Rental and lease agreements between businesses are a common fact of business life, both in North Carolina and throughout the country. They often are the subject of business litigation arising from differing interpretations of the contractual terms. Often a lessee...
Month: December 2014
Damages for breach of contract will vary with the facts
When a business in North Carolina is in a contractual relationship with a person or another business, it relies on getting a certain return from the transaction. The parties can memorialize the agreement by reducing it to a writing and sometimes will even state their...
Jury awards $16.1 million breach of contract verdict
Nuclear engineering and power companies are as prone as others to become embroiled in extensive business disputes. In one recent case, two such companies went to trial over accusations of breach of contract and theft of proprietary information. The claims included the...
Breach of contract suit between city and contractor settled
Members of North Carolina's business community are most likely aware that a contract is a legally binding agreement between at least two parties. Each party agrees to provide some sort of consideration to the other. When one party believes the other has failed to...
Aborted hotel tower leads to massive business litigation
What happens when a proposed 47-story hotel tower is stopped midway through construction and declared by safety inspectors to be unfit to continue? Whether it is in North Carolina or another state, legal conflicts and business litigation between many different parties...
Man charged in connection with fatal street-racing accident
A car accident in North Carolina resulted in the deaths of two people and sent one person to the hospital on Nov. 22. Police charged a 19-year-old Kernersville man with two counts of involuntary manslaughter and one count of pre-arranged racing in connection with the...
Certain disorders still being misdiagnosed by doctors
Many North Carolina patients know that a misdiagnosis could result in serious damages or even death. However, researchers and doctors are attempting to reduce the rate of misdiagnoses by analyzing research from autopsies, physician-reported errors and error types....
Key factors guide choice of outside business litigation counsel
Most businesses in North Carolina do not have in-house litigation counsel. If there is an in-house legal department, it is usually comprised of corporate lawyers who handle a variety of transactional matters for the company. When a company faces a substantially...
VA ruled in breach of contract over new hospital construction
How does a major government agency sign a contract for $600,000 with a private contractor for a medical center that it knows will probably cost $1 billion? When it's the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs that is involved, it may just be standard operating procedure....
North Carolina crash leaves woman dead
The North Carolina Highway Patrol has confirmed the death of a 50-year-old woman in a collision between a car and a moped on Dec. 4. The deceased woman was the passenger on a moped driven by her 62-year-old companion. He suffered serious injuries in the crash and has...