North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  A woman whose face was severely disfigured after she suffered burns while undergoing a medical procedure has confidentially settled a claim against a North Carolina hospital for $2.2 million, her attorneys report. Bailey Melvin of Greenville and Micah Simonsen ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice

    For estate planning attorneys, 2020 was a year unlike any they have ever seen, from meeting clients in parking lots to comforting desperate family members whose elderly parents have succumbed to the virus and didn’t have plans for ...

Tagged with: Estate Planning

A Charlotte attorney will collect nothing from a former client who fired him and retained new attorneys who helped him negotiate a multimillion-dollar personal injury settlement, a Union County judge has ruled. The client in the underlying personal injury case was ...

Tagged with: personal injury

  A couple whose two-year-old daughter was shot at an unlicensed day care may pursue their negligent infliction of emotional distress (NIED) claim against the owners, the North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled, emphasizing the importance of conducting a case-by-case ...

Tagged with: NIED

A septic tank truck driver who was injured after he was rear-ended by the driver of a logging truck has confidentially settled a claim against the at-fault driver and his employer for $650,000, his attorneys report. Shawn Howard of Maginnis ...

Tagged with: motor vehicle crash

  Four former police officers in Bald Head Island have won a $707K bench verdict against the village’s former manager and former public safety director after they fired the officers and falsely claimed that they’d created a hostile work environment ...

Tagged with: Due Process Violations

  A North Carolina Court of Appeals judge has been censured after an investigation determined that Judge Hunter Murphy’s executive assistant created a “toxic work environment” for female law clerks who worked for him. In March 2018, the Judicial Standards ...

Tagged with: N.C.Court of Appeals

  A Buncombe County judge has been publicly reprimanded by the North Carolina Supreme Court for conducting a defendant’s probable-cause hearing without the defendant’s attorney present in order to “make a point” after the attorney was late for the hearing. ...

Tagged with: Judicial Standards Comission

A sheriff’s deputy who was injured after a driver crashed into his patrol car while the deputy was responding to a call has settled a claim with his personal underinsured motorist insurance carrier for $1.1 million after he was able ...

Tagged with: motor vehicle crash

  A $750,000 jury verdict awarded to an elderly couple who were robbed at gunpoint by their in-home health care aide has been tossed out after a divided North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that their ordinary negligence claim against ...

Tagged with: breaking and entering