A North Carolina family has reached a $3.5 million settlement with a power provider after a deaf and incompetent teen lost his hands and the use of his legs when he shocked himself with a voltage regulator in an attempt ...

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  Elaine Benes, from the sitcom “Seinfeld,” could have related to one plaintiff’s unusual plight. A former military officer whose job offer to work as a chaplain at a North Carolina hospital was revoked after she ate a poppy seed ...

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  A group of children injured while crossing a highway to board their school bus have agreed to settle their claims for $902,500, the children’s attorneys report. Jay Kerr of Asheville reported that the students were struck by an SUV ...

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  The unintended victim of a school shooting reached a $2 million settlement with Cumberland County’s board of education earlier this month, her attorney reports. Catilyn Abercrombie sued the county board of education after she was shot in the neck ...

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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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A couple injured in a crash with a dump truck has received a $1.13 million settlement from the trucking company’s insurer. William and Gloria Francis were stopped at a traffic light at an off ramp of I-40 near Burlington when ...

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BMG Rights Mgm’t LLC v. Cox Commc’ns Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-024-18, 37 pp.) (Motz, J.) No. 16-1972, Feb. 1, 2018; EDVA at Alexandria (O’Grady, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: Although an ISP’s “13-strike policy” did not qualify for safe harbor in a music ...

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  When staff at a hotel in Boone “upgraded” a mother and her 11-year-old son to Room 225, they never mentioned that a couple had died in that same room a few weeks earlier, according to a lawsuit that has ...

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A motorcyclist who crashed into a commercial pickup truck as he was heading to his parents’ home for Thanksgiving in 2015 has reached a nearly $3 million settlement with the truck’s driver and his company, the attorneys for the plaintiff ...

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A Chapel Hill woman who was injured in a head-on collision after another driver lost control of his car has reached an $825,000 settlement with the defendant driver, the woman’s attorney reports. Bob Whitley of the Whitley Law Firm in ...

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