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…
What is the settlement value of a personal injury claim where you have lost your vision in either one eye or both? Metro Verdicts Monthly has a graph that reflects the median verdicts and settlements when the injury victim loses vision in one eye in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.…
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…
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…
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…
Metro Verdicts Monthly’s graph in this month’s issue is median settlements and verdicts in cervical (neck) herniated disc cases in Maryland, Washington, D.C, and Virginia. The median cervical herniated disc case in Maryland is $40,000. The Washington D.C. and Virginia medians are $50,000 and $36,000, respectively. Settlement Values Vary Wildly…
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…
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…
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 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…