Posts tagged wrong

• Alcohol Sale to Underage Drunk Driver Nets Convenience Store $716.5M Penalty

  Richard N. (Rick) Shapiro | May 31, 2012 8:06 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  A civil trial jury in Hillsboro County, Florida (FL) has ordered the owner of a convenience store that sold alcohol to a teen who later in the day caused a drunk driving accident that killed a...

• Man Awarded $200 Million in the Nursing Home Death of His Mother

  Mark Favaloro | March 13, 2012 8:25 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  In the fall of 2004, a 92-year-old nursing home resident pushed herself in her wheelchair through a door leading to a stairwell. She fell in the wheelchair down the flight of stairs and laid...

• Dram Shop Laws Can Make Bars and Restaurants Liable for Drunk Driving Car Accidents

  Richard N. (Rick) Shapiro | March 05, 2012 11:47 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Currently, 43 of the 50 U.S. states have so-called dram shop laws that make it possible to hold an establishment liable if it sells an intoxicated patron alcohol and the patron subsequently...

• Study: New Teen North Carolina Drivers More Likely to Crash

  Richard N. (Rick) Shapiro | October 25, 2011 9:07 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  As experienced North Carolina accident injury attorneys, my colleagues and I have known for some time that inexperience is the cause of wrecks. The extent to which this is true was recently made...

• A Story Well Told Nearly Doubles Settlement Offer

  Michael Lewis | September 29, 2011 10:27 AM | 1 CommentWinston-Salem, NC Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  After a video documentary chronicles an elderly widower’s post-crash life, offer climbs close to $1 million. Along a stretch of highway in Western North Carolina, two old soul mates sat...

• Medical Malpractice Caps for Emergency Room Errors Adopted in North Carolina

  Jim Lewis | July 19, 2011 9:20 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A few weeks ago on this site, my Carolina medical malpractice plaintiff's attorney colleague Rick Shapiro applauded the governor's veto of a North Carolina bill to limit noneconomic monetary damage...

• Wrong-Way Driver Causes Fatal Crash in Nash County, NC

  Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton | July 06, 2011 4:03 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A wrong-way accident has claimed two lives in Nash County, North Carolina, the Virginian-Pilot reports. A driver heading the wrong way on U.S. 64 crashed into an oncoming vehicle. The driver and a...

• North Carolina Bill to Cap Medical Malpractice Damage Awards Defeated, for Now

  Richard N. (Rick) Shapiro | June 26, 2011 1:48 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A misguided effort to control health care costs in North Carolina by making it more difficult for victims of medical malpractice and surgical errors to receive adequate and fair compensation for...

• Hospital Negligence—More Than We Thought

  James T. Crouse | April 08, 2011 6:27 PM | 2 CommentsDurham, NC Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  In a previous post, I commented on the fact that most acts of medical negligence were never reported, let alone litigated. I also decried the fact that legislators were limiting the rights of the...

• Tangled web of underage drinking and DWI leaves two dead

  Lawrence Egerton | March 28, 2011 5:21 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A tragic high-speed crash in Greensboro illustrates several of the liabilities that can arise from underage drinking and driving while impaired. Marcial Aragon Colmillo and Juan Carlos Cortes were...