Frankenmuth Insurance v. City of Hickory (Lawyers Weekly No. 14-07-0653, 13 pp.) (Robert C. Hunter, J.) Appealed from Catawba County Superior Court (Timothy Kincaid, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Since plaintiff claimed that the defendant-city failed to prevent excessive pressures in ...

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James Earl Bynum was severely injured when he fell down the front steps of a Wilson County office building after paying his water bill. Bynum and his wife sued the county and the county’s landlord for negligence. The county claimed ...

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A locomotive engineer who developed post-traumatic stress disorder after the train he was operating collided with a Mack truck stopped on the tracks collected a $550,000 settlement. According to a report submitted by plaintiff’s attorney Woodrow Gunter II, Kenneth Hinson ...

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A locomotive engineer who developed post-traumatic stress disorder after the train he was operating collided with a tanker truck stranded at a railroad crossing received an award of $865,175 from a Mecklenburg County jury. The lawsuit consisted of negligence claims ...

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SOMA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish mining company defended its safety record Friday, four days after at least 284 people died in an underground blaze at its coal mine in western Turkey. A maximum of 18 miners remain missing and ...

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After contested mediation, which included a forklift horn being sounded as testimony, a 62-year-old plaintiff injured when a forklift hit him and a 5,000-pound coil fell on him settled claims against the forklift operators’ employer for $1.1 million. The coil ...

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A 51-year-old woman whose left leg was severed just below the knee will receive $1 million from her insurer, an arbitration panel has ruled. Barbara Russell and her husband were riding their motorcycles near the Blue Ridge Parkway in Asheville ...

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Assistance Travel and Transport of Durham settled a claim through its insurance carrier for $650,000 when its employee was allegedly negligent in a motor vehicle collision. Donna Farkas was driving a van owned by Assistance when she was in a ...

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Etheridge v. Levitsky (Lawyers Weekly No. 14-16-0084, 21 pp.) (Sam Ervin IV, J.) Appealed from Currituck County Superior Court (Henry W. Hight Jr. & Walter H. Godwin Jr., JJ.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: The issue of defendant’s negligence was properly ...

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Garmon v. Hagans Before the case went to the jury, defendant admitted that he had been negligent; nevertheless, the jury could still consider whether plaintiff was contributorily negligent because pleadings can be amended during trial.

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