The North Carolina Department of Transportation will pay $2.9 million to a landowner after its road-widening operation required it to take part of a three-acre tract of land in Caldwell County that had previously had an unobstructed view into the ...
Tagged with: Eminent Domain
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A motor vehicle collision that led to the death of an elderly man has resulted in a $2 million settlement, the estate’s attorney reports. Donald Strickland of Durham reports that the victim spent roughly three weeks in the hospital after ...
Tagged with: motor vehicle crash
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A property management company and a homeowner have agreed to pay $234,000 to a man and a woman injured while riding a defective zip line on the rental property, the plaintiffs’ attorney reports. Winslow Taylor of Taylor & Taylor in ...
Tagged with: Negligence
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A Wake County woman who was sexually assaulted during a massage at a large-chain establishment has settled her lawsuit for $1.5 million, her attorneys report. The woman was represented by Winston Kirby and Andrew Avram of Edwards Kirby in Raleigh, ...
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A Catawba County jury has returned a medical malpractice verdict in favor of the family of a woman who died after an outpatient gallbladder removal surgery, after which the two sides reached a confidential settlement over the amount of ...
Tagged with: Medical Malpractice
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A federal jury has ordered three Wake County sheriff’s deputies to pay an Apex man $8.32 million after he was stopped and then unlawfully shot while on his property. Robert Zaytoun and Matt Ballew of Zaytoun Ballew & Taylor in Raleigh ...
Tagged with: Police Misconduct
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A former manufacturing plant janitor who was severely burned after a machine exploded has confidentially settled a lawsuit against the plant’s owner for $9.2 million after successfully arguing that he was an employee of the temporary employment agency that gave ...
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A 35-year-old man who went blind in his right eye and suffered brain injuries after a ladder fell off a work van on Interstate 40 has won a $5 million jury verdict against the vehicle’s owner, his attorneys report. Robert ...
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A motorcyclist who was severely injured after he crashed into a Jeep that made a left turn in front of him has reached a settlement with the Jeep’s driver for $1.2 million, his attorney reports. Daniel Hansen of Shumaker, ...
Tagged with: Motorcycle Accident
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A teen who was permanently and totally disabled in a car wreck while working for his family’s business has settled a workers’ compensation claim for $3.85 million, his attorney reports. Matthew Sullivan of White and Allen in Kinston represented ...
Tagged with: Workers Compensation
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North Carolina Lawyers Weekly
