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When interest rates were very high in the 1980s and 1990s, insurance companies aggressively sold Universal Life Insurance policies promising the customers that their monthly premiums would never increase. However, these insurance companies knew that the premiums on these policies would increase when interest rates inevitably went down, but chose […]

John Alan Jones and Forest Horne have once again been recognized by Best Lawyers. John Alan Jones was recognized as a Best Lawyer in the areas of Medical Malpractice, Mass Tort Litigation, and Product Liability Litigation. John Alan has also been named Lawyer of the Year in Raleigh for Mass […]

Martin & Jones attorneys Forest Horne and Hunt Willis represented two plaintiffs who were injured in bicycle accidents that occurred in January 2014 as a result of Time Warner Cable failing to respond to a down cable.  After a two-week trial in Wake County, a jury unanimously returned a $500,000 […]

When an employee is hurt while providing a service to more than one employer, a common question is which employer should be responsible for paying workers’ compensation benefits to the injured employee. This issue usually arises when the injured employee is working through a staffing agency or temporary employment agency, […]

In a recent study published in The BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal), one of the foremost medical journals in the world, two researchers from Johns Hopkins concluded that medical errors account for more than 250,000 deaths every year in the United States. This places these preventable errors in an […]

Can using baby powder, or talc powder, in feminine hygiene cause ovarian cancer?  Two Missouri juries have recently answered that question with yeses.  In February 2016, a jury awarded $72 million to the family of a woman who died of ovarian cancer at the age of 62.  Jacqueline Fox, who […]

News agencies are reporting that an additional 35 million air bag inflaters could be recalled later this week by Takata Corp., the manufacturer of the faulty inflaters that have been involved in an expanding recall since the end of 2008.  Takata was fined $70 million by the National Highway Traffic […]

According to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, tractor-trailer and large truck crashes resulted in nearly 4,000 deaths, and more than 104,000 injuries in the most recent year for which statistics are available, 2012. This shocking number of deaths and injuries, according to some, is due in part to businesses […]

Martin & Jones attorneys Forest Horne and Hunt Willis along with attorneys Don Evans and Seth Buskirk of the Wilmington law firm Clark, Newton & Evans, PA have filed a lawsuit against Bald Head Island for injuries suffered to their client Mary Springmeier in the December 17, 2013 ferry grounding. […]

Hunt Willis has been selected to the 2016 North Carolina Rising Stars list. Each year, no more than 2.5 percent of lawyers in North Carolina are selected to receive this honor. Super Lawyers rates lawyers in more than 70 practice areas based on statewide lawyer surveys and peer reviews. Hunt […]