In 2011, the North Carolina General Assembly capped the recoverable amount of non-economic damages at $500,000, indexed to increase with inflation — although there are exceptions for cases ...

Maybe you've wondered whether a claim for legal malpractice can be assigned. Maybe you haven't. But yesterday, the North Carolina Court of Appeals answered that question. In Revolutionary Concepts ...

At the height of the pandemic, the North Carolina General Assembly passed an immunity law meant to protect frontline health workers from COVID-related medical malpractice lawsuits.

A North Carolina limit on legal awards in malpractice cases fixed a non-existent problem and left many victims of ... In years prior to the law’s passage, malpractice cases averaged 477 ...

Of the people who’ve contacted state legislators to oppose overhauling North Carolina’s medical malpractice laws, John Faulkner is unique. He’s a doctor. A 2002 operating room explosion ...

A North Carolina family catastrophe has landed at the Supreme Court, with potentially far-reaching consequences for how states handle medical malpractice settlements. In a case that’s both ...

The North Carolina House of Representatives has voted in favor of capping medical malpractice damages, overriding Gov. Beverly Perdue (D) earlier decision to veto the bill in June. The new law ...

Prime Communications alleges that Ragsdale Liggett agreed to use "best efforts" to represent it for free in a federal suit, but says the firm ended up devoting "little time and attention" to the work.

The North Carolina Medical Board wants to post doctors’ malpractice information on its Web site, but the state’s private physicians association says the information could be misleading.