by John F Bloss | Jun 8, 2020 | Blog, News
Class actions can be an efficient and fair way to resolve, in one case, disputes that may affect a large number of people. By consolidating numerous individual claims with common issues into a single proceeding, the class-action device saves the resources of...
by John F Bloss | Feb 6, 2014 | Blog, North Carolina Litigation News
By John Bloss, Member, Higgins Benjamin PLLC Trust your fellow LLC member at your peril, a new North Carolina Business Court opinion instructs. Glenn Crossing, LLC, one of the defendants in Island Beyond, LLC v. Prime Capital Group, LLC, 2013 NCBC 51 (Oct. 30,...
by John F Bloss | Dec 9, 2013 | News
By: John Bloss, Member, Higgins Benjamin, PLLC A landlord who takes rent from a “holdover tenant”—a lessee who stays on the premises after the term of the lease—can run the risk of unwittingly creating a new lease term, generally presumed in North Carolina to be one...
by John F Bloss | Nov 25, 2013 | Blog, Intellectual Property, North Carolina Litigation News, Trademark
By: John Bloss, Member, Higgins Benjamin, PLLC The North Carolina Business Court continues to be a battleground for disputes involving alleged misappropriations of trade secrets. These lawsuits typically target disloyal former employees, but in a recent opinion, the...
by John F Bloss | Aug 6, 2013 | Blog, North Carolina Litigation News
It may seem counterintuitive, but many non-profit hospitals around the country charge their uninsured patients substantially more–often several times as much–for emergency room services as compared to amounts paid by all other categories of patients,...
