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 ...

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 ...

C HARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - The Charlotte community was this week mourning the loss of James E. “Fergie” Ferguson II -- a civil ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The North Carolina Medical Board has proposed posting all malpractice payments going back seven years as part of a new effort to broaden the kind of information patients can see about the doctors ...