W. Cory Reiss
Lawyers blue over Postal Service non-service.
The N.C. Court of Appeals affirmed dismissal of a complaint for insufficient service in part because USPS didn't get a signature.
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W. Cory Reiss
- Aug 19, 2022
- 2 min
Nurses face new liability for treatment decisions.
The North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday instituted the equivalent of the Spider-Man rule for North Carolina registered nurses by...
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W. Cory Reiss
- Jun 21, 2022
- 3 min
Casino Real: Minor earnest money bet raises stakes of real estate misdeals.
Going first is gambling. That’s why a legal question can linger in plain sight for years before someone decides to test it. The...
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W. Cory Reiss
- Jun 9, 2022
- 3 min
Rezoning challengers face steeper hill in development battles.
Some say you can’t fight City Hall, but that’s not really true. You can, but the battlefield is decided in a courthouse. And judging...
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W. Cory Reiss
- Nov 29, 2021
- 2 min
A plea against the fee: When your best argument is for ‘mercy,’ it may be too late.
A jury had hit three defendants with $65,000 in compensatory and punitive damages, and now their lawyer was asking a judge not to award...
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W. Cory Reiss
- Jun 3, 2021
- 3 min
Courts play gotcha with malpractice victims.
The Court dismissed a wrongful death action based on rules that give protections to medical providers that no other profession enjoys.
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W. Cory Reiss
- May 21, 2021
- 3 min
Raiders of the lost ARC: Title-clearing law zaps old property covenants.
Homeowners across the state may not realize it, but the Court of Appeals just triggered a bomb buried in a North Carolina statute for...
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W. Cory Reiss
- Apr 23, 2021
- 2 min
Defamation claims link insults to injuries.
Whether attacks with false information are written or verbal, they could be defamatory.
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W. Cory Reiss
- Feb 16, 2021
- 2 min
Trespass to timber cases reveal the roots of many disputes.
One way to value the loss of ornamental trees cut from residential property is the cost to replace them.
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W. Cory Reiss
- Nov 3, 2020
- 2 min
For sale: three bedrooms, two baths, and the builder's wiggle room.
Third-party home buyer “warranties” for new homes may induce buyers to give up stronger legal rights to correct construction defects.
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W. Cory Reiss
- Aug 3, 2020
- 2 min
The “L” word your building contractor can’t resist has a catch.
The risk is that a homeowner fights at the peril of paying both the contractor’s fees and her own. But the threat may be double-edged.
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W. Cory Reiss
- Jun 23, 2020
- 2 min
Nursing profession evolves, but malpractice claims are frozen in time.
The state Supreme Court ruled in 1932 that no nurse can be liable for medically negligent treatment decisions.
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W. Cory Reiss
- May 26, 2020
- 2 min
Blinded by the light: How insurance carriers learn the virtue of good faith.
Where good faith disagreement ends and bad faith refusal to settle begins can be a very tricky line to identify.
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W. Cory Reiss
- Apr 24, 2020
- 3 min
The grass is always greener when it's artificial turf.
Just take a moment to marvel at the amounts spent by a well-heeled HOA to hold at bay the evils of artificial turf.
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W. Cory Reiss
- Apr 21, 2020
- 3 min
Nursing home case may defuse some contract landmines.
Arbitration agreements require parties to avoid court and take their dispute before a private panel or single arbitrator.
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W. Cory Reiss
- Apr 2, 2020
- 2 min
Real estate agents, your mission should you choose to accept it, may be impossible
The issue is whether an agent did everything reasonable to meet the standard of care generally exercised by other agents.
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W. Cory Reiss
- Feb 27, 2020
- 2 min
Nursing home 'emergency' highlights need for vigilance
It's crucial that when considering placement in these facilities patients and their loved ones look at the public records.
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W. Cory Reiss
- Feb 22, 2020
- 3 min
It takes a village to protect the elderly
Undue influence is the effect that a person has over an often elderly victim to obtain property that would not have been given willingly.
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W. Cory Reiss
- Feb 9, 2020
- 1 min
Those fossils in your employment files are from Non-Competosaurus
A non-compete should be tailor-made for your business, the types of employees subject to them, and the goals they are expected to achieve.
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W. Cory Reiss
- Feb 1, 2020
- 2 min
How to avoid betrayal and scorn in a business divorce.
Litigation among previously blissful business partners often arises when one or more of them decide to part ways and compete.
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