For St. Patrick’s Day, my kids always make elaborate leprechaun traps to try and catch the leprechaun. If they catch him, they get to keep his pot of gold from the end of the rainbow. Each year the traps get more elaborate, but each year we fail to catch the […]
It’s not every day that our state’s highest court gets an opportunity to weigh in on the scope of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 75-1.1. Last month, the North Carolina Supreme Court issued an important opinion on two familiar exemptions to liability under the statute: the securities exemption and the internal-business-disputes exemption. […]
Rights to insurance proceeds can be—and frequently are—assigned. For example, one business might acquire an insured’s right to insurance proceeds as part of a larger asset acquisition. Or an unpaid contractor who repaired damage to a home after a hurricane might take an assignment of the insured’s rights to collect […]
Our federal courts do not designate certain orders as being “orders of significance” the way the Business Court does, but if they did, a recent decision from Judge William L. Osteen, Jr. in the Middle District of North Carolina might qualify. This short blog post reviews such an order remanding […]
