Action: Motor vehicle negligence Injuries alleged: TBI, left eye vision loss, fractured thumb, decreased left ear hearing Case name: Withheld Court/case no.: Withheld Jury and/or judge: N/A (settled after mediation) Name of mediator: Daniel Gaylord Amount: $1.25 million Special damages: ...

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Action: Motor vehicle negligence Injuries alleged: Permanent disability Case name: Withheld Court/case no.: Wilkes County Superior Court Jury and/or judge: Withheld Amount: $0 Attorney: Jeremy Stephenson and Kelsey Dorton of Wilson Elser in Charlotte (for the defense)   An employee ...

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Action: Motor vehicle negligence Amount: $900,000 Injuries alleged: Fractured left hip, fractured right ankle, six fractured ribs, fractured left knee Case name: Withheld Court/case no.: Withheld Jury and/or judge: N/A (settled post-mediation) Date of settlement: October 2022 Attorney for plaintiff: Meredith ...

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  A $1.5 million settlement has been reached in a case involving a man whose legs were crushed while he was trying to free his mother from a gurney attached to a runaway ambulance. The suit was resolved in a ...

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A Mecklenburg County jury has declined to hold a truck driver and his employer liable for a crash that led to the death of a 68-year-old woman. David Estrada was driving a box truck for Standout Enterprises Inc. on Interstate ...

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Attorney Doug Maynard saw a $50,000 initial offer turn into an $800,000 settlement, and he thinks his client’s testimony under oath played a big part in the resolution of the case. Michael Gilkerson, 30, was filling his gas tank on ...

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The survivors of an 88-year-old dementia patient debilitated by a car accident won a $485,000 settlement on her behalf, reached this summer before a suit was filed. Plaintiff’s attorney C. Douglas Maynard Jr. said the woman had been diagnosed with ...

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A remarkable recovery does not diminish the pain and suffering an automobile accident victim endures along the way. That was the case attorney Joseph Tunstall III made on behalf of his plaintiff, a middle-age woman who suffered mild traumatic brain injury, internal bleeding and broken bones in her face and body, but was later able to return to her job as a licensed practical nurse.

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The evidence showed that at approximately 6 p.m. on Oct. 26, 2007, Thomas Simon, Cheryle Simon, George Wiggins and Mary Elizabeth Wiggins were returning to Fleetwood after a day of Christmas shopping in Winston-Salem. Thomas Simon was driving his 2002 ...

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Plaintiff’s vehicle was struck from behind by a vehicle travelling at 45 mph.  Plaintiff lost consciousness in the collision. In March 2007, he underwent cervical decompression, a complete diskectomy, bilateral foraminotomies and decompression of the nerve roots.  He developed depression ...

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