I’ve complained to you (all 14 of you) for years about Maryland’s ridiculous refusal to adopt dram shop laws to allow lawsuits against bars and restaurants who knowingly serve drunk people who then go out and hurt of kill someone. A divided Court of Appeals says the Legislature should take…
Here is an interesting look at the first 20 medical malpractice lawsuits filed in Maryland in 2016 with a brief summary of plaintiff’s allegations in the case. You can get all malpractice lawsuits filed in Maryland in 2017 up until April on our website. Hall v. Genesis Healthcare, LLC (filed…
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 have always had an interest in spoliation of evidence. Spoliation is the negligent or intentional destruction or alteration of evidence or failing to preserve evidence for relevant to future, and sometimes even pending, litigation. This is not an issue we see often in car accident cases but we see…
Last month, I wrote a bit about Jury Verdict Research, which conducts studies of jury verdicts around the country. A recent Jury Verdict Research study of trucking accidents found that truck accident victims recover damages in 60% of personal injury trials and receive a median compensatory award of $90,000. I…
Donald Trump has the support of a broad swath of people. Many of his supporters have the viewpoint that the problem in this country is too many lawsuits. Trump would not take this position. He is, by any definition, a celebrity. Many celebrities have a history of using lawsuit…
An amendment to Rule 1-311 went into effect on January 1st. The amendment requires that all pleadings filed electronically with an electronic signature must include the attorney’s client protection fund number. I cannot find the amended version of this new rule online. I highly doubt Judge Barbera will drive down…
You’ve met your injured client, executed your fee agreement, gathered your facts and put your file together. Your client is asking whether it is time to settle her personal injury case. Is it time to consider a settlement? If you settle a case too soon, you are leaving money on…
Ted Cruz has made a lot of enemies. I cannot remember a legitimate candidate for president who seemed to be as personally disliked as Ted Cruz. This quote in the Washington Post describes how he was viewed when he attended Princeton: “You either didn’t know Ted Cruz, you hated him,…
Click to enlarge Baltimore City settled a wrongful death and survival action by Freddie Gray’s family for $6.4 million. The criminally unfair Maryland Local Government Tort Claim Act would have capped these claims at $400,000. So Baltimore City settled for a whopping $6 million more than the maximum value of…