Last week, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina issued a meaty decision about N.C. Gen. Stat. § 75-1.1. The decision, in a case called SmithKline Beecham Corp. d/b/a GlaxoSmithKline v. Abbott Laboratories, merits a close read by all North Carolina business litigators. In the decision, Judge […]
It’s become an unfortunate rite of passage for the modern age: the receipt of a letter from a company explaining that one’s personal information been lost or stolen in a data breach. The letter usually offers to provide free credit monitoring or identity-theft insurance through a third-party vendor. The law […]
When a borrower asserts an alleged violation of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 75-1.1 against a lender, the claim often presents a familiar fact pattern. Frequently, the borrower alleges that the lender promised to refinance or modify the borrower’s loan and then broke that promise, causing injury to the borrower. A […]
Since this blog’s inception, we’ve primarily concentrated our posts on the law under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 75-1.1, a mainstay of business and consumer disputes in North Carolina. We’ve been gratified by the positive feedback from our readership as we write about novel developments in consumer-protection law. With an eye […]