Attorney Matthew R. Arnold answering the question: “What should I do if I have been injured by another party but I can’t afford a lawyer?” A terrible charter bus accident in Virginia left one person dead and multiple people injured, including a couple from North Carolina. Authorities in Norfolk, VA…
Attorney Matthew R. Arnold answering the question: “What should I do if I have been injured by another party but I can’t afford a lawyer?” Police investigators with the Asheville Police Department have announced that a woman from Candler, NC died and several others were injured due to distracted driving.…
Attorney Matthew R. Arnold answering the question: “I have been injured on another person’s property. What should I do now?” The Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued a statement regarding the tragic explosion at a Statesville, NC flour mill that took place over the weekend. One worker at…
Attorney Matthew R. Arnold answering the question: “What should I do if I have been injured by another party but I can’t afford a lawyer?” In a horrifying bit of news, a pilot in Missouri was found to be the first to have been involved in a texting while flying…
Attorney Matthew R. Arnold answering the question: “I have been injured on another person’s property. What should I do now?” A 22-year-old mechanic from Lexington, NC was killed last week after a tractor-trailer fell on top of him while working at JRJ Trucking in Thomasville. According to Davidson County Emergency…
Attorney Matthew R. Arnold answering the question: “I have been injured on another person’s property. What should I do now?” Chicken processing plants are big business across the southern U.S., especially here in North Carolina where thousands of workers are employed in poultry plants. Though the jobs can be important…
A recent Supreme Court decision concerning a disabled North Carolina girl was recently handed down. The case, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. E.M.A., resulted in a 6-3 ruling that struck down a law allowing North Carolina officials to seize one-third of medical malpractice settlements won by…
According to a recent article by WBTV, the family of a child who was hospitalized due to an E. coli outbreak has now filed suit against the North Carolina State Fair. We discussed the case late last year and since that time the family of the 3-year-old boy gathered important…
A recent report issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention named an industry popular in North Carolina the most dangerous occupation in the country. The report, part of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality assessment, said that the commercial fishing industry has the highest occupational fatality rate in…
Earlier this year the North Carolina Court of Appeals overturned a $450,000 jury award to a former Goodyear Tire employee for negligent infliction of emotional distress. The Court of Appeals said that the trial court lacked subject matter jurisdiction to hear the case. The ruling demonstrates just how difficult it…