A Currituck County woman’s “household” did not include the son, daughter-in-law, or granddaughter who lived in a nearby house on her family farm, a divided North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled, granting an insurer’s request to deny coverage ...

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An insurance company that denied benefits to a disabled plant manager in the face of overwhelming evidence of his total disability has been sharply rebuked by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which unanimously affirmed a federal judge’s ruling ...

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The defendant-insured stressed to the third-party defendant-insurance agency that trademark and copyright infringement coverage was important, and the list of policy exclusions that the agency provided at defendant’s request did not contain an exclusion for trademark or copyright infringement. However, ...

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An injured worker who suffered a traumatic brain injury after falling 18 feet onto concrete will be able to pursue a malicious prosecution claim against an insurance company that he says gave false information to police in an effort to ...

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Where defendant was charged with defrauding The Hartford Insurance Company, but where the state presented evidence only that defendant made fraudulent statements to Nationwide, the state failed to prove the crime for which defendant was indicted. We vacate defendant’s conviction ...

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Booth v. Hackney Acquisition Co. (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-329-17, 12 pp.) (Hunter Murphy, J.) Appealed from the Industrial Commission. N.C. App. Holding: Although some occupational diseases, like the cancer that killed plaintiff’s decedent, do not develop for many years, the ...

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Nash Hospitals, Inc. v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-231-17, 25 pp.) (Lucy Inman, J.) Appealed from Nash County Superior Court (Cy Grant, J.) N.C. App. Holding: The defendant-insurance company violated G.S. §§ 44-50 and 44-50.1 ...

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Hetzel v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-013-17, 20 pp.) (Terrence Boyle, J.) 4:13-cv-00236; E.D.N.C. Holding: Even though plaintiff and the defendant-bank were parties to a contract, plaintiff alleges that the bank mishandled funds by paying off the ...

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David Wichnoski, O.D., P.A. v. Piedmont Fire Protection Systems, LLC (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-004-17, 25 pp.) (Linda McGee, C.J.) Appealed from Mecklenburg County Superior Court (Forrest Bridges, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Even though plaintiffs’ losses exceeded their policy limits, so ...

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Beal v. Coastal Carriers, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-410-16, 35 pp.) (Mark Davis, J.) Appealed from the Industrial Commission. N.C. App. Holding: Neither South Carolina law nor a South Carolina workers’ compensation policy requires the defendant-South Carolina carrier to provide ...

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