Miscellaneous

• Household Pests and Workplace Injuries

  Robin Martinek | April 04, 2007 4:25 PM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  Lately I have seen a number of clients come to our offices with serious injuries that most likely occurred at their workplace. But because of the state of the law in North Carolina, we were forced to turn them away. I imagine hundreds of employees in North Carolina are exposed to the dangers of poisonous insects, spiders and other creatures at their workplace, and these are very real dangers...

• Baycol Settlement Reached with 30 States

  Brent Adams | March 23, 2007 3:41 PM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  Bayer Corp, the manufacturer of Baycol, has agreed to pay North Carolina and twenty-nine other states 8 million dollars in settlement of a claim alleging that Bayer failed to adequately warn consumers about the risk of taking Baycol, a cholesterol-reducing drug.Bayer voluntarily withdrew Baycol from the market in August 2001. Baycol, which was first introduced in the United States in February...

• Louisiana Tobacco Verdict Cut in Half

  Brent Adams | March 23, 2007 2:58 PM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  In 2004, Louisiana jurors held that tobacco manufacturers had conspired to keep the truth about the hazards of tobacco from the Louisiana public. For this conspiracy, the jury set the damages at 591 million dollars.That verdict has now been cut to less than half by a Louisiana appeals court.The recovery from the judgment was to be used for smoking cessation programs. The appellate court's...

• Jury Returns $400,000.00 Funeral Home Negligence Verdict

  Staff Writer | March 15, 2007 6:07 PM | 1 CommentRaleigh, NC

  A New Hanover County jury returned a verdict totaling $400,000.00 against a Wilmington, North Carolina funeral home for negligently mishandling the body of the claimant's 30-year-old son. The plaintiff, Alexandra Klinger, was a devout follower of the Jewish faith. Her deceased son, Israel, was a follower of the Christian Orthodox faith. The Jewish and Orthodox faiths have similar requirements...

• Disclaimer

  Staff Writer | January 15, 2007 5:34 PM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

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