Call Us 919-240-4054A federal judge is refusing to sign off on a $760 million settlement for retired football players suffering from traumatic brain injuries caused by concussions because she believes the amount is not adequate to compensate the thousands of retired athletes and their families who are entitled to the money. The settlement was first negotiated last […]
Compensable Injury
Daycare pays parents of child with brain injury $1 million
A North Carolina daycare center was forced to pay $1 million dollars to the family of a child who suffered a severe brain injury as the result of negligence of one of the daycare’s employees. The employee turned her attention away from the infant for one or two minutes and found the child unresponsive. The daycare […]
Lenoir woman wins $1 million pre-suit
A woman severely injured when a tractor trailer hit her car received a $1 million dollar settlement from the truck’s insurance company, according to court documents. Melanie Moll was driving to pick up her son from school in Lenoir County when a truck.that was attempting to pass her in a no-passing zone t-boned her vehicle […]
Injured workers must prove what caused their injury
An injured worker who can’t prove what exactly caused the injury is not entitled to benefits, according to a recent ruling issued by the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Sonya Chaffins, a former employee of Tar Heel Capital Corporation, filed for workers’ compensation after an injury to her shoulder on the job in 2010. Chaffins had suffered a […]
Jet ski amputee wins $5.75 million settlement
A man who lost his leg after a 2007 jet ski crash won a multimillion-dollar settlement last month after the insurance company refused to settle for $500,000. The crash occurred on Lake Norman when Howard Hazlett and Frederick Gibb were operating jet skis borrowed from their acquaintance, Royce Syracuse. Gibb’s jet ski collided with Hazlett’s, […]
Texas TBI sufferer wins suit against employer
A Texas man who suffered traumatic brain injury from an on-the-job fall won about $5.53 million dollars after suing his former employer, West Star Transportation, for negligence. Charles Robison, 52, was standing on top of an overloaded flatbed truck when he fell approximately 15 feet to the concrete below. In addition to fractures to his […]