Christy C. Dunn

Christy concentrates her practice on civil litigation, insurance law, and employment law. She represents insurance companies in coverage and bad faith litigation and advises them on first-party and third-party coverage matters. Christy also represents employers, electric membership corporations, and long-term care facilities in civil litigation and defends long-term care facilities in compliance enforcement actions. Christy enjoys counseling employers and employees on employment law matters and advising electric membership corporations on easements and resolving easement disputes. She is named in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch^® in America in the areas of Insurance Law, Litigation – Labor and Employment, and Appellate Practice, and recognized among the 2025 North Carolina Rising Stars in Insurance Coverage published by Super Lawyers®. Christy is also named to Business North Carolina’s Legal Elite™ in the areas of Litigation and Employment.

Experience

Litigation

• Obtained early dismissal of lawsuit against electric membership corporation alleging excessive use of easement in upgrading transmission lines.
• Obtained early dismissal for insurance carrier of lawsuit alleging breach of contract, bad faith, and unfair and deceptive trade practices.
• Achieved favorable settlements of lawsuits in mediation for insurance carriers against claims of breach of contract, bad faith, and unfair and deceptive trade practices.
• Obtained early dismissal of wrongful death lawsuit against nursing home based on COVID-19 immunity defenses and fended off appeal without settlement.
• Defended electric membership corporation in $2 million subrogation lawsuit and earned voluntary dismissal with prejudice of all claims during discovery.
• Defended electric membership corporation in $700k- $2m lawsuit, negotiating early voluntary dismissal with prejudice of UDTP claim and achieving favorable settlement of negligence claim during discovery.
• Represented long-term care facility in successfully litigating and obtaining indemnification from independent contractor in wrongful death lawsuit.
• Obtained settlement proceeds for defendant in mediation of litigated property dispute by successfully asserting counterclaims and enforcing separation agreements.
• Defended retailer in premises liability matter.
• Earned dismissals of lawsuits at multiple bench trials in state court.

Employment

• Earned no-reasonable-cause determinations by EEOC against employment discrimination charges by former employees of national corporation, mid-size retailer, statewide home health care agency, and restaurant.
• Provide ongoing legal advice to regional media company with remote national workforce on employment policies and update employee handbook to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local laws.
• Obtained increase in severance pay for employee terminated by national corporation through a reduction in force.
• Obtained fourfold increase in severance pay and insurance benefits for director-level employee.

Counsel to Long-Term Care Facilities and Electric Co-ops

• Assisted large nursing home chain in improving processes for presenting arbitration agreements to residents to ensure regulatory compliance and enforceability of agreements.
• Advised electric membership corporation on easement rights, revised easement and membership documents to ensure enforceability of easements, and developed strategic plan to maximize rights in unrecorded easements.
• Resolved numerous easement disputes with servient estate holders on behalf of electric membership corporation.

Appeals

• Successfully represented skilled nursing facility in appealling cited deficiency (F600 tag) with Immediate Jeopardy to the United States Department of Health & Human Services, by securing dismissal of cited deficiency and rescission of civil money penalty by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
• Represented statewide long-term care associations as friends of the court to obtain discretionary review by state supreme court of COVID immunity statute and authored amicus brief in support of health care providers on the merits.

Before obtaining her law degree, Christy spent 13 years working as a sales engineer consulting with end users, engineers, and contractors to design, sell, and install power protection and precision cooling solutions for data centers and industrial applications. This experience provides Christy with unique insight into the responsibilities of professionals whose products and services support mission-critical business operations. By working closely with decision-makers at all levels of the end-user companies, Christy developed an appreciation for the challenges faced by business leaders making major strategic decisions.

Christy earned a BS in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned her law degree magna cum laude from Campbell Law School. While in law school, Christy interned in the Office of the Solicitor General of North Carolina and for The Honorable J. Douglas McCullough at the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Before joining Young Moore, she clerked for The Honorable Allegra Collins at the North Carolina Court of Appeals.

Christy is involved in many local, statewide, and national professional organizations and is active in the community.