North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  A property owner in Charlotte will be allowed to continue using parking spaces, while receiving $650,000 from the City of Charlotte in exchange for a narrow strip of land, thanks to an April settlement to an eminent domain case. ...

Tagged with: Eminent Domain

  The unintended victim of a school shooting reached a $2 million settlement with Cumberland County’s board of education earlier this month, her attorney reports. Catilyn Abercrombie sued the county board of education after she was shot in the neck ...

Tagged with: Negligence

  A former inmate at Butner Federal Correctional Complex has received a $2.6 million settlement from the federal government after his lawyer said he went blind while incarcerated due to “grossly negligent medical care.” Vannara Nhar’s attorney said his client’s ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice

  In a case that made national news, a Durham judge has ordered a Texas man to pay $8.8 million to his lover’s ex-husband. Keith King, owner of King BMX Stunt Show, says Francisco Huizar ruined his marriage by sleeping ...

Tagged with: Alienation of Affections

A national law firm with ties to North Carolina has helped win a $383.5 million verdict in three wrongful death cases against a dialysis company accused of giving the patients a treatment without consulting with their doctors. The plaintiffs alleged ...

Tagged with: Colorado DaVita dialysis federal court verdict wrongful death lawsuit

A jury in Union County has awarded $500,000 to a boy who was left with serious facial injuries after a neighbor’s pit bull attacked him, according to an attorney for the child and his family. The boy’s family had struggled ...

Tagged with: dog attack

  Jurors in Cumberland County have reached verdicts in two Map Act cases that highlight the high cost that the state—and, ultimately, its taxpayers—will have to shoulder for making property owners wait years, sometimes decades, to be paid for condemnation ...

Tagged with: Map Act

The North Carolina Department of Transportation will pay $2.5 million—almost three times what it initially deposited—for taking almost an acre and a half of right-of-way, plus other takings, from a four-acre tract in Union County as part of its construction ...

Tagged with: Eminent Domain

  Copart Inc., a Texas-based online automobile-auction provider, successfully defended a $50 million breach of contract claim brought by Frank L. Bailey Inc., a Guilford County company. The claim was brought in Guilford County Superior Court in late 2016 after ...

Tagged with: Breach of Contract

A Concord man received a $1 million settlement after the driver of a tractor-trailer truck swerved into his lane on a highway in Cabarrus County, hitting his vehicle head-on and causing him to be thrown into the roadway. The crash ...

Tagged with: head on collision personal injury settlement