Meredith Hinton
VerifiedAbout Meredith Hinton
Meredith S. Hinton is a personal injury attorney at Ricci Law Firm in Greenville, North Carolina, providing representation to clients in Fayetteville, Raleigh, Charlotte, Rocky Mount, and surrounding areas. Her practice focuses on car accidents, motorcycle collisions, truck accidents, and personal injury matters.
Hinton earned her Bachelor of Arts from East Carolina University and her Juris Doctor from Campbell University Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law. She has been licensed in North Carolina since 2005.
She is a life member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, a membership requiring verdicts and/or settlements of $1 million or more.
Hinton has been selected to Super Lawyers from 2021 to 2025 and to Rising Stars from 2017 to 2020. She has served as Membership Co-Chair and New Lawyers Division Liaison for the Auto Torts Section of the North Carolina Advocates for Justice.
Notable case results
A Henderson County jury awarded $101 million to two masonry workers and one worker's wife after a 12-foot retaining wall, rebuilt under Hajoca's direction without an engineer or a permit, collapsed onto their crew.
North Carolina Lawyers Weekly reported that Meredith Hinton of Ricci Law Firm resolved a motor vehicle injury claim for $21 million in 2023, one of the larger auto settlements recorded in the state that year.
Ricci Law Firm and co-counsel recovered $9.5 million for the family of an 84-year-old woman killed when a driver fleeing police ran a stop sign, with the case built on the negligent entrustment of the car to a man whose license was suspended over repeat DWI charges.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
