Dozens of Wake County employees will be compensated with more than $378,000 as part of a settlement over wage and hour issues. “It was quite complex to figure it all out but once we did, we filed suit and ...
Tagged with: Fair Labor Standards Act
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By Heath Hamacher Several plaintiffs have agreed to a total settlement of more than $4.4 million in cases involving the 2014 bridge collapse at a Raleigh college that injured four construction workers and killed another. Multiple litigations were filed in ...
Tagged with: Wrongful Death
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The estate of a 21-year-old mechanic killed when a cylinder containing nitrous oxide exploded has settled several claims against the defendant company for $7.5 million, its attorneys report. James Roberts III and Matthew Quinn of Lewis & Roberts in Raleigh ...
Tagged with: product defect
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By Heath Hamacher hhamacher@nclawyersweekly.com A Wake County jury has awarded $87,000 to a woman who, along with her 3-year-old son, was struck by a vehicle while walking near the parking lot of a Zebulon Walmart. Ellis Boyle of Knott & ...
Tagged with: pedestrian
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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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