Slumlords of North Carolina, this one’s for you. The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled Friday that landlords have no duty under state...

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One way to value the loss of ornamental trees cut from residential property is the cost to replace them.

Third-party home buyer “warranties” for new homes may induce buyers to give up stronger legal rights to correct construction defects.

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.

Where good faith disagreement ends and bad faith refusal to settle begins can be a very tricky line to identify.

Just take a moment to marvel at the amounts spent by a well-heeled HOA to hold at bay the evils of artificial turf.

The issue is whether an agent did everything reasonable to meet the standard of care generally exercised by other agents.