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Asbestos Diseases - Mesothelioma
Our asbestos lawyers, Janet Ward Black, S. Camille Payton and David Rhodes, have represented more than twenty men and women who have died of mesothelioma, an incurable cancer caused by exposure to asbestos.

Asbestos Diseases
Our asbestos lawyers, Janet Ward Black, S. Camille Payton and David Rhodes, have represented more than 800 men and women who have asbestosis, a lung disease resulting from work-related exposure to asbestos products in the Carolinas. Many of these people worked in power plants and manufacturing facilities in North Carolina.

Defective Products
Janet Ward Black has represented more than 1,300 North Carolina women with defective breast implants.

Defective Products - Drugs
Janet Ward Black has represented more than 100 North Carolina women with heart valve damage after taking the diet drug combination, “Fen-Phen”.

Insurance
Our attorneys represented a man who had been receiving disability benefits under an insurance policy for several years. The insurance company merged with another company and cut off his benefits, even though the policy and the man’s condition remained unchanged.

Jet Ski Injury
Janet Ward Black represented a young woman who suffered a massive closed head injury while riding a Bombardier Sea-Doo jet-ski.

Medical Negligence
Our attorneys represented a woman suffering from dementia who was left alone on an x-ray table at a county hospital. The woman fell off the table breaking her hip. As a result of the fall, the woman was forced to remain in a skilled care environment, whereas before she lived at an assisted living facility, and enjoyed walking and dancing.

Medical Negligence
Our lawyers represented a woman given the wrong drug by her specialist, which caused the woman to have devastating injuries.

Medical Negligence
Our lawyers represented the estate of a woman against a psychiatrist for a failure to monitor her medications. The woman died of a toxic overdose of a drug prescribed by the psychiatrist.

Medical Negligence
Our lawyers represent the estate of a man against a psychiatrist for a failure to monitor his medications. The medications led to the man’s death.

Medical Negligence
Our lawyers represent a man against a doctor who prescribed the wrong drug, which inter-reacted severely with other medications the man was taking, causing him to sustain severe and life-threatening injuries.

Nursing Home Negligence
Our attorneys represented the family of a woman who died from dehydration less than one month after entering a nursing home.

Nursing Home Negligence
Our attorneys represented the family of a woman who died from blood poisoning after developing bed sores in a western North Carolina nursing home. The nursing home declared bankruptcy and alleged there was no insurance available to pay any claims.

Personal Injury - Inadequate Security
Our attorneys represented the estate of a college student who was shot and killed at work. Although the night supervisor was aware of threats the criminals made against the student, he failed to inform the student or others that the criminals were planning to hurt him at work. When the student returned to work the next day, the criminals shot and killed him.

Personal Injury - Premises Liability
Our attorneys represented a couple who suffered devastating injuries in a pedestrian bridge collapse that occurred after a race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. We alleged that the maker of the pedestrian bridge failed to follow North Carolina Department of Transportation guidelines in constructing the bridge, which led to its eventual collapse.  We also alleged that the Speedway failed to properly inspect the bridge where inspections would have revealed rust spots and cracking in the bridge would have alerted the Speedway that the bridge was not safe.

Personal Injury - Premises Liability
Our attorneys represented a truck driver who sustained serious injuries when he was walking through a receiving company’s plant and was struck by a moving forklift.

Personal Injury - Premises Liability
Our attorneys represented a young child who accidentally shot herself at a neighbor’s home with an unlocked gun that was left in the neighbor’s daughter’s play room. The child thought the gun was a toy, and it discharged, causing severe injuries to her face.

Personal Injury - Premises Liability
Our attorneys represented a woman who was severely injured at a local home improvement store. Store personnel were using a forklift to retrieve items in the overhead racks. The employees ignored company policy by failing to close off an adjacent aisle and, while retrieving items in the overhead, the employees knocked a heavy box of merchandise onto the client, who was shopping in the adjacent aisle.

Professional Negligence - Pharmacy
Our lawyers represented the estate of a man whose prescription was mis-filled by a pharmacist, ultimately leading to the man’s death.

Professional Negligence
Our lawyers represented a woman who was sexually abused by her psychotherapist. In North Carolina, therapists are prohibited from having even “consensual” sexual relationships with patients.

Civil Rights/Race Discrimination
Our lawyers have represented employees who were threatened and harassed in the workplace based on their race or gender. We have represented women who have been sexually assaulted by supervisors or co-workers in the workplace, and African Americans who were physically threatened on the job because of their race.

Civil Rights/Race Discrimination
Our lawyers represented three African American males who were intimidated by co-workers who hung a Confederate flag and a noose in the warehouse. When the men complained to the owners, they were told it was the owners’ warehouse and they could go to work at McDonald’s if they did not like the flag and noose.

Civil Rights/Sex Discrimination
Our lawyers filed suit under the Equal Pay Act for a woman who worked for a housing authority for 20 years and performed the same job as a man who had much less experience. When the woman discovered she was paid less than her male counterpart and brought the matter to the Executive Director’s attention, he told her she could quit if she did not like the situation.

Wrongful Death
Janet Ward Black represented the estate of a 28- year-old mother of two, a Hospice worker, who was tragically killed by a drunk driver, Rob Moroso, who was a NASCAR “Rookie of the Year.” Moroso was also killed in the wreck.

Wrongful Death
Janet Ward Black represented the estate of a man who died at a hospital from a blood clot. The blood clot was the result of the hospital administering insufficient blood thinner while the man was hospitalized.

Wrongful Death
Janet Ward Black represented the estate of a woman who died as a result of taking the diet drug combination, “Fen-Phen”. The drugs caused her to develop primary pulmonary hypertension, an almost invariably fatal disease. She died within two years of her diagnosis at age 41.

Wrongful Death
Our lawyers represented the estate of a child killed on a youth mission trip with his church, when the driver of the church van fell asleep and lost control of the van.