COKER v. DAIMLERCHRYSLER CORP

Wallace Graham, P.A., by Cathy A. Williams and Mona Lisa Wallace; Wyrick Robbins Yates Ponton LLP, by K. Edward Greene; and Shipman Wright, L.L.P., by Gary K. Shipman, for plaintiff-appellants. Smith Moore LLP, by Sidney S. Eagles, Jr. and Allison O. Van Laningham, and Bush Seyferth Kethledge Paige PLLC, by Raymond M. Kethledge, for defendant-appellee. Jonathan Wall, Counsel for the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, amicus curiae. Womble Carlyle Sandridge Rice, PLLC, by Burley B. Mitchell, Jr. and Sean E. Andrussier, for the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Tort Reform Association, amici curiae.