Tim is a partner in the firm’s litigation section and has over ten years of experience in the courtroom. He has served as lead counsel in jury trials in over a dozen counties in Eastern North Carolina and has also argued before the North Carolina Court of Appeals and the North Carolina Supreme Court. Tim focuses his practice in the areas of tort and insurance litigation, including insurance defense and coverage, products liability, and major plaintiff’s personal injury and wrongful death. Tim also practices in the area of commercial and real property litigation, including contract disputes and land condemnation. Tim has been with Poyner Spruill since 1997.
Representative Experience
USA vs. Moorman Pine Plantations, L.L.C. (2008)
Nash-Rocky Mount Board of Education v. Life United Pentecostal Church (2007)
- Won $1,250,000 settlement in land condemnation action where church had been offered only $720,000 prior to suit, also litigating the authority of the Board of Education to take and condemn the church property under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act.
Evert v. Lake Toxaway Country Club, Inc. (2006)
- Won $5,900,000 settlement in case involving anoxic brain injury to a four-year old child, suffered in a near-drowning accident in a swimming pool that had not been properly maintained.
Herring v. Food Lion, LLC, 360 N.C. 472, 628 S.E.2d 761 (2006).
- Won unanimous Supreme Court decision reinstating directed verdict for Food Lion in premises liability action, following trial and intermediate appeal.
Rauch v. Urgent Care Pharmacy, Inc., 178 N.C. App. 510, 632 S.E.2d 211 (2006).
- Successfully defended pharmacy and its owner in mass tort actions arising out of allegedly contaminated compounded medication.
State ex rel. Cooper v. Ridgeway Brands Manufacturing, 646 S.E.2d 790, 2007 N.C. App. LEXIS 1613 (2007).
- Represented cigarette manufacturer and its owner in action brought by the State of North Carolina to recover escrow deposits due under the Master Settlement Agreement, for violation of the North Carolina Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices Act, and for civil conspiracy.
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Prior Legal Experience
Prior to joining Poyner Spruill, Tim served as a Law Clerk to Chief Judge James C. Fox of the United States District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina from 1995 to 1997.