Action: Medical malpractice Injuries alleged: Severe brain damage Case name: Withheld Court/case no.: Withheld Jury and/or judge: Withheld Amount: $7,950,000 Attorney: Rachel A. Fuerst of Henson & Fuerst in Raleigh and Amberley Hammer of Amberley Hammer in Currituck (for the ...

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A national law firm with ties to North Carolina has helped win a $383.5 million verdict in three wrongful death cases against a dialysis company accused of giving the patients a treatment without consulting with their doctors. The plaintiffs alleged ...

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A veteran Henderson County judge overreached when he amended a jury verdict awarding $1 in a wrongful death medical malpractice suit and entered a substitute judgment of more than $500,000, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled. Jurors initially ...

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A Harnett County jury has returned a $1.6 million verdict in favor of a woman who suffered traumatic brain injury after a pickup truck slammed into her car, her attorneys report.

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NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City jury on Thursday awarded $47.8 million to the families of two men killed in 2008 when a construction crane collapsed. The jury ordered James Lomma, the owner of the crane, and his companies to pay ...

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Desperate to sell empty lots in a foreclosed subdivision, a group of lenders turned to a marketing company that made big promises and had the references to back them up.

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A Mecklenburg County jury recently awarded more than $250,000 to an elderly woman injured after being knocked down by a restroom door in a Charlotte Arby’s. Jean Tarry was traveling in 2012 with her family through North Carolina after vacationing ...

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A jury awarded $1.7 million in damages to a Raleigh software company recently after finding that a competitor had engaged in misleading advertising in comparing its products to theirs. EMove and Web Team Associates, subsidiaries of U-Haul International, and SMD ...

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A Caldwell County jury has awarded $1.25 million to a woman who was knocked down and dragged across 25 feet of parking lot while trapped underneath the bumper of a tractor trailer. The jury found that the victim had partially ...

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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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