A collision that resulted in injuries to an employee of a waste management company has resulted in a $7.1 million settlement for the worker.  On June 16, 2020, an employee of a waste management company was standing on the driver ...

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Hedrick Gardner Kincheloe & Garofalo is pleased to announce that the legal team of Nichols, Choi, and Lee have joined the firm’s civil practice group.

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A worker who suffered a “stroke-like episode” while working on an air filtration system in a Cherryville plant has accepted a $2 million settlement for an array of injuries suffered on the job, his attorney reports.   Lauren Walker of Sumwalt ...

Tagged with: workers' compensation insurance

The repeated use of a racial epithet by the 6-year-old grandson of the owners of an assisted living facility was sufficient to support a former employee’s hostile work environment claim, a unanimous panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

Tagged with: racial discrimination

By Jason Boleman  A doctor who was physically present in North Carolina but examined a patient in Virginia through a telemedicine program had his motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction and for failure to state a claim rejected by ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice

Dozens of Wake County employees will be compensated with more than $378,000 as part of a settlement over wage and hour issues.   “It was quite complex to figure it all out but once we did, we filed suit and ...

Tagged with: Fair Labor Standards Act

By Heath Hamacher  Several plaintiffs have agreed to a total settlement of more than $4.4 million in cases involving the 2014 bridge collapse at a Raleigh college that injured four construction workers and killed another.  Multiple litigations were filed in ...

Tagged with: Wrongful Death