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…
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…
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…
Clearly, the new Republican tradition is to pay homage to Ronald Reagan whenever you have a segue to do so – and even when there’s not. Everyone has forgotten Iran-Contra and those Marines in Lebanon. Instead, we have focused on the fact that he presided over 8 years of relative…
Johns Hopkins is quite possibly the greatest hospital in the history of the world. People come from all over the world to get the best medical care that Hopkins can provide. Delayed removal response means the claim against Hopkins will be in federal court The U.S District Court in Baltimore decided…
Would you rather sue a healthcare provider for negligence in Health Claims as a medical malpractice case or would you rather file a simple negligence case in Circuit Court? If your answer was Health Claims, you need to get your head examined. Filing in Health Claims in Maryland just creates…
Late last year, the Maryland Court of Appeals decided yet another “Should we shoot for justice or dwell on the hypertechnical?” case in Lisy Corp v. McCormick and Co. The court went the wrong way. Here, the Plaintiff filed a lawsuit in Howard County alleging both tort and contract claims.…