Winston-Salem-based banking company BB&T has agreed to settle an Employee Retirement Income Security Act claim brought by its employees for $24 million, an attorney for the plaintiffs reports. Jerry Schlichter of Schlichter Bogard & Denton in St. Louis, Missouri, ...
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Read More »A Brunswick County jury has awarded $2.6 million to a pair of landowners whose property was taken by the North Carolina Department of Transportation for the construction of Interstate 140. The award is almost 20 times the amount that ...
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Read More »A Harnett County jury has awarded $250,000 to the parents of a man who was fatally shot by his father-in-law in a high profile 2013 incident. The Rev. Pat Chisenhall of Angier shot and killed his son-in-law, Christian Griggs, ...
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Read More »A woman whose new knee replacement was ruined when she tripped over a wire in front of a Charlotte office building has settled with an insurance company for $435,000, her attorney reports. Mark Jetton of Jetton & Meredith in Charlotte ...
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Read More »A Henderson County jury has awarded $3.5 million to a Salvation Army truck driver who was broadsided by a dump truck that ran a red light. The wreck happened on Nov. 9, 2015, said Richard Watson of Durham, who ...
Tagged with: Automobile Accident
Read More »The restaurant chain Hardee’s has settled a class-action lawsuit stemming from an incident in which an employee who prepared food at a Charlotte location had Hepatitis A—leading to about 3,000 customers needing vaccinations—for $246,000, the plaintiffs’ attorneys report. Earlier ...
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Read More »A 58-year-old passenger in a Charlotte taxi cab who was severely injured after her driver swerved to avoid another taxi has settled a lawsuit against the second cab driver and his company for $500,000, her attorney reports. Hunter Gillespie of ...
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Read More »A woman who was slammed from behind by an 18-wheeler in Winston-Salem has confidentially settled a lawsuit against a trucking company for $1,000,000, her attorneys report. Tom Comerford of Comerford Britt in Winston-Salem reports that his client, a 21-year-old ...
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Read More »The widower of a North Carolina woman who died after heart surgery has confidentially settled a wrongful death lawsuit for $1.4 million, her attorney reported. John Kenneth Moser of Comerford & Britt in Winston-Salem reported that the woman, whose ...
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Read More »The family of a doctor who died after cattle-herding dogs attacked him while he was on a walk have settled a lawsuit for $900,000, the family’s attorneys said. John Kenneth Moser and Aindrea Pledger of Comerford & Britt in Winston-Salem ...
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North Carolina Lawyers Weekly
