North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  A woman whose arteries were severed during a routine outpatient surgical procedure has settled with the healthcare provider for $3.3 million, her attorney reports. John Chilson of Comerford Chilson & Moser in Winston-Salem said that in 2018, the woman ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice

A non-custodial divorced parent’s obligation to pay child support doesn’t automatically terminate when a child leaves the custodial parent’s home to live on his own, a divided panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled in a case ...

Tagged with: Child Support

  The family of a child who suffered a brain injury after he was given a massive overdose of dextrose during an intravenous treatment has confidentially settled a lawsuit against the infusion’s provider for just over $13 million, the family’s ...

Tagged with: overdose

  The North Carolina Department of Transportation is paying the owners of a plant nursery $1.95 million for property to make room for the Southern Wake Expressway, their attorneys report. George Autry, Stephanie Autry and Jeremy Hopkins of Cranfill, Sumner ...

Tagged with: Eminent Domain

A father and daughter who were convicted of second-degree murder in the beating death of the daughter’s husband are entitled to a new trial because the trial court didn’t allow into evidence statements from the husband’s children about his violent ...

Tagged with: murder

  There’s no getting out of a long-running battle between a South Carolina attorney and the businessmen he likened to TV mobster Tony Soprano. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated a lawsuit filed by the attorney, Paul ...

Tagged with: Fraud

The surviving relatives of a family of four who were all killed after a tanker truck crashed into the back of their car has reached a $9.45 million confidential settlement with two trucker drivers involved in the crash and the ...

Tagged with: Motor Vehicle Accident

The City of Charlotte has opted to avoid the potential turbulence of a condemnation action and agreed to pay $8.35 million for eight acres of land earmarked for the expansion of Charlotte Douglas International Airport after having initially threatened to ...

Tagged with: Eminent Domain

Rockingham County will pay $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a father of two young children who was shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy in his driveway, according to court documents and the family’s ...

Tagged with: Sheriff

  Attorneys who feel stung by a one-star review are entitled to push back against any negative reviews they receive online, so long as their rebuttal is “proportional and restrained” and doesn’t disclose confidential client information, a newly proposed ethics ...

Tagged with: Ethics