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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Read More »During the second pre-suit mediation of a negligence case involving a man struck and killed by a bus as he was walking into work, all parties have agreed to a $1 million settlement, attorneys for the man’s estate report. Most ...
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Read More »An 85-year-old woman who tumbled from a weathered rocking chair outside a rehabilitation facility has received a $200,000 settlement for her injuries, according to her attorneys. Margaret Robinson alleged in her complaint filed in Wake County that the facility had ...
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A lawsuit filed by a surgery patient who claims her doctor allowed her to fall off the operating table while she was under the knife is grounded in ordinary negligence, and not medical malpractice, a divided North Carolina Court of ...
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Read More »Gause v. New Hanover Regional Medical Center (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-008-17, 20 pp.) (Lucy Inman, J.) Appealed from New Hanover County Superior Court (Charles Henry, J.) N.C. App. Holding: An x-ray technician had to make a clinical judgment in deciding ...
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Read More »A 35-year-old Wake County woman will receive $2 million under a settlement with the insurance company representing the driver who caused a T-bone collision that left her with numerous broken bones and organ damage. As part of the settlement agreement, ...
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Read More »Two cyclists who were injured after Time Warner Cable failed to take care of a cable line that had fallen across a popular bicycling path have received a $500,000 verdict against the company, attorneys for the cyclists report. Hunt Willis ...
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If an employee commits a negligent act within in the scope of his duties, a vicariously liable company cannot also face claims of negligent hiring, supervision, training or retention, according to a federal judge in the Western District of North ...
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Read More »Glenn v. Johnson (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-183-16, 17 pp.) (Douglas McCullough, J.) Appealed from Orange County Superior Court (R. Allen Baddour Jr., & Elain O’Neal Bushfan, JJ.) N.C. App. Holding: In support of his claim for negligent infliction of emotional ...
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Read More »A Smithfield woman injured after another car sent her vehicle careening down a muddy embankment, where it overturned, was awarded $350,000 in January, her attorneys report. The woman, 52-year-old Regina Sato, suffered fractures in her foot and elbow, lacerations, and ...
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