Action: Dram shop liability Injuries alleged: Internal injuries Case name: Withheld Court/case no.: Withheld Jury and/or judge: N/A (settled without mediation) Amount: $1,025,000 Date: Aug. 2, 2022 Attorney: Seth Beckley and Matthew Gambale of Osborn Gambale Beckley & Budd in ...

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A Wake County mother and child were injured during a collision with a drunk driver. The plaintiffs have settled their claims against the driver and the establishments that served him for $2.51 million, the plaintiff’s attorneys, Winston Kirby and Andrew ...

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The family of a man who was killed in a head-on collision will receive a $1.3 million settlement, most of it from the drinking establishment which served alcohol to the driver that struck the victim’s vehicle, the family’s attorney reports.  Shawn Howard and KarlGwaltneyof Maginnis Howard in Raleigh and Andrew Cioffi of Raleigh represented ...

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  A motorcyclist has negotiated a $5 million confidential settlement of his claim against a North Carolina nightclub that overserved the man who caused the wreck that resulted in his leg amputation, his attorneys report. James Rainsford, Katherine Merritt, and ...

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A Buncombe County jury’s verdict in favor of a Wild Wing Café that had served more than a dozen drinks to a patron who was later involved in a car accident will be left undisturbed because the plaintiff’s proposed jury ...

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  The parents of a 20-year-old killed in a drunken driving wreck in North Carolina has confidentiality settled a lawsuit against the bar that served the drunk driver for $850,000, the family’s attorney reports. Hunt Willis of Martin & Jones ...

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  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 ...

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  A Charlotte woman’s decision to consume at least 10 alcoholic drinks in a few hours was grossly negligent as a matter of law, and so her estate can’t sue the hotel which served her those fatal drinks under a ...

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Holding: Where plaintiff’s decedent consumed at least 10 drinks in four and a half hours at defendants’ bar, plaintiff cannot sue defendants for his decedent’s death from alcohol poisoning because defendants and the decedent engaged in the same level of ...

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A jury might be asked to decide whose negligence was most wanton in the case of a Charlotte woman who died of alcohol poisoning at an Asheville resort. A divided Court of Appeals panel ruled April 5 that a trial ...

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