Click to enlarge Over the last 20 years, our car accident lawyers have handled many wrist fracture cases. We have seen wrist fracture cases with very high, very low, and everything in between. Our firm has a history of maximizing the trial and settlement value of wrist injury lawsuits. What…
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Foot Injury Lawsuits: Settlements and Verdicts
Obviously, there are a lot of vexing injuries that occur in car and truck accidents. Foot and ankle injuries rank high on this list of hard to solve accident injuries. There are so many bones in the foot — one-fourth of all of your bones — and the bones are…
How Much Compensation for Emotional Injuries?
Our clients sometimes incur hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills. They should be compensated for those bills. But the bigger harm in personal injury cases is the physical and emotional pain and suffering that comes with the victims’ injuries. Today, we will look at average compensation for emotional…
Golf Course Lawsuit Settlements and Verdicts
The original post was about an interesting verdict in New York in a “calling fore” golf course injury case. The case is still interesting. But it is 11 years-old. So I’m updating the post in 2020 by including sample settlements and verdicts in golf course injury lawsuits. Golf Course Injury…
Hawaii Medical Malpractice Settlements and Verdicts
There are not many malpractice settlements and verdicts in Hawaii. Here are three that I found and the awards or settlements are significant: 2019, Hawaii: $18,760,000 Settlement. A woman suffered an end-stage renal disease after experiencing a sepsis-related infection while giving birth at Tripler Medical Center. She experienced repeated and…
Arm Nerve Damage Jury Awards
Jury Verdict Research found that the median jury verdict in arm nerve damage cases over the last 10 years was $81,095. Arm nerve damage is defined by the study as injuries to the median nerve, radial nerve, ulnar nerve, musculocutaneous nerve, and axillary nerve which are all branches of the…
Value of Personal Injury Cases in Maryland
This blog post is about the settlement value of personal injury cases in Maryland and the chances that a plaintiff will prevail at trial? How Often Do Victims Win Personal Injury Lawsuits? After my blog entry about New Hampshire verdicts, I received a few emails from Maryland lawyers asking if…
10 Things I Learn Reading Jury Verdicts and Settlements
I tried to keep abreast of verdicts and settlements in personal injury cases in Maryland by reading the Maryland Daily Record, keeping up on the Maryland Association for Justice listserv, and getting the reports from Jury Verdict Research, Metro Verdicts, and just what I hear on the street from other…
Maryland Personal Injury Verdict Statistics
Maryland Verdict Statistics [Note: This post was originally written in 2006 and then updated in 2014, 2018, and 2023.] It is always interesting for a personal injury attorney to hear about trial verdicts in accident cases. We subscribe to Metro Verdicts Monthly, which summarizes primarily personal injury accident cases in…
Can Lawyers Properly Value Personal Injury Cases?
When trying to figure out the settlement value of a personal injury case, trial attorneys pull from usually only one resource: their own experience. We pull from our own cases and from cases we have heard about from other lawyers. But how good are we at valuing cases? First, it…