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A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed by Martin & Jones and Shipman & Wright, on behalf of all students attending the Charlotte School of Law during the fall 2016 semester. The complaint alleges that Charlotte Law and its owners, InfiLaw, violated North Carolina’s prohibition against unfair or deceptive […]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention have issued warnings concerning an increased risk of infection from heater-cooler devices used during open heart and transplant surgery. Heater-cooler devices are used during heart and transplant surgery to heat and cool a patient’s blood and […]

Ford has issued a recall on more 680,000 vehicles, most of which are in the United States.  According to news reports, certain Ford Fusions and Lincoln MKZs vehicles are being recalled because of a safety belt issue.  Ford indicates that the front seat belts may malfunction in a crash. During […]

More than 9,000 cases involving injuries or death caused by Xarelto have now been filed in state and federal courts against the manufacturer Bayer AG and its U.S. distributor Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. Xarelto is a blood thinner that has been associated with severe, irreversible internal […]

Our hearts go out to our friends and neighbors so devastated by Hurricane Matthew. We were looking for ways to help and wanted to share what we found. The Salvation Army, American Red Cross, and the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina are helping victims of this disaster, […]

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 […]