Justice for Victims in Raleigh: Car, Truck & Motorcycle Accidents and Sexual Abuse Claims Blog

I keep reading about the ever increasing number of reported cases of female teachers have sex with their male (and female) students. Everyone seems shocked by that fact, and I suppose that normally when one thinks of inappropriate teacher student relationships, they think of creepy male teachers and their female students. The website World Net…

Ok, I was driving in the mountains on the Fourth of July with my family. We had just come from Brevard, on our way to Hendersonville where I also have an office space. We look ahead and see this giant truck. I start laughing after a few seconds. Too funny!!! Let’s see if you get…

Hurray!!! The NC Teachers & State Employees Lien has moved one step closer to being revised to allow for attorney fees and to limit the scope of the lien. There bill came out of the Senate technical corrections committee yesterday and can be found here. Now we have to wait for the house to either…

NC Health Choice (NCHC)is a state funded health insurance program for children whose parents make too much money to qualify for Medicaid, but not enough money to afford traditional health insurance. NCHC is administered by the same folks that run the NC Teachers’ and Employees Health Plan, but NCHC does not get a lien under…

The North Carolina Teachers’ and Employees Comprehensive Major Medical Health Plan was granted a statutory lien by the NC General Assembly in July of 2004. In my writings about this lien, I’ve called it the “Super Lien” because the language in the statute gives the State Employee Health Plan (SEHP) a lien against 100% of…

Dear Lawyer: We all know that you worked really hard on this case. You stayed up late, you lost weekends, you “researched” your issues, your prepared your arguments and theories. But you lost. Trying to figure out why a jury “went wrong” is about the same as figuring out who shot Kennedy. Everyone has a…

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I get a lot of phone calls from people that are “upside down” on their car loans after their vehicle gets destroyed or “totaled” in a wreck. Being “upside down” means that the money owed on the car loan is more that what the car is worth (or at least what the insurance company is…

Following a legal trend from around the nation, the North Carolina Senate has finalized legislation to ban teenagers from operating cars while talking on cell phones. Starting December 1, 2006, teenagers may be fined $25 and get a six month extension of their “learner’s permit” if they are caught driving and talking. Seems like a…

Under the North Carolina wrongful death statute, NCGS 28A-18, medical providers that have helped treat a person who then dies can only recover a maximum of $4,500 from a wrongful death settlement. Unfortunately, that cap does not apply to Medicaid’s lien if they have paid over $4,500 in medical bills. That’s an amazingly low number…