North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A Surry County Superior Court has rejected a challenge to the last will and testament representing a $1 million estate led by a man who claimed his deceased brother was incapable of making the will. The court granted summary judgment ...

Tagged with: Estate Planning

The case of an 8-year-old girl who suffered a spinal cord stroke after being injured at a recreational center has been settled for $6 million, her attorneys report. Many facts of the case were withheld pursuant to a confidentiality clause, ...

Tagged with: personal injury

The city of Greensboro has agreed to pay $6.42 million to settle a federal lawsuit alleging that its law enforcement officials deprived a defendant of the right to a fair trial, leading to his conviction and 17-year imprisonment for a ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights

On Feb. 27, 2009, Emmit McNeill robbed a Raeford Burger King and tried to run away. Police caught him and after pleading guilty to robbery and kidnapping, among other charges, McNeill sits in prison today. But on Sept. 16, McNeill ...

Tagged with: Excessive Force

An arbitration panel has awarded $450,000 to a man who was injured in a traffic crash in New Hanover County. Ronald Neder argued that he sustained a mild traumatic brain injury when his car collided with a vehicle that pulled ...

Tagged with: Arbitration

In January 2009, 4-year-old Griffin Riso had gotten off of his school bus and was crossing the street toward his waiting mother when the bus driver accelerated. Griffin had not yet cleared the path of the bus, his attorney says, ...

Tagged with: Industrial Commission

A 52-year-old man who was hospitalized for two weeks after a tractor trailer truck rear-ended his car, launching it into another tractor-trailer, has reached a confidential $800,000 settlement, attorneys for the man’s settlement report. Attorney William Devin of Charlotte reported ...

Tagged with: tractor-trailer

More than $3.2 million in fees have been awarded to the attorneys who represented a group of financial advisors in a class-action lawsuit filed in Charlotte federal court against Merrill Lynch. The suit resulted in a $12.8 million settlement that ...

Tagged with: Bank of America

An arbitration panel in Mecklenburg County has awarded $190,000 to a woman who was injured in a car crash on a snowy morning last February, according to her attorney. Nicole Greer was stopped when another vehicle slid into her car ...

Tagged with: personal injury

A passenger who allegedly suffered a detached retina when the vehicle she was traveling in crashed into the back of another car has settled her case for $130,000, her attorneys report. According to attorney Pedro Krompecher of Raleigh, on Jan. ...

Tagged with: car crash