We are handling a red light/green light auto accident case that occurred in Towson, Maryland a few years ago that resulted in substantial permanent injuries to our client. Trial is a few months away. The insurance company for the Defendant is the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund (MAIF). Their attorneys recently…
The Maryland Senate has passed House Bill 425 and the Maryland House of Delegates today also passed the bill, which puts a new requirement of good faith for insurance companies dealing with their insureds. The bill now heads to Governor O’Malley for his signature. The Governor has previously pledged support…
Last month, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals issued its opinion in Maryland Casualty Co. v. Hanson. The issue in the case involved whether multiple exposures to lead-based paint over multiple years constituted multiple occurrences such that the insurance policies would stack or whether the policy’s “limitation of liability” provision…
In a comment to my May 22, 2006 post on giving recorded statements to insurance companies, Atlanta personal injury lawyer Ken Shigley makes a great point about how lawyers can knock insurance companies off their moral high ground when an injury victim’s car accident lawyer refuses to give a recorded…
A Virginia lawyer wrote me last night asking about a client that was injured in a motor vehicle accident in Maryland. Apparently, the car accident was a by-product of road rage that reached a point where the Defendant arguably intentionally rear-ended the Plaintiff’s car. The Defendant apparently admits positioning his…
Today, for the first time in ten years, State Farm’s Baltimore office conducted a “Settlement Day” hosting eight Maryland law firms at their offices to settle State Farm auto and truck accident cases. The day was a success for our office; we settled 70% of the cases up for discussion.…
Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran announced this week the guilty pleas of three sisters indicted in a scheme to defraud the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund (MAIF) of over $65,000. MAIF said that more could have been stolen but “paper records” from before 1994 have been destroyed. The sisters schemed…