North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

The family of a man who was killed in a head-on collision will receive a $1.3 million settlement, most of it from the drinking establishment which served alcohol to the driver that struck the victim’s vehicle, the family’s attorney reports.  Shawn Howard and KarlGwaltneyof Maginnis Howard in Raleigh and Andrew Cioffi of Raleigh represented ...

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  The estate of a pipefitter who was killed while working on the campus of North Carolina State University will be able to bring a wrongful death suit against six university employees in their individual capacities, a narrowly divided North ...

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  A Wake County jury has awarded $3.41 million to a 23-year-old woman for sexual abuse she endured for nearly a decade.  Ian Richardson of Vann Attorneys and Daniel Barker of Barker Richardson, both in Raleigh, report that their client, ...

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  A federal judge has dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit against Wake Forest University stemming from the 2018 shooting death of a Winston-Salem State University football player on WFU’s campus.  Court records show that Najee Ali Baker was killed near ...

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  A defendant who called his ex’s cellphone number without knowing that she was in North Carolina wasn’t subject to personal jurisdiction in the state’s court, a unanimous North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled, reversing two lower court rulings in ...

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The surviving spouse of a person who was killed in a motor vehicle collision and the decedent’s estate have settled their claims for $5.35 million, the plaintiffs’ attorney reports. Frank Pope of the Pope Law Firm in Jacksonville reports that ...

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  The 10-year period for enforcement of a foreign judgment accrues on the date that the judgment is filed in North Carolina, a unanimous panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled, affirming an order allowing a woman to pursue a claim of more than $1.3 million against ...

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Two new proposed ethics opinions would prohibit lawyers from participating in certain types of advertising offered by Google that record phone calls between lawyers and potential clients, and from taking possession of photographs portraying a minor engaged in sexual activity, ...

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While the cause of June’s Champlain Towers South condominiums collapse in Surfside, Florida is still under investigation, many experts believe that it could have been avoided had its homeowners’ association not ignored or downplayed repeated warnings that the building was ...

A class action against a mortgage servicer accused of using illegal tactics to collect payments has been settled for $7 million, the plaintiffs’ attorneys report. Ed Maginnis, Karl Gwaltney, and Asa Edwards of Maginnis Howard in Raleigh and Scott C. ...