North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

The estate of a woman who set a police car on fire while she was inside it and later hanged herself to death in custody will receive $725,000 under the terms of a settlement with the sheriff’s office. Tom Ramer ...

Tagged with: Wrongful Death

The Cumberland County Board of Education has paid a $1.55 million settlement to a woman who was injured when a work truck owned by the school district jack-knifed across the road, causing the woman to broadside the attached trailer. Shawn ...

Tagged with: motor vehicle crash

The estate of a person who was killed when their vehicle was rear-ended has settled its wrongful death suit for $6.5 million, the estate’s attorney reports. Earl Taylor of Taylor Law Office in Wilson, who represented the estates, said that ...

Tagged with: motor vehicle crash

  Ask any mediator and they’ll tell you that being the third wheel in a party of (at least) two is not always easy. It’s their job to get the party started and keep the party going, even when the ...

Tagged with: Mediation

Excess insurers may enforce insurance policy provisions prohibiting or restricting post-loss assignments with the clauses construed based on the actual language in the insurance policy, a North Carolina Business Court judge has ruled, resulting in a split decision for the ...

Tagged with: Insurance

  Prosecutors must prove that there was a “distinct interruption” between the events that led to each criminal charge before they can charge a defendant with multiple assaults, the North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled in a case of first ...

Tagged with: distinct interruption

A federal jury has awarded $10 million in punitive damages to a white male executive who claims he was fired by a North Carolina-based health provider due to his race and his gender. David Duvall sued Novant Health, Inc. in ...

Tagged with: employment

  A law firm may be entitled to compensation for work performed while seeking to recover fees originally incurred for legal services rendered to a receiver, the North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled in a case of first impression.  Shelly ...

Tagged with: legal fees

  A construction worker who was permanently injured after falling 15 feet from an unprotected stairwell onto a concrete floor has settled his workers’ compensation claim for $2,006,000, his attorneys report.  David Gantt of Gantt Law Office in Asheville and ...

Tagged with: workers' compensation insurance

An innocent passenger who was shot by police after a vehicle chase involving a stolen U-Haul truck has settled a lawsuit against the Clay County Sheriff’s Office and its officers for $250,000, the plaintiff’s attorneys report.  Stephen Agan and George ...

Tagged with: police