A Mecklenburg County jury unanimously ruled in the plaintiffs’ favor, awarding $6 million dollars against a Charlotte development company which didn’t install a traffic light at an intersection where a fatal accident took place. The tragic accident occurred in April 2009. Two people, a 23 year-old Matthews man driving a Mitsubishi Eclipse and a 47…
Tort reform advocates support arbitrarily capping damages in medical malpractice lawsuits in a misguided effort to curb “frivolous” lawsuits. However, the tort reform platform is filled with gaps in logic and is based on an affront to the U.S. Constitution and our nation’s history. If you support a cap on damages, then you’re supporting the legislative…
After four days of deliberation, a jury in Charlotte, NC awarded the families of those who died in a terrible April 2009 accident $6 million from a development firm. The unanimous judgment held Crescent Resources partially liable for the deadly accident that claimed three people’s lives, including a young Winthrop University professor and her two-year…
Police in Charlotte, NC say that one person is dead after an accident occurred this past weekend when a 15-year-old driver struck a utility pole. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police say that a 17-year-old friend of the driver was pronounced dead just after 4 a.m. at Carolinas Medical Center. Police say that the 1992 Honda Civic driven by…
Two teen-agers were killed in two separate accidents in the early morning hours of Sunday, May 12th in North Charlotte. The first wreck occurred on NC 29 near the Cabarrus County line around 12:30 a.m. A fifteen year-old male was driving a 1992 Honda Civic southbound, on NC 29 (North Tryon Street). Police say he…