Editor’s note: This settlement report was submitted to us in January 2017, but was never published due to an editorial oversight. It should have been included in our Top Verdicts & Settlements list for 2017 but wasn’t. Lawyers Weekly ...

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  Superior court judges have the discretion to consider additional evidence when deciding whether to award additional attorney fees involving workers’ compensation claims and home health care aides, the North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled. The decision overturns a 2016 ...

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  A woman injured in 2015 after falling over a box at work has settled her claims for more than $2.4 million, her attorneys report. Many of the facts of the case have been withheld pursuant to a confidentiality agreement. ...

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Where plaintiff alleges that the defendant-workers’ compensation insurance carrier had false criminal charges brought against him in an attempt to get out of its duty to pay his workers’ compensation benefits, plaintiff has stated a claim for malicious prosecution, which ...

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Defendant, the owner of the vehicle in which plaintiff’s decedent was killed, waited until months after default was entered against him before he claimed that the decedent had been his employee and had been killed in the course of her ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Gov. Roy Cooper wants a longtime state judge to serve on the North Carolina Industrial Commission after the General Assembly rejected a previous nominee. Cooper announced July 27 that Judge Robby Hassell of Greensboro is his choice for the ...

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RALEIGH (AP) A North Carolina city employee isn’t owed workers’ compensation for an injury he suffered while smoking during a lunch break, the state appeals court ruled May 15. A three-judge panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals said ...

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A trash collector who fell while riding on the back of a garbage truck has received a more than $1.6 million settlement, according to his attorney. John Hensley Jr. of Asheville reported that the fall in 2016 left his client ...

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  In 2015, the state Court of Appeals denied workers’ compensation benefits for a city worker after finding that he settled with the third party tortfeasor without properly notifying his employer. The man’s counsel and another attorney, a workers’ compensation ...

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A nurse who was injured on the job will able to file a claim for workers’ comp after the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that employers, not workers, are responsible for determining which insurer should be notified about a ...

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