North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

[Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of stories looking at various ways that attorneys across the state are providing pro bono legal services.] When Dan Gibson got word at the end of August that he would be ...

Tagged with: Pro Bono

  The family of a Florida man who died after saving his daughter from a burning van that had been rear-ended by a tractor-trailer will receive nearly $2.7 million from underinsured motorist insurance and a settlement with the at-fault driver’s ...

Tagged with: motor vehicle crash

  The widower of a woman who died after a routine dental procedure has confidentially settled a lawsuit against the dentist who performed the procedure for $1.9 million, his attorneys report. Tom Comerford and Aindrea M. Pledger of Comerford, Chilson ...

Tagged with: Dental Malpractice

The widow of a man who was killed after he was hit by a city of Belmont employee who was hauling utility poles has settled a lawsuit against the city for $2.7 million, her attorneys report. Ben Chesson, David Allen, ...

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  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 ...

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  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 ...

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  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