North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

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 ...

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  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 ...

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  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 ...

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The North Carolina Court of Appeals has vacated the sentence of a man who pleaded guilty to felony death by motor vehicle, finding that the trial court erroneously used elements of the crime to support the aggravating factors used in ...

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  Like the proverbial rose that grew from the crack in the concrete, the legal industry continues to demonstrate its resilience.  Not long ago, the profession had developed a reputation for being a barren job market saturated with attorneys, especially ...

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  A motorcyclist who was rear-ended in a hit-and-run wreck on Interstate 85 has agreed to a $1M settlement with a used car dealership after evidence strongly implicated a dealership employee who was never charged in connection with the crash, ...

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  The guardians of two children who suffered severe injuries as a result of an automobile accident have reached a partial settlement for $12.5 million, their attorneys report.  Fred DeVore and Bill Acton of DeVore, Acton & Stafford in Charlotte ...

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  A single law firm may simultaneously represent both a corporation and its individual directors who are alleged to have engaged in wrongful conduct against the corporation, a North Carolina Business Court judge has ruled in a matter of first ...

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The estate of a woman who was killed as she sat in her disabled car has settled its wrongful death suit for $3.25 million, the estate’s attorney reports. Mark Gray II of Gray Legal Group in Greensboro reports that the ...

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