This is a time of year for top 10 lists. So I have put together a list of the top 10 opinions of interest to personal injury lawyer from the Maryland Court of Appeals and the Maryland Court of Special Appeals and from the federal bench: Poole v. Coakley Williams…
The Maryland Court of Special Appeals turned back another injured victim under the archaic “Really, do we still have that in 2011?” doctrine of sovereign immunity. The plaintiff alleged she suffered an ankle injury when she slipped and fell on a wet platform after exiting a train at the Cheverly…
The Washington Post reports that Montgomery County Judge Brian G. Kim resigned after reports of a road rage incident circulated. Apparently, Judge Kim was accused of tailgating a woman – yes, it matters to me – because he was believing he’d been cut off. She reported to the police that…
Awful story. Young and handsome 17-year-old boy is killed in a car accident. Inexplicably, the city morgue displays the child’s brain. Sure enough, the boy’s classmates go on a field trip to the morgue and see the boy’s brain floating in formaldehyde. How did they know it was his? The…
News and thoughts from this week: Baltimore moves closer to settling a claim brought by a man who was injured while doing sanitation work as his court-mandated community service. The Maryland Daily Record has a big Monday law story on a woman was suing her medical malpractice lawyer. I can’t…
I love when someone does a study confirming one of my pet theories. My theory: juror skepticism towards plaintiffs is fueled by unwarranted perceptions in the media as to whether jurors are reaching fair verdicts. The Center for Justice & Democracy has published a study showing that the media distorts…
I read four personal injury-related appellate opinions published last week that I think are worth reading: Thibodeaux v. Trahan: Like most personal injury lawyers, I have been hit with post-trial remitter motions from defense attorneys claiming that the jury’s verdict was unreasonably high. But no plaintiff’s lawyer is silly enough…
If you have the time, here are a few opinions of interest from the past few weeks for personal injury attorneys. If you don’t have the time, I have tried to provide a quick summary of the relevant facts and law. Rosenfeld v. Oceania Cruises: This is the classic slip…
In what I would like to be a regular feature, I have provided a summary of opinions in the last week or so that may interest Maryland tort attorneys. Maryland opinions are important, but I think reading opinions from other jurisdictions also give a better understanding of the arguments and…
The first lawsuit has been filed over the Indiana State Fair stage collapse that killed six people last week. The suit claims that flimsy stage construction and failure to heed warnings of “severe thunderstorms” caused the injuries and deaths that ensued. Ultimately, and I have written this before, I think…