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NC Business Court Decision says Email “Conflicts out” Lawyer NC Lawyers Weekly is reporting a recent business court decision by Judge Tennille in the matter ofChemcraft Holdings Corporation v. Shayba (North Carolina Lawyers Weekly No. 06-15-1115, 10 pages) where the Judge disqualified counsel for a prty due to a conflict of interest arising out of…

Sex Offenders Must Register The North Carolina Sex Offender and Public Protection Registry was established in January 1996 due to the General Assembly’s enactment of Article 27A of Chapter 14 of the North Carolina General Statutes (NCGS 14-208.5). This law requires a person who is a resident of North Carolina and who has a reportable…

What is a Medicare Set Aside (MSA)? In 2001 Medicare (CMS) announced that it would begin to exercise the Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) statute. The concept of the law is that Medicare is a “secondary payer” when any other form of insurance exists to pay claims. Before 2001, that meant traditional health insurance, but starting…

The North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled today that a plaintiff is not entitled to recover punitive damages from an Estate of a tortfeasor. In the matter of Harrell v. Estate of Perry, the COA addressed an appeal from a Superior Court where the Superior Court had ruled that pursuant to NC Rule of…

My friend Mike Daisley, a great lawyer in Charlotte, NC with Wells, Daisley & Rabon, P.A., passed on this story to me today. In addition to being a trial lawyer, Mike is also a radio host on a local Charlotte station, WBT News Talk Radio. Not a day goes by that I don’t read or…

I stumbled across an old post today on the website of the National Association to Protect Children, which bills itself as “America’s First Political Lobby to Protect Children.” The Association is based out of Asheville, my old stomping grounds. The author of the article, Grier Weeks, details the long path that a NC bill to…

I get a lot of questions from friends and clients about insurance points. In NC, when you get in a car wreck, or receive a speeding ticket, you get license points AND insurance points. Insurance Points = $$$$ Insurance points determine the increase in the cost of your insurance. For example, if you pay a…

I will be teaching a seminar at the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers this Friday on the implications of Ahlborn on Medicaid Third Party reimbursement. I will also talk about the implications of the recent Ezell case in NC. The Seminar is being “webcast” so if you can’t come to Raleigh, you will be…

Before I set up my firm in Raleigh, I practiced in the western part of North Carolina and lived in Hendersonville, south of Asheville. I still maintain an office there as part of an “of counsel” relationship with my old law partners. I have family there as well whom I particularly enjoy visting when it…

I’m in the process of having one of my friends from RTP design and build me a custom computer to handle my office needs. (That’s Research Triangle Park for those of you out of state. Also known as the place that has driven housing prices “inside the beltline” through the roof over the last decade…