The family of a 60-year-old North Carolina woman who was killed after a commercial truck rear-ended her car has settled their claims for $9.85 million, the family’s attorneys report. The car had minor damage, but the woman died from ...

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  The family of a man who died six months after a pair of steel beams he was unloading crashed on top of him has won a $6 million verdict against a steel company that failed to properly secure the ...

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  The wife of a carpenter who was killed when a roof truss system collapsed on him has confidentially settled a wrongful death lawsuit for $1.05 million, her attorney reports. Jay Kerr of Asheville said that the carpenter, whose name ...

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Several families have reached an $8.6 million settlement with a former college student who killed two adults and a child while driving into oncoming traffic on Interstate 85 after binge drinking and smoking marijuana, according to attorneys for the plaintiffs. ...

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  The family of an elderly North Carolina woman whose festered blister resulted in her death has settled a lawsuit against a nursing home and its physicians for $2.2 million, the family’s attorney report. Carma Henson and Thomas Henson Jr. ...

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  The family of a teenage lifeguard who was electrocuted when she entered a swimming pool has confidentially settled a wrongful death lawsuit against multiple defendants for $6 million, the family’s attorneys reported. The 17-year-old was an experienced lifeguard, and ...

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  The family of a man who was hit by a tractor-trailer as he tried to pass the truck on his motorcycle has won a $1.55 million judgment against the truck’s driver after a bench trial in federal court. Thomas ...

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  The family of a boy who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel in Boone has settled a claim against the state medical examiner’s office, alleging that the office should have prevented the death by more quickly reporting ...

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  A Harnett County jury has awarded $250,000 to the parents of a man who was fatally shot by his father-in-law in a high profile 2013 incident. The Rev. Pat Chisenhall of Angier shot and killed his son-in-law, Christian Griggs, ...

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  The widower of a North Carolina woman who died after heart surgery has confidentially settled a wrongful death lawsuit for $1.4 million, her attorney reported. John Kenneth Moser of Comerford & Britt in Winston-Salem reported that the woman, whose ...

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