North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  An Asheville restaurant and sports bar franchise has successfully fended off a $350,000 dram shop suit, according to its attorney. Defendant William Erickson had been drinking at LJ Wings, also a defendant, before causing a car crash that injured ...

Tagged with: Dram Shop

  After a brick flew off a trailer, smashed through the windshield of a passing car and hit a woman in the face, it appeared that the case was worth no more than the $450,000 in insurance coverage for the ...

Tagged with: personal injury

A Mecklenburg County couple has secured a $120,992 verdict against a contractor who breached their construction contract and filed a false claim for a lien on the home the couple was building. The jury also rejected all of the contractor’s ...

Tagged with: Breach of Contract

  The North Carolina-based widow of a Good Samaritan who was killed while trying to help two truckers after a crash on the interstate in Oklahoma has received a $825,000 settlement, according to her Raleigh attorney. Jay Mills of Burns, ...

Tagged with: Wrongful Death

Family Dollar has agreed to pay $45 million to settle a federal class action alleging that the Matthews-based discount stores chain systematically paid female store managers less than their male counterparts. U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn Jr. of Charlotte on ...

Tagged with: Family Dollar

  The North Carolina Department of Transportation has paid more than $1.4 million to settle eminent domain cases with the owners of five buildings in a business park on Independence Boulevard, according to an attorney for the owners. Jason Campbell ...

Tagged with: Union County

A Mecklenburg County jury has awarded more than $2 million to two women who accused a Charlotte doctor of sexually assaulting them during their medical exams. Jurors ordered Dr. Fidelis Edosomwan, owner and president of Americare Health Plaza Medical Center, ...

Tagged with: Sexual Assault

An Asheville resort hotel employee who fell from a loading dock has received a $1.75 million settlement — after rejecting an initial offer of $165,000, according to his attorney. “Luckily, they didn’t go back and counter,” the plaintiff’s attorney, Jay ...

Tagged with: Slip and Fall

U.S. Tobacco Cooperative Inc. has reached a $24 million settlement with farmers and their heirs who brought a federal class action in an attempt to force the agricultural cooperative to distribute its reserves and be judicially dissolved. The suit followed ...

Tagged with: Class Action

The owner of 10 duplexes in Cleveland County has received more than $1.3 million from the North Carolina Department of Transportation, after the agency took a large chunk of the apartment property to build the U.S. 74 Shelby Bypass. The ...

Tagged with: Eminent Domain