Personal Injury Law

Republicans Propose Bill Protecting Drug Makers from North Carolina Products Liability Lawsuits

Posted on March 29, 2011
Under the House version of a North Carolina medical malpractice reform bill, a person injured by a drug that had been approved by government regulators would not be able to file a North Carolina dangerous drug lawsuit against manufacturer. The bill is part of a larger tort reform package that wants to cap noneconomic damages at $250,000 and for the amount that is awarded to be adjusted every three years to reflect the Consumer Price Index...

Topamax as a Dangerous Drug?: FDA Warns of Possible Birth Defect Risk

Posted on March 26, 2011
Following new data indicating that babies born to women who were pregnant when Topamax are at higher risk of developing a cleft palate, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has decided to strengthen the warning labels that come with the drug. Topamax?s generic equivalents will also get new labels...

Multi-Vehicle Charlotte, North Carolina Traffic Crash on I-277 Kills One, Injures 8

Posted on March 21, 2011
What should have been a case of police officers inspecting a disabled Chevrolet Impala on I-277 turned into a tragic, Charlotte, North Carolina multi-vehicle collision that killed one man and sent eight people to the hospital. The traffic crash is under investigation...

Woman Suing Omni Hotel for Charlotte, North Carolina Personal Injury Lawsuit Claims Bartender Raped Her

Posted on March 21, 2011
A woman who claims that a bartender at Charlotte?s Omni Hotel gave her a drink that made her dizzy and then raped her is suing the hotel chain and several other defendants for North Carolina personal injury. She claims she was sexually assaulted in September 2007 when she was the guest of someone staying at the hotel...

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$14.9M North Carolina Wrongful Death Judgment Awarded to Jimmy Blevins? Family

Posted on March 14, 2011
Four years after Jimmy Blevins was murdered by his uncle Fred Hammer, a judge has awarded his family a $14.9 million North Carolina wrongful death judgment--$3.74 million is compensatory damages; $11.2 million is punitive damages. Blevins, 41, went missing on February 24, 2007...

More Charlotte, North Carolina Personal Injury Lawsuits Filed in Alleged Sex Assaults Involving Police Officer Marcus Jackson

Posted on March 06, 2011
Another two woman are suing Charlotte-Mecklenburg police Officer Marcus Jackson for North Carolina personal injury. Jackson, now an ex-cop, is already sentenced to two years in prison for sexually assaulting six women while on the job. In these latest Charlotte-Mecklenburg personal injury complaints, the plaintiffs contend that Jackson stopped their car on the evening of December 28, 2009...

North Carolina Personal Injury Filed Over 2008 Assault at Convenience Store Alleges Inadequate Security

Posted on February 28, 2011
A woman who was assaulted at a convenience story in 2008 is suing Great Stops LLC, its parent owner Premier Stores, and three individual owners for North Carolina personal injury. She is seeking compensation for the physical and emotional injuries that she suffered...

NC Senate Bill 33 Proposes to Cap North Carolina Medical Malpractice Damages at $250,000

Posted on February 22, 2011
Last week, state lawmakers introduced Senate Bill 33. This bill places an arbitrary $250,000 cap on North Carolina medical malpractice damages for injuries involving mutilation, disfigurement, paralysis, loss of limb, pain, suffering, and death. The bill also grants ER doctors and other hospital emergency personnel immunity from medical malpractice?unless gross negligence or wanton conduct or intentional wrongdoing was involved...

Protecting Americans from Defective Medical Devices: Is the FDA Doing Enough?

Posted on February 18, 2011
According to a report in the Archives of Internal Medicine, there are questions as to whether the Food and Drug Administration is doing a good enough job of protecting Americans from defective medical devices. This is obviously an issue of concern for patients, as well as for our Charlotte, North Carolina defective medical devices attorneys who are familiar with how dangerous faulty/malfunctioning devices can be for patients...

South Carolina Infant Death Prompts Recall of 1.7M Summer Infant Baby Monitors

Posted on February 14, 2011
The deaths of two infants last year has led the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Summer Infant Inc. to recall 1.7 million video baby monitors with electrical cords. Both babies died in strangulation accidents involving the cords. One of the child deaths occurred in Conway, South Carolina to a 6-month-old boy...

Two People Sustain Burn Injuries in Fire at Charlotte, North Carolina Nursing Home

Posted on February 12, 2011
Two people were transported to the hospital on Saturday night after they were injured in a fire at White Oak Manor, a Charlotte, North Carolina nursing home. According to fire investigators, one of the victims has life-threatening injuries. Our Charlotte, North Carolina personal injury law firm is aware of the havoc burn injuries can wreak on the body...

Charlotte, North Carolina Personal Injury Case Over Sex Assault by CMPD Cop is settled for $350,000

Posted on February 07, 2011
The city of Charlotte has settled the North Carolina personal injury case file by a 17-year-old woman who was sexually assaulted by former CMPD police officer Marcus Jackson. The ex-cop pleaded guilty last month to assaulting six women and he is now behind bars...

GlaxoSmithKline Settles Dangerous Drug Lawsuit Over North Carolina Wrongful Death of Man from Taking Avandia

Posted on January 31, 2011
GlaxoSmithKline and the family of James Burford have reached an out of court settlement over his wrongful death. The North Carolina man died in 2006. The dangerous drug agreement was reached right before the jury trial, which was set to open today. By settling, GSK avoided what could have been a large verdict amount that may have included punitive damages...

Caretaker Accused of North Carolina Elder Abuse in Beating of 91-Year-Old Woman

Posted on January 27, 2011
Police in Kings Mountain have charged Lisa Parson Jones with assault on a handicapped person. Jones is the live-in caretaker of a 91-year-old woman. She is accused of beating the elderly senior and throwing her across a room. Unfortunately, North Carolina elder abuse is not uncommon...

Kannapolis Man?s Lawsuit Accuses Cabarrus County Sheriff's Office of North Carolina Personal Injury

Posted on January 19, 2011
Dale Cook is suing the Cabarrus County Sheriff's Office for the North Carolina personal injuries he claims that he sustained after he was Tasered. Cook, who fell from a tree while officers apprehended him, says he fractured his spine during the incident and he now cannot walk...

North Carolina Injuries and Deaths on the Job May Be Grounds for Both Third Party Lawsuits and Workers? Compensation Claims

Posted on January 14, 2011
WRAL is reporting that according to the state Department of Labor, 48 people were killed in North Carolina work accidents in 2009. Most common causes of worker fatalities that year included an object or vehicle crushing or striking a worker, fall accidents, and electrocution accidents...

Waxhaw Pit Bull Attack Leaves 5-Year-Old Dead and Her Grandmother with Serious Injuries

Posted on January 12, 2011
5-year-old girl McKayla Woodard has died from injuries she sustained this morning during a Waxhaw, North Carolina dog attack involving two pit bulls. Her grandmother, who tried to rescue her from the dogs, is alive but with serious injuries. A family member of McKayla?s says that the Union, North Carolina dog mauling happened as the young girl tried to get into the fenced yard next to her home...

North Carolina Injury Lawsuit Seeks Damages from Pittsboro Retirement Center for Assault that Left Elderly Resident with Brain Injuries

Posted on January 05, 2011
Becky Fisher, 80, is suing the Galloway Ridge retirement community for North Carolina personal injury. Fisher sustained a brain injury in 2007 when housekeeper Barbara Clark assaulted her. Clark is serving a two life prison terms for the first-degree murders of Margaret Murta, 92, and Mary Corcoran, 82, who were fatally injured during the assault, which involved pepper spray and a walking stick...

Drop-Side Crib Ban and Tougher Crib Safety Rules Will Hopefully Prevent Some North Carolina Child Injuries and Deaths

Posted on December 29, 2010
This month, the Consumer Product Safety Administration voted to ban the manufacture and sale of drop-side cribs. The nation?s safety regulator has also passed tougher crib safety rules that will eliminate some of the hazards infants and young children have had to contend with over the years...

Mint Hill Dog Attack Injures Grandmother and Six-Year-Old Boy

Posted on December 24, 2010
In Mecklenburg County, a 6-year-old boy is in critical condition after being attacked by a pit bull on Wednesday. Also injured in the Mint Hill dog mauling incident was the child?s grandmother, who tried to rescue him. The pit bull belongs to a relative...

North Carolina Nursing Home Negligence Alleged in Wrongful Death Lawsuits of Shooting Victims? Families

Posted on December 21, 2010
The families of two of the eight people who were shot and killed during a shooting at Pinelake Health and Rehabilitation Center on March 20009 are suing the assisted living facility for North Carolina nursing home negligence. In their North Carolina wrongful death complaints, the relatives of 78-year-old John Goldston and 98-year-old Louise DeKler claim that the Carthage assisted living facility and its owner Peak Resources did not do enough to protect residents despite the fact that the alleged shooter Robert Stewart?s estranged wife had warned the facility?s supervisors that he might come for her that day...

Family of Charlotte, North Carolina Teen Who Fell From US Airways Plane Want to Know How He Was Able to Stow Away

Posted on December 17, 2010
The family of teenager Delvonte Tisdale want to know how the 16-year-old was able to sneak onto a US Airways plane last month. Now, Charlotte airport authorities are asking police to investigate how the boy was able to get past security. One theory under exploration is that the teen jumped the 6-foot chain link fence that has barbed wire on top of it...

Family Agrees to $5M North Carolina Wrongful Death Settlement with Chewing Tobacco Manufacturer

Posted on December 12, 2010
The family of Bobby Hill have settled their North Carolina wrongful death case against US Smokeless Tobacco Co. for $5 million. Hill, who started chewing tobacco at age 13, died in 2003 from mouth and tongue cancer. He was 42. His wife Kelly sued the maker of Skoal and Copenhagen smokeless tobacco in 2005...

North Carolina Medical Malpractice?: Study of 10 Local Hospitals Reveal Failure to Decrease Hospital Mistakes

Posted on December 06, 2010
According to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, efforts to lower the number of medical errors made in US hospitals have generally failed. The Brigham and Women?s Hospital researchers examined the practices conducted at 10 North Carolina hospitals between 2002 and 2007...

North Carolina Dangerous Drug Lawsuit Involving Zometa and Aredia Results in $12.8M Verdict Against Novartis AG

Posted on November 29, 2010
A jury has awarded the family of Rita Fussman $12.8 million in their Winston-Salem, North Carolina dangerous drug lawsuit against Novartis AG. Fussman died of breast cancer in 2009. However, her family contends that prior to her passing she experienced more discomfort than she should have because the chemotherapy drugs Aredia and Zometa caused her to develop osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ), which involves the decaying of the jaw bone...

Banning Defective Medical Devices: Report Raises Questions About Whether FDA is Doing Enough to Protect People

Posted on November 24, 2010
A new report published in BMJ, a British medical journal, is questioning the US Food and Drug Administration?s ability to keep defective and dangerous medical devices out of the market. The paper contends that inadequate manpower, an insufficient budget, lack of authority, and the agency?s co-opting by special interests, medical devices makers, and political forces are rendering the FDA unable to do its job to protect the public...

Dangerous Drug?: Darvon Pulled from Market Over Concerns It May Cause Potentially Fatal Heart Rhythms

Posted on November 22, 2010
Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals is pulling the painkiller Darvon off the market. The Food and Drug Administration issued the ban over concerns that it causes potentially fatal heart rhythms. The FDA is also banning related brand Darvocet and wants drug manufacturers to stop marketing low-cost drugs that contain propoxyphene, which is the active ingredient in Darvon...

North Carolina Nursing Home Negligence?: Facility Investigated Following Five Patient Deaths from Hepatitis B

Posted on November 16, 2010
Public health investigators have been looking into whether the use of unclean or shared diabetes testing equipment caused at least eight patients to contract hepatitis B GlenCare Mount Olive center the GlenCare of Mount Olive. Five of the patients passed away last week...

North Carolina Personal Injury: A Free Step-by-Step Guide for Victims and Their Families

Posted on November 11, 2010
Our Charlotte, North Carolina injury lawyers at the Law Offices of Michael A. DeMayo, L.L.P. know how confusing and scared you must feel now that you or a loved one has been involved in an accident. To help you get through this stressful and challenging time, we have written a book called ?Carolina Injury Law: A Reference Guide for Accident Victims? that is available for free to all South Carolina and North Carolina residents...

$200,000 North Carolina Injury Settlement Reached with Roommate of Teen Who Was Fatally Shot by Sheriff?s Corporal

Posted on November 06, 2010
A North Carolina personal injury settlement has been reached between Michael Rhoton and New Hanover County. Rhoton is accusing Sheriff Ed McMahon, ex-Sheriff Sid Causey, other office members, and the county?s insurer of failing to follow proper procedures when a warrant was served to his roommate Peyton Strickland on December 1, 2006...

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