InjuryBoard Raleigh Archives

• Another Tort Reform Phony Cashes In

  Brent Adams | July 28, 2008 11:07 PM | 4 Comments
  Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)

  Prominent tort reform advocate cashes in to the very civil justice system he condemns. Judge Robert Bork sues the Yale Club for failing to provide hand rails. Asks for a million dollars in compensatory damages and for punitive damages.

• North Carolina Jury Returns Low Verdict For Neck Injury

  Brent Adams | July 06, 2008 10:22 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A Dobson County jury returned a verdict of $45,000.00 in favor of a victim of a rear-end collision who sustained a neck injury. As a result of neck injury which was caused by the collision the claimant’s doctors recommended a cervical fusion of the neck. The surgical fusion would have involved joining together the C5-C6 cervical discs so that there would be no movement between the two discs. Both an orthopedic spine specialist and a neurosurgeon recommended this surgery.