A group of parents has reached a settlement with a preschool in Charlotte that they said discriminated against their children because of disabilities, the families’ attorneys report. Calvary Child Development Center and a group of five families came to an ...

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In 2008, Jennifer Martin was two weeks away from realizing her dream of becoming a North Carolina State Highway Patrol trooper when an initial hairline fracture she suffered cut short her career with the agency following an exercise session that ...

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A federal jury in North Carolina awarded a South Carolina man $275,000—and his wife $25,000—in compensation for a car accident that occurred when another driver lost control of her vehicle and crossed the median while driving along Interstate 95 in ...

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The survivors of an 88-year-old dementia patient debilitated by a car accident won a $485,000 settlement on her behalf, reached this summer before a suit was filed. Plaintiff’s attorney C. Douglas Maynard Jr. said the woman had been diagnosed with ...

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A software developer who created a unique program to help companies perform well on Internet searches will now have to search for over $263,000 after a Wake County judge ruled that he took protected trade secrets with him when he ...

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An insurance company is on the hook for over $212,000 in legal fees a policyholder owes to a designer of home building plans after a federal judge rejected its arguments in a declaratory judgment motion.

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The parents of a stillborn baby have settled a wrongful death lawsuit against a North Carolina medical practice for $400,000. They accused an obstetrician of waiting too long to perform an ultrasound on the mother and alleged that a triage nurse failed to tell the mother to have an immediate evaluation after she reported that her baby wasn’t kicking as much as it had been.

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A mother of four young children died of heart complications after being misdiagnosed during several visits to the same hospital, according to the attorneys who helped her husband win a six-figure verdict in McDowell County Superior Court. The defense is appealing the decision. William H. Elam (pictured) and his son William R. Elam of Elam & Rousseaux in Charlotte sued two doctors and a physician assistant at McDowell Hospital in Marion, alleging that they bungled the treatment of Aziza Katy and caused her tragic death. A jury awarded Katy’s estate $667,000 in September, and the defense filed an appeal Dec. 12.

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