North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  The family of a man who was killed in a wreck while he was riding a motorcycle has confidentially settled a claim against the at-fault driver for $1.8 million, the family’s attorney reports. David Sherlin of Holt Sherlin in ...

Tagged with: motor vehicle crash

  A man who suffered a traumatic brain injury and intestinal injuries after his vehicle was broadsided by a tractor-trailer driver who had run a red light has confidentially settled a claim against the at-fault driver and his employer for ...

Tagged with: motor vehicle crash

  A construction worker whose legs were crushed by a piece of equipment has confidentially settled a claim against a developer and a construction company for $1 million, his attorneys report. Ben Whitley of Raleigh and Noah Abrams of Raleigh ...

Tagged with: Workplace Negligence

  A truck driver who suffered severe injuries when a two-ton pipe landed on him has settled a claim against the crane company responsible for loading the pipe for $1.5 million, his attorneys report. Tom Comerford and John Chilson of ...

Tagged with: Negligence

When Paul Newby became North Carolina’s 30th Supreme Court chief justice on Jan. 1, he took office in an environment very different from any of his 29 predecessors. After taking part in the state’s first-ever virtual investiture, he takes the ...

Tagged with: NC Chief Justice Paul Newby

  Law firms and lawyers that collect information from DMV accident report forms, or purchase the information from third parties, don’t violate the federal Driver’s Privacy Protection Act, a U.S. district judge in North Carolina has ruled in a pair ...

Tagged with: DMV

An attorney who resigned as an equity partner from a North Carolina law firm can’t bring a Title VII lawsuit against the firm, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. In an apparent issue of first impression in ...

Tagged with: Title VII

  North Carolina’s constitution doesn’t require plaintiffs to demonstrate that they’ve suffered any actual injury in order to have standing to bring a lawsuit if the state statute at issue has expressly given them the standing to sue, the North ...

Tagged with: actual injury

Earlier this month, the director of the White House Coronavirus Task Force said that vaccinating everyone in America against COVID-19 is one of the greatest operational challenges the country has ever faced and “we will not stop working until the ...

Tagged with: coronavirus

  A woman who suffered a severe leg injury when a truck hit the car she was riding in has settled a pre-lawsuit claim with the insurance carrier of the at-fault driver’s employer for $250,000, her attorney reports. Gary Clemmons ...

Tagged with: motor vehicle crash