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We’ve had a great decision published by our North Carolina Court of Appeals which finally clarifies the issue of prejudgment interest on Underinsured and Uninsured Motorist Arbitrations in North Carolina. The gist of the problem was that the while the Uniform Arbitration Act provides that arbitration Awards can be reduced to judgments and filed as…

Looks like Allstate is willing to pay $2.4 Million dollars to hide their claims practices: Allstate won’t produce records despite $25,000-a-day fineBy JOE LAMBEThe Kansas City Star Allstate Insurance Co. lawyers made this clear Tuesday to a Jackson County judge: They will not produce key records for public view no matter how much he fines…

N.C. COURT OF APPEALS Where the right to intrastate travel is a “right of function,” the right to enter public parks is not encompassed by either the fundamental right of travel or the right to intrastate travel. We affirm the trial court order upholding the defendant-town’s ordinance, which prohibits registered sex offenders from knowingly entering…

I had a great time speaking to the New Lawyers at the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers today. I promised to post the supporting materials and you can download the Personal injury Checklist here. Good luck to all of you. If you need to ask any questions, just email me though my website. _____________________…

For those of you who are like me and get confused calculating birthdays and age, I’ve found a nifty little age calculator. I’m always second guessing myself on when a minor becomes an adult and how that figures into Statute Of Limitations. In NC, a minor’s statute of limitations does not begin until their 18th…

Now that the legal world is moving toward a “paperless” approach to things, I get some questions about the best ways to convert documents into PDF files. Most states moving to “paperless filing” require documents to be submitted in PDF format. Below are a few suggestions on ways to do this: Easiest: Buy Adobe Acrobat…

I read an interesting newspaper article over the weekend by Robert Pear for the New York Times News Service.  Read the article here.  Another good version of the article can be read here. The article says that the Bush administration “will no longer pay the extra costs of treating preventable errors, injuries and infections that…

A friend forwarded me a great article by a columnist who writes for a Philadelphia newspaper. It exposes some of the horrible practices that I’ve noticed over the years by one of America’s largest insurers, Allstate. Some of Allstate’s practices are so extreme that I’ve had Allstate adjuster say to me “I know this case…

The WorkPlaceProf Blog has posted an interesting case which has some very minor posisbilities of being a “nose under the tent” in NC to avoid ERISA liens. Basically, the case cited from the US Supreme Court has allowed a state to trump ERISA in order to “take” money away from a retirement plan for a…