Setting the Standard

Attorneys

Brady A. Yntema

Partner (Member)

Brady is engaged in many areas of civil litigation, with a particular emphasis in the field of insurance defense, including analyzing and litigating insurance coverage issues. He has significant litigation experience in a wide array of disputes, ranging from complex personal injury and property damage claims to defending extra-contractual claims against insurers and litigating technical coverage claims under numerous types of policies, including commercial general liability, directors’ and officers’, homeowners’, and automobile policies. Before joining Pinto, Coates, Kyre, & Brown in 1999, Brady completed a clerkship for U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Catharine R. Carruthers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Practice Areas:

Appellate Practice
Commercial Litigation
Insurance Coverage
Insurance Defense
Motor Vehicle Accidents
Personal Injury
Products Liability
Property Coverage Disputes / Special Investigations
Property Damage Subrogation
Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Litigation
Wrongful Death

Bar Admissions:

North Carolina
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina
U.S. District Court, Middle District of North Carolina
U.S. District Court, Western District of North Carolina

Education:

University of Dayton School of Law, Dayton, Ohio, 1998 – J.D.
Elon College, Elon College, NC, 1995 – B.S. (Cum Laude)
Omicron Delta Kappa

Sample Reported Cases:

Pennsylvania National Mutual Casualty Insurance Co. v. Robin Hood Container Express, Inc., No. 5:08CV531, 2010 WL 2382505 (E.D.N.C. June 14, 2010)
Hunter v. Guardian Life Ins. Co. of America, 162 N.C. App. 477, 593 S.E.2d 595 (2004)
Clayton v. Branson, 153 N.C. App. 488, 570 S.E.2d 253 (2002)
Cacha v. Montaco, Inc., 147 N.C. App. 21, 554 S.E.2d 388 (2001)

Membership in Law-Related Organizations:

Greensboro Bar Association
North Carolina Bar Association
North Carolina State Bar
North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys (NCADA)
Defense Research Institute (DRI)

Legal Decisions of Interest

Plaintiff’s appointment as administratrix of a decedent’s estate the day after her complaint was filed and after the statute of limitations had run related back to the filing of the summons and therefore her wrongful death claim was not barred by the statute of limitations. Tallman v. City of Gastonia, No. COA08-1021 (N.C. App. Sept. 15, 2009). Click here for a copy of the case opinion.
Punitive damages upheld when Court believed there was sufficient evidence that defendant’s restaurant manager’s conduct was willful and wanton based upon his conduct toward plaintiff at the restaurant. Everhart v. O’Charley’s Inc., No. COA08-1454 (N.C. App. Oct. 6, 2009). Click here for a copy of the case opinion.
Plaintiff (representative of deceased employee) failed in her burden of forecasting evidence that a parent company affirmatively undertook to provide a safe working environment at the parent company’s subsidiary plant, beyond concern or minimal contact about safety matters, and the parent company did not assume primary responsibility for industrial safety at the subsidiary’s plant. Edwards v. GE Lighting Systems, Inc., No. COA09-247 (N.C. App. Nov. 3, 2009). Click here for a copy of the case opinion.
Plaintiff allowed to pursue claim to have “corporate veil” pierced of defendant company so that the obligation on a note by individual owning 99% of the stock of the defendant company could be satisfied from assets of defendant company, even though the company did not participate in the making of the note giving rise to the owner’s obligation. Fischer Investment Capital, Inc. v. Catawba Development Corp., No. COA08-1407 (N.C. App. Nov. 3, 2009). Click here for a copy of the case opinion.
Homeowners Association did not owe to a minor who was struck while riding his bike by a vehicular driver a legal duty to maintain the foliage in the common area of the housing subdivision. Fairbanks v. Brewington, No. COA09-237 (N.C. App. Jan. 19, 2010). Click here for a copy of the case opinion.
Plaintiff was contributorily negligent when she tripped over an end table at a hospital, and she presented no evidence that her attention was diverted as she was walking. Snow v. Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, No. COA09-189 (N.C. App. Jan. 19, 2010). Click here for a copy of the case opinion.
Where the Complaint was not frivolous based upon the facts and the law, but because Plaintiff had a history of filing frivolous pleadings in general and against Defendant in particular, the trial court could conclude that Plaintiff filed the Complaint for an improper purpose. Ward v. Jett Properties, LLC, No. COA08-1508 (N.C. App. Feb. 2, 2010). Click here for a copy of the case opinion.
Where the plaintiff mother alleged that the city was negligent by failing to comply with safety statutes and city ordinances regulating the maintenance of city streets, obstructions to vision and traffic, and parking regulations, and she did not seek to recover damages for the death of her child based on a law enforcement agency's failure to exercise its general duty to protect the public, she was not barred by the public duty doctrine. Beckles-Palomares v. Logan, No. COA09-567 (N.C. App. Feb. 2, 2010). Click here for a copy of the case opinion.
The improvement-to-real-property statute of repose does not apply to a claim against a city for failing to maintain its streets because a city has the duty to exercise a continuing supervision over its streets in order that it may know their condition and it is held to have knowledge of a defect which such inspection would have disclosed to it. Beckles-Palomares v. Logan, No. COA09-567 (N.C. App. Feb. 2, 2010). Click here for a copy of the case opinion.

Office Location

Phone:: 336.282.8848
Fax:: 336.282.8409

3203 Brassfield Road Greensboro, NC 27410