North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  An elderly woman who tripped and fell on a cracked sidewalk outside of a North Carolina restaurant has settled a pre-lawsuit claim against the restaurant for $200,000, her attorney reports.  Shannon Altamura of Garrett, Walker, Aycoth & Altamura in ...

Tagged with: Trip and Fall

  A plaintiff must present evidence of actual and reasonable reliance on a misrepresentation in order to make a successful claim for unfair and deceptive trade practices against an insurance agent, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has unanimously ruled. ...

Tagged with: Insurance

  The family of a man who died in a workplace accident during his first assignment working for a temp agency has confidentially settled a worker’s compensation claim and a negligence lawsuit against the company for whom he was working ...

Tagged with: Negligence

  A man who was rear-ended by a hit-and-run driver has confidentially settled a pre-lawsuit claim against the at-fault driver’s employer for $1 million after the company’s truck was discovered parked in front of the driver’s house through Google Earth, ...

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  Indigent defendants are not entitled to the appointment of counsel during a summary direct criminal contempt proceeding, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has unanimously ruled in a case of first impression. Billy Land appeared in Forsyth County Superior ...

Tagged with: Indigent Defense

  The Supreme Court of the U.S. Virgin Islands has ruled that a judgment entered in favor of a North Carolina man in Johnston County court was void and unconstitutional, the latest twist in a long-running legal dispute that has ...

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  The family of a man who was killed after the driver of a dump truck rear-ended his car has settled a lawsuit against the at-fault driver and his employer for $1 million, the family’s attorney reports. Matthew Sullivan of ...

Tagged with: motor vehicle crash

  The pass rate for North Carolina’s July 2020 bar exam, administered under a cloud of controversy created by COVID-19, increased by more than 10 percentage points over last year’s exam, to just over 83 percent, according to figures released ...

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  Thousands of North Carolinians who were convicted of offenses as teenagers will have those charges removed from their records in the coming weeks as district attorneys in eight counties filed motions to expunge them. District attorneys representing Rockingham, Caswell, ...

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The mother of a Wayne County jail inmate who died after he was allegedly refused psychiatric treatment, severely beaten and hogtied by detention officers, and tased by a state trooper has settled a federal lawsuit for $985,000, her attorney reports. ...

Tagged with: Wrongful Death