Firm News
What’s Happening at Wilson Helms & Cartledge
Read about what our law firm is doing and what's new in Forsyth County and North Carolina:
- Jury returns verdict in favor of physician on patient's claim that a spinal injection for pain relief caused spinal cord injury.
- Defense verdict for local obstetrician on allegations that delivery of the baby was delayed leading to asphyxia in the infant. Plaintiff claimed the delay in delivery caused severe neurological impairments and cerebral palsy.
- Industrial Commission finds claims against City of Winston Salem not compensable because employee failed to prove that her alleged injury occurred at work since she reported multiple different dates and at least two different areas of alleged injury.
- A college student sought damages for the alleged failure to diagnose bilateral hip fractures. The jury's verdict found the physician not liable when the hip fractures occurred during a seizure, which also caused multiple spinal fractures and a hematoma that likely explained the lower extremity paralysis.
- Industrial Commission finds claim for carpal tunnel syndrome by a parking attendant to be not compensable because claimant failed to prove that her job was sufficiently repetitive to cause this type of occupational disease.
- A minor child and his parents sought extensive damages from the delivering obstetrician and his practice for alleged birth related injuries following a placental abruption. Gray Wilson and Linda Helms successfully defended these defendants in Iredell County with the jury returning a verdict in favor of the defendants and finding no negligence.
- Jury returns verdict in favor of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and physician who cared for child who suffered birth injury resulting in cerebral palsy diagnosis.
- Federal court finds insurance company not responsible for damage to homes resulting from Tropical Depression Ivan.
