North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  The thing that really jumps out at you about North Carolina Lawyers Weekly’s list of the Top Verdicts & Settlements of 2020 is how utterly ordinary it is. There are slightly fewer verdicts than is typical, but nothing about ...

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A judge correctly read an ambiguous contract to find that a juice maker had been squeezed by one of its buyers for millions of dollars in rebates that the buyer wasn’t entitled to, the 4th U.S. Court of Appeals has ...

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  The mother of a woman who died after she was rear-ended by a pickup truck driver in a construction zone has settled a claim against the at-fault driver’s employer for $2.5 million, her attorneys report. Sam Coleman, James Rainsford, ...

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  A development company has settled a claim against the North Carolina Department of Transportation for $3.1 million after the DOT cut off highway access to the company’s land in order to build an overpass along a major highway in ...

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  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 ...

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  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 ...

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  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 ...

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  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 ...

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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 ...

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  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 ...

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