North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  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

A construction worker who was fired from his job working on a project in Charlotte—and physically assaulted by the project’s superintendent after complaining to management that the superintendent was drinking on the job—has won a $750,000 verdict against his former ...

Tagged with: Punitive Damages

A couple injured in a crash with a dump truck has received a $1.13 million settlement from the trucking company’s insurer. William and Gloria Francis were stopped at a traffic light at an off ramp of I-40 near Burlington when ...

Tagged with: Negligence

  The estate of a man killed when his motorcycle crashed into a mowing tractor has settled its wrongful death lawsuit for $1.8 million, according to its attorneys. On Aug. 15, 2017, Joseph Baker, 66, was riding his Harley Davidson ...

Tagged with: Wrongful Death