North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A motorcyclist who sustained severe orthopedic injuries after he crashed into a tow truck that pulled in front of him has settled a lawsuit for $1 million, his attorneys report. The man was traveling south on SR 11-1101 in December ...

A woman who was “violently T-boned” by a commercial truck that ran a flashing red light has settled a lawsuit against the truck driver and his employer for $900,000, her attorneys report.  Hunt Willis and Forest Horne of Martin & ...

A Rowan County jury took a $2.29 million bite out of an oral surgeon’s wallet after finding that he splintered the marriage between his surgical assistant and her husband. In a verdict handed down on June 25, the jury ordered ...

BY CRAIG TURNER Special to Lawyers Weekly On June 11, the North Carolina Supreme Court issued an order amending the Rules of the N.C. Business Court pursuant to its supplemental rule-making authority. The Business Court Rules govern all civil actions ...

Unfair trade practices claims brought by licensed chiropractors against an intermediary that created a network of chiropractors with various insurance companies and third-party administrators are barred by the learned profession exemption found in North Carolina’s Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices ...

Tagged with: Chiropractors

A North Carolina police officer lacked sufficient cause when he pulled over a woman later convicted of driving while impaired, the state’s Court of Appeals has ruled. In January 2017, Perry Thompson of the Rowland Police Department stopped the woman, Tonya Cabbagestalk, according ...

Tagged with: dwi

A pair of Cabarrus County sheriff’s detectives who spotted a pot plant in a crawlspace while roaming through a man’s yard should have left the premises when he didn’t answer their knocks on his door, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ...

Tagged with: illegal search and seizure

A motorcyclist who lost his right leg after a crash with a car threw him 125 feet has settled a lawsuit against the car’s driver for $975,000, his attorneys report. In August 2017, the motorcyclist was hit after the car ...

Tagged with: Motorcycle Accident

  A man who suffered life-threatening injuries after a woman on a cell phone ran a stop sign and crashed into his vehicle has settled a lawsuit against her estate for $1.75 million, the man’s attorneys report. In April 2017, ...

Tagged with: motor vehicle

By Peter Vieth A woman’s failure to read the label on a bottle of pills was not contributory negligence as a matter of law, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals court said in the case of a pharmacy that ...

Tagged with: pills