North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  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

The widow of 65-year-old man who died in a wreck with a pizza delivery driver has settled a lawsuit for $1.3 million, her attorney reports. Matt Yelverton of Yelverton Litigators in Charleston, South Carolina reports that the victim, Raymond Russell ...

  The family of a 17-year-old girl who committed suicide while being held at the Durham County Detention Center has settled a lawsuit for $650,000 and the promise of sweeping changes designed to prevent similar deaths from occurring in the ...

  The wife of a carpenter who was killed when a roof truss system collapsed on him has confidentially settled a wrongful death lawsuit for $1.05 million, her attorney reports. Jay Kerr of Asheville said that the carpenter, whose name ...

Tagged with: Wrongful Death

  Despite being out of pocket for $75,000, an 88-year-old disabled veteran was able to hold on to his valuable Morrisville property after he had agreed to sell it to a direct home buyer, his attorney reports. Paul Stam of ...

Tagged with: Real Property

  A North Carolina mother whose newborn daughter suffered severe respiratory failure and cardiac arrest after a licensed practical nurse failed to replace her breathing tube has confidentially settled a lawsuit against an unnamed medical center for $15 million, her ...

The city of Charlotte has paid $950,000 to the family of a college student who was killed after he was hit in a crosswalk by a police cruiser estimated to be going up to 100 mph, the family’s attorney reports. ...

Tagged with: police

  The wife and children of a North Carolina man killed after a commercial truck hit his car on a country road has confidentially settled a wrongful death lawsuit for $3 million, the family’s attorneys reported. The man was driving ...

Tagged with: Automobile Accident

  Two real estate developers have reached a $150,000 settlement with a village in Forsyth County after alleging that the village’s council unlawfully blocked a proposed development because it would have included the construction of affordable housing, their attorney reports. ...

Tagged with: Fair Housing Act

  A landowner in Charlotte has reached a $2.825 million settlement with the city of Charlotte after it took 2.2 acres of land in one of the city’s trendiest and fastest-growing neighborhoods to build a new fire station, his attorneys ...