North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

An Ashe County jury has ordered two doctors and two medical centers to pay $816,988 to a man who suffered permanent damage to his spinal cord after an urgently needed surgery was needlessly delayed by more than eight hours. Justin ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice

A Mitchell County man is entitled to a new hearing to determine whether his convictions for drug-selling should be set aside because the trial court relied on an eight-month-old psychiatric report to deem him fit to stand trial even though ...

A federal jury has ordered a High Point chemical distributor to pay a Chinese chemical manufacturer $75.4 million after the jury found that the distributor and its owners had breached its contract with the manufacturer and engaged in unfair and ...

A cement truck driver who was injured after his truck was hit by a driver who was driving while talking on a cell phone has received an $825,000 verdict from an arbitration panel, his attorney reports. Hunt Willis of Martin ...

The family of a mother, her son, and her daughter-in-law who were all killed after a driver illegally passed a bicyclist and hit their car head-on has reached a $3.5 million pre-suit settlement with the at-fault driver, the family’s attorney ...

  A woman who was seriously injured after her car was hit head-on by a school bus has been awarded $1 million in damages—the maximum recovery allowed under the state’s Tort Claims Act—by the North Carolina Industrial Commission, her attorneys ...

Tagged with: Motor Vehicle Accident

  A charge of conspiracy to commit attempted first-degree murder is not an illogical impossibility, as one Johnston County defendant had argued, because an intent to fail to commit the murder is not an essential element of the crime, a ...

Tagged with: murder

  A lawsuit is moving forward against two large healthcare organizations that allegedly terminated contracts after two Charlotte doctors refused to take part in a false billing scheme after a federal judge ruled that corporate entities have standing to bring ...

Tagged with: false claims act

For the first time since 2014, the North Carolina Judicial Council, made up of attorneys and other stakeholders in the state’s court system, has reconvened and is now charged with advising Chief Justice Cheri Beasley and the General Assembly on ...

Tagged with: judicial council

  A punishment handed down to a Macon County man who streamed court proceedings on Facebook will stand–including a requirement that he write an essay about respecting the court system, post it on social media, and delete any negative comments ...

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