North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  The state’s decision to challenge a ruling ordering the chief medical examiner’s office to pay more than $350,000 for botching a manner of death investigation has resulted in a costly backfire. The case centers on the death of Shannon ...

Tagged with: death

  According to his attorneys, Wilson Jarrell was almost home when the tractor he was driving along U.S. Highway 158 in Roanoke Rapids was rear-ended by a speeding state trooper. Jarrell, who suffered life-threatening injuries, survived the crash and was ...

Tagged with: personal injury

A Wake County judge handed down a directed defense verdict April 26 after plaintiffs presented evidence, saying they failed to show the company that made the potato salad that gave a man food poisoning was responsible for his sickness. Defense ...

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The North Carolina Department of Transportation will pay slightly more than $2 million for the taking of roughly 16 acres of right-of-way from a large tract of undeveloped land in Union County as part of the construction of the Monroe ...

Tagged with: Eminent Domain

  A painter who was run over by a bucket lift vehicle has settled out of court with the employer of the driver for $1.6 million. Plaintiff’s lawyer Isaac Thorp of Raleigh said the settlement occurred after the court denied ...

Tagged with: Fayetteville Negligence settlement

  Dude, you’re getting a settlement check. In the early 2000s, Dell, a computer maker, was famous for its “Dude, you’re getting a Dell!” ad campaign. But earlier this year, it agreed to pay out more than $3 million to ...

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A Robeson County jury has awarded a $13 million verdict to the family of a man who was killed by a tractor-trailer driver who plowed into the back of his pickup truck at full speed in a 2015 crash. The ...

Tagged with: Wrongful Death

Businesses that were devastated by the nine-day power outage that plunged the Outer Banks into darkness last summer will be able to collect restitution in time for this year’s tourist season after a federal judge gave preliminary approval to a ...

Tagged with: Class Action

  A man will receive an $800,000 settlement after another driver turned left in front of his motorcycle in downtown Charlotte, causing a crash. Elizabeth Grimes of Charlotte, who represented the plaintiff, reported that the previously healthy 32-year-old father of ...

Tagged with: personal injury

  A jury in Union County has awarded nearly $4 million in compensatory damages to the widow of a construction worker who was buried alive, prompting a confidential settlement in the case before the punitive damages stage of the trial ...

Tagged with: Wrongful Death