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Durham Homeowners May Be Displaced by New Highway
According to an article on WRAL.com, North Carolina is moving ahead with plans to build a long-awaited highway known as the East End Connector…and it will be built right on top of 150 parcels of land,...
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Meningitis from Steroid Injections
It’s one of the worst kinds of medical stories: Contaminated products causing serious illness and deaths. According to an article on WRAL.com, as many as 13,000 people received injections of a steroid...
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Complications in the Meningitis Outbreak
photo by Barry Chin/Boston Globe Less than two weeks ago, we told you about the meningitis outbreak from spinal steroid injections. At that time, 105 people had developed meningitis, and 9 had died....
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Help Us Collect for the “Dare To Care” Food Drive
This year, we are once again participating in the North Carolina Advocates for Justice (NCAJ) “Dare to Care: Feed Those in Need” Food Drive! Would you please help? The food banks statewide are nearly...
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New Troubles for Patients Who Received Contaminated Injections
Just when it seemed like the number of illnesses attributed to contaminated steroid injections was leveling off, there are reports of new–and serious–illnesses arising. According to an article in The...
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Article 4
On December 4, 2012, there will be a public hearing on a new land condemnation project in Watauga and Ashe Counties. The topic will be the proposed U.S. 221 widening project, from U.S. 421 in Deep...
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HensonFuerst Attorney Speaks with Wake Forest Residents About Toxic Wells
Anne Duvoisin (left) meets with Stony Hill-area residents. Photo from The Wake Weekly/David Leone On Friday, December 7, HensonFuerst attorney Anne Duvoisin met with Wake Forest residents to discuss...
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New Guidance About Metal-On-Metal Hip Implants
This week, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) released updated safety recommendations for metal-on-metal hip replacement devices. This is the FDA’s most comprehensive set of recommendations...
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Junior Seau’s Family Sues NFL Over Concussion-Related Disease
In May 2012, we told you about the apparent suicide death of football star Junior Seau. He killed himself with a shot to the chest, presumably to preserve his brain so that experts could determine...
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What Did Manufacturer Know About Hip Replacement Defects?
Lots more information since we last wrote about defective metal-on-metal hip replacements. The first trial is underway, and plenty of details are emerging. From all the reports, this looks to be a...
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Honda Recalls Its Smallest Car
The Honda Fit wasn’t quite fit for sale. This week, Honda announced that it is recalling about 44,000 of its 2012 and 2013 model year Fit Sport cars. The reason has to do with the car’s electronic...
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RECALL: DiGiorno and California Pizza Kitchen Frozen Pizzas
Nestlé USA’s Pizza Division today announced the voluntary recall of select production codes of four different frozen pizzas sold in the U.S. These include: California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) Crispy Thin...
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U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act and the N.C. Wage and Hour Act
Here in the United States, workers’ rights are protected by a federal law called the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). For the average person, the most important things this law does are: guarantee...
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What’s Important in Your Wage or Overtime Case
A lot of clients worry about certain aspects of a case, even when those details have little or no legal effect on a claim for unpaid wages. Here’s what IS important in these cases: What definitely...
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Petition Opposing SB 174 (for Workers’ Compensation)
In 2011, North Carolinians helped injured workers by signing a petition opposing a massive overhaul of the NC Workers’ Compensation Act. As a result of those efforts and the work of many great people...
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Law Affects Many Transportation Projects
On June 19, the North Carolina General Assembly ratified Governor McCrory’s revamp of state transportation planning and funding. The new law is officially called “An Act to Strengthen the Economy...
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Minimum Wage Coming for Home Health Care Workers
Right now, if you provide care for a person in his or her own home and are not a registered nurse (“RN”), you are not owed minimum wage or overtime pay. This pay structure has been dubbed the “Home...
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Millions of Dollars Awarded in Transvaginal Mesh Cases
Women who have been harmed by transvaginal surgical mesh are finally seeing justice in the form of positive lawsuit verdicts in the millions of dollars. Some of the verdicts that have come in this...
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Fire Prevention Week
This year, the theme of Fire Prevention Week (October 6-12, 2013) is “Prevent Kitchen Fires.” More fires start in the kitchen than in any other part of the home, accounting for 40% of all home fires....
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From Raleigh to Rocky Mount, US 64 to Become I-495
U.S. 64 will be upgraded to interstate highway status between Raleigh and Rocky Mount, and renamed I-495. According to a story in the News & Observer, DOT will widen the inside and outside...
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