Media Coverage of Some of Our Firm's Cases
| Local Rape Victim Receives $1.2 Million Settlement in Shopping Mall Inadequate Security Case | July 2009 |
A local woman who was raped and robbed after being abducted from a local mall reached a $1.2 million settlement because the mall failed to provide adequate security to protect its patrons.
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| $1,000,000 Settlement for Elizabeth City Motorcycle Rider | August 2008 |
An Elizabeth City motorcycle rider suffered multiple broken bones and a closed head injury when another driver turned left directly in front of him. After settling with the automobile insurance company for the $1,000,000 insurance limits, attorney Danny Glover, Jr. was able to settle a $500,000+ ERISA health insurance claim against the settlement for only $35,000.00.
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| Currituck Arrow Shooting Victim Receives $440,000 Settlement | 2007 and 2008 |
A 9 year old boy who was shot in the eye with an arrow obtained two settlements totaling $440,000.
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| Elizabeth City Jury Awards Local Motorcycle Rider 1.1 Million Dollar Verdict | June 2007 |
In what's believed to be the largest civil judgment of its kind in Pasquotank County, a jury has awarded $1.1 million to a 65-year-old Elizabeth City man who suffered disabling injuries in a motor vehicle accident two years ago.
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| Law firm's New Name Reflects Partnership | June 2006 |
The law firm of D. Keith Teague P.A. is now known as Teague and Glover P.A. Teague will continue to work in the courtroom on criminal defense, DWI and traffic cases. Glover will continue to handle the serious bodily injury and accidental death cases, as well as civil litigation and appeals to the North Carolina Court of Appeals and N.C. Supreme Court.
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| Local Woman Who Injured Shoulder Receives $250,000 Settlement Against Tractor Trailer Driver and Company | May 2006 |
An Elizabeth City lady who suffered a torn rotator cuff when her vehicle was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer in Virginia received a $250,000 settlement.
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| Family of Local Boy Killed on ATV Obtains Confidential Settlement Against Dump Truck Driver | December 2005 |
A 9-year-old boy was killed when his ATV collided with a dump truck near his grandfather's home.
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| Court of Appeals Upholds Family's Rare Win Against DOT in Defective Highway / Wrongful Death Claim | September 2005 |
The North Carolina Court of Appeals upheld a $500,000 tort claims award to the family of a Camden County motorist who slid into a bridge after hitting a "pond" of standing rainwater only six days after another fatal wreck at the same location. According to the opinion, the decedent, Larry Walker, was traveling south on state Highway 343 in Camden County when his Ford Ranger lost traction on a wet road and struck a concrete bridge piling 88 feet away.
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| Jurors Find Hall "Not Guilty" of Murder | August 2004 |
Randall Hall left Courtroom A of the Pasquotank County Courthouse for the last time Friday after a jury of 10 women and two men found him not guilty of murder in the May 31, 2002 shooting death of his brother Junius Hall. Hall clasped his hands and looked toward the ceiling when the verdict was read.
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| Thrasher Cleared of Murder in Fatal Beach Crash | April 2003 |
A Carova man was cleared Thursday of all charges stemming from a fatal crash on the Outer Banks. William "Rusty" Thrasher sat impassively as Judge Richard Parker read down the list of not guilty verdicts a jury returned at 11:40 a.m. Thrasher had been charged with two counts of second degree murder and two counts of assault in connection with the crash, and he could have faced more than 50 years in jail had he been convicted.
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| Farm Tractor Driver Gets $347,500 After Rear-End Collision by Tractor Trailer | July 2002 |
Plaintiff, age 66, was driving his farm tractor down the paved shoulder of a five-lane highway. The defendant, age 74, was driving his tractor-trailer in the far right lane and struck the plaintiff's tractor from the rear, breaking the tractor in half and throwing the plaintiff in a ditch.
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| Dump Truck's Failure To Yield Results In $500,000 Settlement | July 2001 |
Plaintiff, age 40, was driving on the main road when a construction dump truck exited a construction site, failed to yield and hit plaintiff's vehicle in the side.
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| Court of Appeals Reinstates Probation Officer's After Unlawful Firing by State | April 2002 |
A state parole officer fired for failing to report criminal charges against a parolee should have kept his job, the state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. The parolee, Ivan F. Lovell, shot and killed a Maryland state trooper in October 1995 after he was not held in this state for violating terms of his parole.
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| Estate Settles with Radiologist for Failure to Diagnose Cancer | August 2000 |
A retrospective examination of the chest films that were taken in September of 1995 revealed a small isolated mass measuring approximately 1.5 cm by 3.0 cm. There was no evidence of metastasis on the September 1995 chest film. The radiologist who read the prior films did not report the existence of the mass.
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