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State Combats North Carolina Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect with Tougher Ratings Standards

Posted on January 05, 2010
Beginning this week, the state of North Carolina is imposing tougher standards on assisted living facilities. Nursing homes can now receive a four star rating, but it will be harder to earn this highest rating and a facility will have to earn high ratings for over two years...

Deceased Man?s Estate Files Fayetteville, North Carolina Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Shopping Mall and Nightclub

Posted on December 30, 2009
The family of Alejandro Gonzales Reyes has filed a North Carolina wrongful death lawsuit against the Palomino nightclub and the owners of the shopping center where the now-defunct business was located. Reyes was fatally shot on January 11 outside the club...

North Carolina Personal Injury Lawsuit Accuses Panthers Linebacker Jon Beason of Assault

Posted on December 22, 2009
A football fan who says that he was assaulted by Carolina Panthers linebacker Jon Beason is suing the football player for North Carolina personal injury. Gregory Frye says Beason beat him in Charlotte on November 15 for telling another Panthers football player that he had seen the linebacker ?doing coke with some girl? at Lake Norman last June...

Dangerous Drug Lawsuit: Jury Orders Pfizer to Pay $38.4 Million To Breast Cancer Survivor Who Used Hormone Replacement Drugs

Posted on December 15, 2009
Last month, a jury ruled against Pfizer in the dangerous drug lawsuit filed by a breast cancer survivor who used the hormone replacement drugs Prempro, Premarin, and Provera. The verdict in favor of plaintiff Donna Kendall: $28 million in punitive damages and $6...

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North Carolina Wrongful Death Settlement Reached Between City of Charlotte and Family of Woman Fatally Struck by Fallen Tree

Posted on December 09, 2009
A Charlotte, North Carolina wrongful death settlement has been reached between the city and the family of Kay Plyler. The agreement comes today just as jury selection in the civil trial was about to begin. Plyler died in March 2008 when a tree fell on the car that she and her daughter Taylor, then 14, were riding in...

NC DOT to Study State Bridges Following Second Fatal Fall

Posted on December 03, 2009
The North Carolina Department of Transportation is examining some 17,000 bridges to determine if safety measures can be taken to prevent more fatal falls. On Friday, 33-year-old Carroll Lee Eames fell to his death while helping the car crash victims of a multi-vehicle wreck on the Interestate-440 bridge on the Outer Beltline...

Appeals Court Considers Whether Family Has Right to Sue for North Carolina Personal Injury After Pedestrian Was Mistakenly Declared Dead

Posted on December 01, 2009
The family of 34-year-old Larry D. Green is asking North Carolina?s Court of Appeals to let them sue Louisburg paramedics for personal injury. State law usually protects civil servants from being sued for North Carolina personal injury if the alleged negligence occurred while the worker was doing his or her job...

Family Considers Filing North Carolina Wrongful Death Lawsuit After Mental Patient Suffers Fatal Overdose

Posted on November 25, 2009
The family of Jefferey Scott Swaim is considering filing a North Carolina wrongful death lawsuit against Cherry Hospital. Swaim, 40, was found unconscious on a Greyhound bus two hours after he was discharged from the mental hospital. According to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Chapel Hill, Swaim died on July 16 from acute Fentanyl poisoning...

Dangerous Drug Lawsuit: Man Claims Diabetes Drug Avandia Caused Heart Attack

Posted on November 19, 2009
A 58-year-old man has filed a dangerous drug lawsuit against GlaxosmithKline because he says that the medication Avandia caused his heart attack. Kenneth L. Bryan had taken the prescription drug for his diabetes. In his personal injury lawsuit, Bryan claims that he suffered a heart attack two years after he started taking Avandia...

North Carolina Wrongful Death Lawsuit Names City of Morganton and Three Officers as Defendants

Posted on November 16, 2009
The sister of a man who died after being Tasered in 2007 is suing the city of Morganton and three Department of Public Safety officers for his North Carolina wrongful death. Pamela Carroll wants the case to go to trial. Her brother, Donald Grant Clarke, sustained brain injuries when he fell into a concrete porch after the officers Tasered him...

North Carolina Injuries to Children: 1 Million Maclaren Strollers Recall Warns about Fingertip Amputation Hazard

Posted on November 11, 2009
North Carolina and South Carolina parents with Maclaren strollers have reason to be concerned following reports that 12 children suffered fingertip amputations in the hinges of the foldable umbrella models. Following the child injury accidents, Maclaren and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission are recalling approximately one million strollers...

Products Liability: Two Families Sue for Wrongful Deaths of Loved Ones Fatally Burned While Wearing Flammable Bathrobes

Posted on November 06, 2009
Last month, two wrongful death lawsuits were filed by plaintiffs whose loved ones died tragically when the chenille bathrobes they were wearing caught fire. Bathrobe manufacturer Blair Corp. is the defendant named in both complaints. Atwilda Brown, was making tea when the catastrophic accident happened...

Raleigh Motorcyclist Dies Following North Carolina Injury Accident

Posted on November 03, 2009
The Raleigh man who was injured in a hit-and-run North Carolina traffic accident has died. Michael Stegler was 49. The Raleigh motorcycle accident happened on October 2 when Stegler?s motorcycle was struck by a van that did not stop at the crash site...

Kids are Twice as Likely to Die in North Carolina Pedestrian Accidents on Halloween Night, Says Safe Kids USA

Posted on October 26, 2009
According to Safe Kids USA, a child?s chances of dying in a pedestrian accident more than doubles on Halloween night. 4-10pm on October 31 is when child pedestrian fatality statistics go from 1 child death/night (for these same six hours) to 2.2 kid fatalities for the evening...

Goldsboro Driver Sustains Burn Injuries in Fayetteville, North Carolina Truck Crash

Posted on October 24, 2009
As of yesterday, a Goldsboro tanker-truck driver who sustained burn injuries from a Fayetteville, North Carolina truck accident on Interstate 95 on Monday night remains in critical condition. Frankie Graves is in Chapel Hill at the N.C. Jaycee Burn Center...

Wrongful Death?: Following 3rd ?Sweat Lodge? Fatality, One Family Member Cries ?Murder?

Posted on October 19, 2009
A third person has died after participating in the sweat lodge ceremony facilitated by self-help expert James Arthur Ray. Participants paid over $9,000 each to take part in his ?Spiritual Warrior? program. Part of the program involved over 50 people entering a sweat lodge for a purification ceremony...

Court of Appeals Gives Green Light for Widow?s North Carolina Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against City of Gastonia

Posted on October 12, 2009
A woman?s Gaston County, North Carolina wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Gastonia can move forward, says the NC Court of Appeals. The appellate court reversed a Superior Court judge?s decision to drop the lawsuit because of a procedural technicality...

Two Parasailing Companies File Complaint to Limit Wrongful Death Liability in Parasailing Accident that Claimed Lives of Two Women

Posted on October 10, 2009
Two North Carolina parasailing companies, NC Watersports and Ocean Isle Beach Water Sports, have filed a complaint in federal court seeking to either remove them from wrongful death liability or limit any potential civil compensation to a $100,000 cap for the parasailing deaths of two women...

Charlotte, North Carolina Injury Law Firm Offers Teen Drivers College Scholarships While Discouraging Drunk Driving

Posted on October 05, 2009
The Law Offices of Michael A. DeMayo, LLP is proud to offer 15 high school seniors the chance to win a $2,500 college scholarship--$37,500 in total. The winners will be selected based on several criteria, including their respective presentations on how to prevent minors from driving while drunk...

NHTSA Reports Nearly 6,000 Distracted Driving Deaths in 2008

Posted on September 30, 2009
It?s been official for some time now. Texting while driving is dangerous. So why do many people still do it? The risks that come with this bad driving habit are the focus of this week?s Distracted Driving Summit being held by the US Department of Transportation...

Did Gastonia Police Officer Commit North Carolina Police Brutality When He Fatally Shot Man with Knife?

Posted on September 22, 2009
The Gaston Gazette is reporting that Debbie Keeter is still waiting to see whether criminal charges will be filed against the Gastonia police detective who fatally shot her son in the head. Keeter says that less fatal measures could have been taken to apprehend her son, who was confused and in the middle of a stabbing brawl with men who allegedly threatened to kill him at the time...

North Carolina Child Death Fatality Rate was Lowest Ever in 2008

Posted on September 16, 2009
Good news for children 17 years of age and under in North Carolina. The death rate in the state for minors hit its lowest level yet in 2008, dropping 5% from the year before to 71 fatalities for every one hundred children. According to the North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force, 1,573 minors died in 2008...

1,433 People Died in 1,324 North Carolina Motor Vehicle Crashes in 2008, Says FARS

Posted on September 12, 2009
According to data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System, there were 37,261 US traffic deaths in 2008. 1,433 of those fatalities occurred during the 1,324 North Carolina motor vehicle accidents that happened last year. Nationally, there were: ? 50,430 motor vehicle crashes ? 25,428 motor vehicle occupant deaths ? 714 bicyclist deaths ? 1,045 child traffic fatalities (under age 13) ? 4,054 teen traffic deaths ? 4,268 of the fatalities were older seniors (ages 70 and over) ? 4...

NASCAR Driver Jeremy Mayfield Files North Carolina Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against His Stepmother

Posted on September 08, 2009
In North Carolina, Jeremy Mayfield, the suspended NASCAR Sprint Cup driver, is suing Lisa Mayfield, his stepmother, over his father?s wrongful death. Terry Mayfield passed away on September 5, 2007. Police and the medical examiner say that he committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest...

Lawsuit Accuses Toyota of Concealing Evidence in Hundreds of Rollover Accidents

Posted on September 03, 2009
A former attorney for Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. is suing his former employer for allegedly forcing him to withhold evidence from the victims of hundreds of rollover accidents. Dimitrios P. Biller says that not only did the world?s largest motor vehicle manufacturer make him conceal the evidence from plaintiffs who had sustained injuries or lost loved ones, but he claims that the company then made him resign two years ago...

Raleigh Pedestrian Accident Claims the Life of 6-Year-Old North Carolina Girl

Posted on August 25, 2009
Ashley E. Ramos-Hernandez, 6, died last Wednesday after she was struck by a sport utility vehicle during a Raleigh pedestrian accident. The deadly North Carolina traffic incident occurred during the afternoon close to the intersection of Hillock Drive and North Hills as the young girl was crossing the street...

North Carolina Wrongful Death Filed in Murder of Ashe County Man

Posted on August 20, 2009
The estate of Jimmy Blevins is suing his confessed murderer for North Carolina wrongful death. Blevins went missing in February 2007. When he disappeared, he left chicken cooking and his TV on. His grandmother would later say that she saw him ride away with Freddie Hammer...

Fayetteville, North Carolina Wrongful Death Lawsuit for Teen?s Drowning Accident in Drainage Ditch Can Continue, Says Judge

Posted on August 18, 2009
An appellate court judge in Fayetteville says that the North Carolina wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of 17-year-old Jesse Marquil King can go forward. King drowned in August 2005 after he fell into a flooded ditch during a rainstorm. The ditch?s pipe dragged the teenager under the water...

Vanceboro, North Carolina Car Accident Claims the Lives of Two Women and Injures Seven Passengers

Posted on August 15, 2009
Two women are dead and seven people injured following a deadly head-on North Carolina car crash in Vanceboro on Sunday night. The deceased, Loriann Bobotek, 47, and Christina Sonn, 35, are both from Maryland and were headed toward their respective vacation destinations...

North Carolina Truck Accidents are 23 Times More Likely to Happen When a Trucker is Texting

Posted on August 11, 2009
Although texting while driving will be banned in North Carolina beginning December 2009, that doesn?t mean that car drivers and truckers shouldn?t give up this dangerous form of distracted driving as soon as possible. As a matter of fact, a new Virginia Tech Transportation Institute study is reporting that truck drivers increase their crash risk by 23 times whenever they text...

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