On Nov. 2, 2022, attorneys Kevin Stoops, Jason Thompson and Jesse Young secured a nearly $10 million settlement for 2,574 hourly managers across the nation employed by home improvement giant, Lowe’s Home Centers LLC. The managers alleged the company ...
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On Aug. 4, 2021, the defendant was driving a commercial dump truck on Moores Chapel Road in Mecklenburg County, N.C. According to plaintiff attorney Mark S. Jetton Jr., the defendants dump truck veered off the right side of the road and ...
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A motorcyclist who was rear-ended by a vehicle has been awarded an $800,000 settlement. The plaintiff was stopped behind a car on his Harley Davidson Sportster when he was rear-ended by the defendant. According to the plaintiff’s council, Thomas Kandler ...
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The family of a cyclist who was hit and killed by a pickup truck on his morning ride before work reached a settlement of $7.9 million. The pickup truck driver was driving on behalf of his company and the vehicle ...
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In 1976, Charles Ray Finch was convicted and charged with the death sentence for the murder of Shadow Holloman. Over 45 years later he has been vacated. According to the counsel for the estate of Finch, David Rudolf, Sonya Pfeiffer, ...
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An $8 million judgment was entered by the Superior Court of New Hanover County, N.C., for a patient who was sexually assaulted by her dentist while she was under anesthesia. The patient was having her wisdom teeth extracted at Wilmington ...
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In October 2022, a teen who was badly injured in a boating wreck two years prior, was awarded a $3,148,000 settlement for her physical and emotional trauma. One week before the plaintiff was scheduled to begin her freshman year of ...
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An autistic girl and her family were awarded $4.9 million after the girl was beaten by caregivers that resulted in serious injuries. In 2016 an autistic, non-verbal 15-year-old girl with developmental and intellectual disabilities, and explosive disorder, living in an ...
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The estate and surviving family of a motorist killed in an accident involving a semitrailer and recreational vehicle has been awarded a $1.3 million settlement. In August 2021, a North Carolina family was on vacation in Pennsylvania when an unlicensed ...
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A motorist who was injured in a crash with a semi trailer has been awarded nearly $3 million in a settlement. On March 6, 2020, while traveling on Interstate 95 the plaintiff was rear-ended by a semi trailer. Following the ...
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