North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  A truck driver who developed severe breathing problems after she was exposed to nitric acid vapors that leaked out of a barrel she was hauling has confidentially settled a lawsuit against the company that packaged the chemical for $2 ...

Tagged with: product liability

  A teenager who suffered brain damage after he almost drowned in a town-owned swimming pool has settled a lawsuit against the town for $1 million, his attorneys report. The attorneys, Lee Olive and Whitney Brooks of Charlotte, reported that ...

Tagged with: Negligence

For many of the nearly 5 million American companies that have received low-interest loans through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), an initiative approved by Congress as part of its first coronavirus relief package in March, the financing they obtained has ...

Tagged with: Loans

  A commission is tentatively recommending that the North Carolina Supreme Court remove a large portrait of former chief justice Thomas Ruffin Sr., whose racist history has tarnished his legacy as one of the state’s most esteemed justices, from its ...

  A family court judge shouldn’t have accounted for the fact that a plaintiff was about to lose her job before deciding whether she had the means to pay for her own attorneys’ fees in a child custody case, a ...

Tagged with: attorney's fees

  For tenants struggling to pay their rent in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the bad news continues to pile up.  A statewide moratorium on eviction hearings that had been in place since shutdowns began in March expired in ...

Tagged with: eviction

  One court-appointed attorney withdrawing from a defendant’s case is happenstance, and two, as the saying goes, might be coincidence. A third attorney’s withdrawal clearly suggests some difficulties, but in the case of a New Hanover County man convicted of ...

Tagged with: Forfeiture of Counsel

  With restrictions on business openings extended into August, business owners are faced with mounting bills and an uncertain future. Many were somewhat reassured at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic because they thought their business interruption insurance claims would ...

Tagged with: coronavirus Insurance

  As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in March, law firms across North Carolina faced a quandary: what to do about their summer associate programs? A hallmark of the law school experience, summer associate programs give students invaluable front-line experience ...

Tagged with: internships

  A trial court correctly denied a police officer’s attempt to rely upon the defense of public official immunity where a 60-year-old man alleged he was “body slammed” by a plainclothes officer in his own driveway, a divided North Carolina ...

Tagged with: police