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Preventing North Carolina Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect: State?s New Rating System is Supposed to Help Families Choose Best Assisted Living Facility

Posted on August 06, 2009
North Carolina has unveiled a new nursing home rating system to help families decide which assisted living facility they should admit their elderly or sick loved one to. The new system uses 0 ? 4 stars to rate the quality of care provided at each home...

Parents File North Carolina Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Lenoir-Rhyne University and Theta Chi Fraternity

Posted on August 04, 2009
The parents of a 19-year-old boy who died during a fraternity event while attending Lenoir-Rhyne University is suing the school and the Theta Chi Fraternity for his wrongful death. Harrison Kowiak died on November 18, 2008. Kowiak was taking part in bulldogging, a game that involves pledges retrieving rocks in a dark field while fraternity members tackle them...

Charlotte, North Carolina Dog Attack Injures 9-Year-Old Girl

Posted on July 27, 2009
A 9-year-old girl was rushed to the hospital on Thursday after the neighbor?s pit bull attacked her. The Charlotte, North Carolina dog mauling incident happened in the girl?s own home after a neighbor brought the pet over so her family could consider whether to buy it...

Chapel Hill Daycare Operator Sued for Infant?s Traumatic Brain Injury

Posted on July 22, 2009
In Durham County, the parents of Lucas Lear are suing Chapel Hill daycare operator Cheryl McAdoo Alston for the 7-month-old's permanent traumatic brain injury. The North Carolina injuries to minor complaint accuses Alston of injuring the boy, who was attending her Cheryl's Infant and Toddler Preschool, and neglecting to get him medical care in a timely manner after she allegedly hurt him...

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North Carolina Lawmakers Considers Adding ?Comparative Fault? to State?s Personal Injury Laws

Posted on July 13, 2009
A new North Carolina bill has made its way to the state?s Senate. The legislation, which passed 72-43 in the House, would ask juries and judges to determine how much a North Carolina personal injury should be award based on the premise of ?comparative fault...

Hospital Malpractice?: Medicare Analysis Reports that Too Many People Die Unnecessarily at US Hospitals

Posted on July 09, 2009
According to a U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services analysis, too many people die unnecessarily at US hospitals. Researchers also say that many hospitals seem to serve as revolving doors for patients, with a number of patients ending up back in the hospital within 30 days...

North Carolina Fireworks Explosion Kills Four People Killed on July 4

Posted on July 06, 2009
Four people are dead from injuries they sustained on July 4 in Ocracoke when a truck filled with fireworks exploded. The four victims were workers who were preparing for an Outer Banks celebration for the 4th of July. According to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives investigators, the fireworks blast was an accident that occurred while the fireworks show was being set up...

Injured Workers Sue Hickory Company Sued for North Carolina Personal Injuries From Con Agra Slim Jim Natural Gas Blast

Posted on July 02, 2009
Energy Systems Analysts, a water heater maker company in Hickory, is one defendant in the North Carolina personal injury lawsuit filed by two people who were injured in the June 9 blast at a Con Agra Slim Jim plant in Garner. 300 people were working at the plant when the deadly work explosion occurred...

North Carolina Wrongful Death Lawsuit Accuses Harnett County Nursing Home of Negligence After 85-Year-Old Wanders Away and Falls into Ravine

Posted on June 29, 2009
The daughter of Carrie ?Christine? Evans is suing a North Carolina nursing home for her mother's wrongful death. Serita Cheryl Evans is accusing Millicent Boutchway Shylon, the owner of Primrose Retirement Villa IV, of nursing home negligence leading to Carrie Evans's fatal fall accident earlier this year...

Decreasing the Number of North Carolina Car Accidents: State Bans Text Messaging While Driving

Posted on June 22, 2009
Beginning December 1, North Carolina drivers will no longer be allowed to text message or e-mail while driving. The statewide ban was announced on Friday, after Governor Beverly Perdue signed the new law. The ban on text messaging will hopefully decrease the number of North Carolina car accidents caused by this modern, bad habit...

North Carolina Premises Liability: Two Recent Child Drowning Accidents in Hotels Claim Lives

Posted on June 22, 2009
With almost 300 kids under age 5 drowning in pools and spas every year, it is important that spa owners and managers implement all the necessary safety precautions to prevent more North Carolina child drowning injuries and deaths from happening. Safety initiatives that pool and spa owners and supervisors can take: ? Make sure that the pool is fenced in and that the barricade is high enough to prevent children from being able to climb over or open the gate without adult supervision...

Products Liability: Bausch & Lomb Pays Over $250 Million to 600 Plaintiffs for Eye Fungus Injuries

Posted on June 16, 2009
In the last year, optical products company Bausch & Lomb has settled almost 600 products liability lawsuits related to its ReNu MoistureLoc multi-purpose contact lense solution. Dozens of other individual personal injury complaints are still pending. Over 700 contact lenses users in the US and Asia claim that they suffered from Fusarium keratitis because they used the solution, which was pulled off US store shelves in April 2006...

The Number of North Carolina Elder Abuse and Neglect Complaints is Rising, Say State Officials

Posted on June 08, 2009
North Carolina officials are reporting an increase in complaints of possible elder abuse and neglect incidents, with an approximately 20% increase in the the number of requests made between ?06 ??07 and ?07-?08 to state adult-protection officers asking that they further investigate the allegations...

North Carolina Child Sex Abuse Lawsuit Names Two Priests as the Perpetrators

Posted on June 03, 2009
In Buncombe County Superior Court, a man has filed a North Carolina child sex abuse lawsuit seeking damages for the physical and emotional abuse he says he allegedly suffered as a teenager at the hands of two priests at the Basilica of St. Lawrence in Asheville...

North Carolina Car Accidents: Over-Correcting is A Common Cause of Auto Crashes

Posted on June 01, 2009
Over-correcting when driving is a common cause of North Carolina car accidents. A driver ends up off the road, overreacts to the situation, and over-corrects in an attempt to avoid causing a motor vehicle crash. Unfortunately, what can end up happening is that by quickly turning the steering wheel to prevent an accident from happening, a single-vehicle rollover or a collision with another motor vehicle can result...

North Carolina Motor Vehicle Crashes: State Highway Patrol Reports 9 Traffic Deaths Over Memorial Day Weekend

Posted on May 28, 2009
According to preliminary statistics from the N.C. Highway Patrol, nine people were killed in North Carolina motor vehicle accidents over the Memorial Day weekend. That is the same amount of people that died over last year?s 3-day holiday period when 534 motor vehicle riders were injured...

After Decrease in North Carolina Motorcycle Deaths in 2008, State Transportation Officials Hope to Continue Rider Fatality Decline in 2009 with Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month

Posted on May 24, 2009
North Carolina Governor Perdue is calling the month of May Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month. His proclamation is part of a nationwide campaign to remind motorists and other drivers that they share the roads with each other and they must do so safely...

The Law Offices of Michael A DeMayo LLP, A North Carolina Personal Injury Law Firm, Supports the Fight Against Drunk Driving and Helps to Build Habitat for Humanity Homes

Posted on May 19, 2009
This month, The Law Offices of Michael A DeMayo participated in two community service events. The first event was Walk Like MADD, which is hosted by Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Charlotte Personal Injury Attorney Michael A DeMayo served as the honorary chair for the annual 5k walk, which took place on May 2...

North Carolina Bill Would Cap Workers? Compensation Benefits After Retirement

Posted on May 16, 2009
In North Carolina, the House is considering a bill that would cap workers? compensation payments for senior workers. The cap would go into effect less than six years (that?s 300 weeks) after a worker turns 65 or becomes eligible to receive Social Security retirement benefits...

Man that Caused North Carolina Car Crash that Killed Siblings May Have Been Having Psychiatric Breakdown

Posted on May 12, 2009
In Wake County, visiting Durham Superior Court Judge Ronald Stephens has decided to continue the hearing in the criminal case of driver Victoriano T. Layon. The 38-year-old Selma man is ready to plead guilty to two counts of involuntary manslaughter in the 2008 North Carolina car accident deaths of siblings Wanda Gail Altman, 53, and Daris Wayne Hancock, 49...

North Carolina Products Liability: Tougher Roof Strength Standards Will Provide Better Rollover Crash Protection, Says US Department of Transportation

Posted on May 06, 2009
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is doubling its roof strength requirement for light vehicles weighing up to 6,000 pounds and introducing an actual requirement for vehicles weighting 6,000 to 10,000 pounds. According to US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, these tougher standards will offer passengers greater protection during rollover accidents...

Family of North Carolina Woman Who Drowned in Car Files South Carolina Wrongful Death Lawsuit

Posted on April 28, 2009
The family of a 77-year-old North Carolina woman who died when she drowned in her car is suing three companies for her wrongful death. In mid-October 2008, Tecora Young left a birthday party at a South Carolina recreational facility and then disappeared...

Holly Springs Family Files First North Carolina Chinese Drywall Lawsuit

Posted on April 22, 2009
The first North Carolina defective Chinese drywall lawsuit has been filed. The plaintiffs are from Holly Springs and the complaint is against builder Stafford Custom Homes. Their lawsuit blames the corroding metals and putrid smell in their home on the toxic material in the walls of their residence that they say made them sick...

North Carolina Bill Banning Text Messaging While Driving Now Goes to Senate

Posted on April 18, 2009
Now that the North Carolina House of Representatives has made it overwhelmingly clear?by a 104 to 5 vote?that texting and emailing while driving should be banned, the bill now heads to the state Senate and then Governor Bev Perdue. If the bill becomes law, anyone caught violating the ban would b fined $100 plus court expenses...

North Carolina Highway Patrol Begins Weeklong Crackdown on Overweight Commercial Trucks

Posted on April 13, 2009
Today marks the beginning of the North Carolina Highway Patrol?s weeklong crackdown on overweight commercial trucks in a number of counties, including Mecklenburg County, Wake County, Robeson County, Guilford County, and Buncombe County. Troopers will be targeting trucks whose weight exceeds what is allowed under federal law, as well as trucks that purposely take alternate routes to avoid weighing stations...

North Carolina Traffic Fatalities Dropped 17% in 2008

Posted on April 07, 2009
According to the North Carolina Transportation Department, the number of people that died in motor vehicle accidents throughout the state in 2008 compared to 2007 decreased by 18%. State transportation officials say there were 1,406 traffic deaths last year, compared to 1,705 the year prior...

New Hanover County to Pay Workers? Compensation Death Benefits to the Family of North Carolina Employee Who Committed Suicide After Becoming the Victim of Assault

Posted on April 03, 2009
In North Carolina, the family of Nancy Hayes will receive workers? compensation death benefits for her 2004 suicide. Hayes, who was employed at the New Hanover County Department of Social Services Food Stamps division, overdosed on prescription pain medication after an unknown assailant attacked her at work...

North Carolina Nursing Home Rampage Leaves Seven Patients and One Nurse Dead and A Visitor and Police Officer with Injuries

Posted on March 31, 2009
In Carthage, North Carolina, seven nursing home residents are dead following a mass shooting at the Pinelake Health and Rehab Center. According to police, an armed man entered the long-term care facility and began shooting at people. The suspect, Robert Stewart, is the estranged husband of a nursing assistant who works at the North Carolina nursing home, and police believe he may have been targeting her...

North Carolina Pediatrician Accused of Child Sex Abuse Agrees to Stop Practicing Medicine Forever

Posted on March 23, 2009
A prominent North Carolina pediatrician accused of child sexual abuse has signed a consent order signaling his agreement to stop practicing medicine in this state or anywhere else. The North Carolina medical board approved the consent order against Dr...

Family Files $50 Million Personal Injury Lawsuit Against Chimp Owner for Mauling Incident

Posted on March 18, 2009
A 55-year-old woman remains in the hospital in critical condition after a friend?s pet chimpanzee attacked her. Charla Nash?s nose, hands, eyelids, and lips were ripped off and a number of her facial bones were crushed during the 12-minute chimp attack that took place in February 2009...

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