A 52-year-old man who was hospitalized for two weeks after a tractor trailer truck rear-ended his car, launching it into another tractor-trailer, has reached a confidential $800,000 settlement, attorneys for the man’s settlement report. Attorney William Devin of Charlotte reported ...

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A 59-year-old construction worker who was seriously injured when his car was hit by a tractor trailer received a $3.35 million dollar verdict from a Cumberland County jury, his attorneys report. The verdict was $350,000 more than the plaintiff had ...

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Silverman v. United States (Lawyers Weekly No. 11-03-0101, 25 pp.) (William L. Osteen Jr., J.) M.D.N.C. Holding: Even if the Post Office loaded the plaintiff-truck driver’s trailer unevenly, plaintiff’s speeding – 10 mph over the posted speed limit of 55 ...

Tagged with: Contributory Negligence personal injury Tort-Negligence tractor-trailer

A 6-year-old restrained left rear passenger in a motor vehicle operated by his mother collided with an oncoming tractor trailer on a city street in Winston-Salem on Sept. 14, 2007. The defendant driver of the tractor-trailer reported the motor vehicle ...

Tagged with: auto accident Forsyth County motor vehicle personal injury tractor-trailer wreck

On Oct. 22, 2008, at approximately 6:52 a.m. – before sunrise – the plaintiff’s husband was driving his 2000 Toyota automobile in the middle lane in a generally westerly direction on N.C. Highway 49 approaching the intersection of Kee Lane ...

Tagged with: accident auto accident Cabarrus County tractor-trailer Trucking wreck Wrongful Death

Plaintiff was a passenger in an auto stopped on the shoulder of an interstate highway at night when the defendant’s semi truck ran into the vehicle from behind. Plaintiff was in a vegetative state for approximately one year and ultimately ...

Tagged with: accident Alamance County auto accident personal injury tractor-trailer Trucking wreck Wrongful Death

Defendant-truck driver was driving a 2003 Freightliner tractor pulling an enclosed van semi-trailer north/northwest on N.C. 147 in Durham. Plaintiff Jane Doe, age 60 and an oncology nurse at Duke University Medical Center, was driving her 2000 Toyota Camry on ...

Tagged with: accident auto accident Durham County Fractures Lacerations personal injury tractor-trailer Truck Driver Trucking wreck

The plaintiff’s intestate was a deputy sheriff who was on duty working a traffic collision that had occurred in an area of dense smoke and fog during hours of darkness. He was struck by the defendant’s tractor-trailer, which had attempted ...

Tagged with: Mediation tractor-trailer Trucking wreck Wrongful Death

This case, which was pending in a rural, western part of the state, settled for $10 million just before the trial was scheduled to start. The plaintiff, a 34-year-old male, had two jobs, the second of which was making deliveries ...

Tagged with: auto accident Fractures hip injury knee injury motor vehicle tractor-trailer wreck

The plaintiff, after mowing the grassy shoulder of U.S. 64, was in the process of moving his tractor mower to a new location on U.S. 421, just outside of Siler City, when his mower was hit from the rear by ...

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