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• Jury Service -- It’s A Privilege

  Brent Adams | February 17, 2009 9:05 AM | 1 CommentFayetteville, NC

  Many people dread being called to serve as a juror. In most counties in North Carolina jury service requires at least a good part of a week, because even if the citizen is not called to sit on a...

• Social Security Disability Insurance Benefits - You Paid For Them

  Brent Adams | February 07, 2009 9:55 AM | 1 CommentFayetteville, NC

  Most United States taxpayers are the beneficiary of a disability insurance policy. This “policy” provides for monthly payments in the event that a wage earner becomes unable to...

• Warning: Contrast Dye Used In MRI Test Can Be Dangerous

  Brent Adams | October 21, 2008 11:34 PM | 1 CommentFayetteville, NC

  Magnetic Resonance Imaging tests, MRIs and Magnetic Resonance Angiography, and MRAs are commonly used by physicians to study and diagnose numerous conditions of the body. Contrast material...

• Recent North Carolina Industrial Commission Decision Clarifies Specific Traumatic Incident Under Workers' Compensation Laws

  Robin Martinek | September 15, 2008 10:05 AM | 1 CommentFayetteville, NC

  In a recent decision by the Full Commission, the Commission recognized that an employee suffered a specific traumatic incident resulting in injury to her back despite the fact that the pain did not...

• Pre-Employment Injuries May Come Back to Haunt Work Injury Victims

  Robin Martinek | August 15, 2008 4:40 PM | 1 CommentFayetteville, NC

  In a recent case before the North Carolina Court of Appeals, a Judge Jackson and Judge Hunter found that an employee's undisclosed medical condition increased his risk of a back injury combined with...

• POLICE MAY BE LIABLE FOR PUNITIVE DAMAGES FOR NEGLIGENCE

  Brent Adams | May 18, 2008 5:00 AM | 1 CommentFayetteville, NC

  The North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled that the mother of a 17-year-old daughter murdered by the mother’s husband could pursue a punitive damages claim against police officers for failure to make an arrest and failure to warn the mother that her husband was still on the loose.

• If you have purchased a workers compensation "Ghost" insurance policy, you may be entitled to a refund

  Brent Adams | May 09, 2008 10:11 AM | 1 CommentFayetteville, NC

  If you were forced by a general contractor for an employer to buy a workers' compensation insurance policy and if you never had any employees during the time, the policy was enforced, you may very well be entitled to a refund of all the premiums you've paid for any such policies.

• Bad Faith Insurance Verdict Against Fireman's Fund

  Brent Adams | July 28, 2007 1:03 AM | 1 CommentFayetteville, NC

  The Supreme Court of the State of Washington, on July 26, 2007 upheld a jury verdict of $750,000 against Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. and it's subsidary National Surety Co. for bad faith insurance practices. Fireman's refused to defend a lawsuit against Dr. Robert C. Woo, a dentist who was sued by a former enployee Tina Alberts who had also been his dental patient. The suit against Woo...

• College Sued For Alcohol Related Death Of Student

  Brent Adams | August 23, 2009 10:12 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  In Utah, there has been a recent death that has been related to drinking on a college campus. In this event the family of the young college student is actually suing the school for wrongful...

• Two Motorcyclists Killed When Driver Crosses Center Line

  Brent Adams | August 22, 2009 10:01 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  A couple, traveling through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park became victims in a fatal accident. The victims have been identified in the crash as a couple who were traveling from South...