North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

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 ...

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  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 ...

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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 ...

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  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 ...

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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 ...

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  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 ...

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  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 ...

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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 ...

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  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 ...

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