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 ...

On June 18, 2021, Governor Roy Cooper signed Senate Bill 255 into law. The law contains two significant changes to the legal procedures in medical malpractice actions in North Carolina.

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 ...

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 ...

North Carolina rules of professional conduct say that a lawyer should “explain the matter to the extent reasonably necessary to permit a client to make an informed decision” about representation.

In a stunning defeat for Republican legislators, North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue (D- N.C.) vetoed Senate Bill 33, a medical malpractice reform bill that would have capped noneconomic damages at ...

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.