This is a 14 year-old post but updated on May 3, 2020 to give the current state of negligent security law in Maryland. the Maryland Court of Special Appeals decided the case of Veytsman z. New York Palace, Inc. The issue in Veytsman was whether a nightclub had a duty…
Last week, I wrote about the new Baltimore judges selected by Maryland Governor Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr. Parenthetically, I noted that this is a big story in Baltimore because Judge Christopher Panos is openly gay. I added that I look forward to the day when this is not a story.…
Maryland Governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. appointed to the bench three Baltimore City Circuit Court judges yesterday: *Yvette M. Bryant, an insurance defense lawyer at the firm of Bryant, Karpinski, Colaresi & Karp. Judge Bryant attended Towson State and the University of Maryland School of Law. She was admitted to…
The Maryland Court of Appeals issued its opinion this week in Harleysville Mutual Ins. Co. v. Zelinski. This question addressed was whether a named driver exclusion endorsement was valid for a commercial truck insurance policy. The case stems from a head-on truck accident in Cecil County in 2000. A jury…
The Maryland Court of Special Appeals had occasion this month to consider what makes up a resident relative for uninsured motorist coverage in Mundey v. Erie Insurance Group. Here, The Maryland intermediate appellate court found a Prince George’s County man who had been living with his grandmother in Waldorf, Maryland…
Newsday reported on Sunday that a young victim killed in a drunk driving accident, seventeen-year-old Donny Ray Harris Jr., will be the first drunken driving victim in the state of Georgia remembered with an official highway marker, erected under recent state law governor Sonny Perdue signed just 13 days before…
The Baltimore Sun reported the implementation of an ordered procedural change for a nonfunctioning traffic light after two teenagers were killed in an auto accident in Columbia, Maryland. Howard County police are now requiring officers to stay at nonfunctioning signals until they are fixed or until a stop sign or…
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that plaintiff’s attorney Marc Bern sued Random House in U.S. District Court in Manhattan alleging that his clients purchased James Frey’s now-famous “A Million Little Pieces.” Plaintiff’s attorney stated that they based the claim for failure “to conduct a reasonable investigation or inquiry regarding…
The Baltimore Sun reported this week that Baltimore County judge sentenced a man to three years in prison for crashing through a concrete barrier last January on the Baltimore Beltway and killing a construction worker described as a hardworking man who had taken overtime shifts on the Beltway project to…