A new appellate opinion offers some interesting insight into the parameters under which a plaintiff may inquire about a truck driver’s driving record and the extent to which plaintiffs’ truck accident attorneys can use cross-examination fodder like the commercial driver license manual and other safety manuals. Fact of the Case…
In Maryland, a wrongful death lawsuit can be brought by a family member of someone who was negligently killed. The wrongful death lawyers at Miller & Zois, LLC have over 100 years of combined experience handling wrongful death claims in Baltimore where our law offices are based. Our firm also covers…
Scheduling depositions in car accident lawsuits usually is not a complex thing. You call the other side; you agree on dates, and you have your depositions. The key is cooperation. Rather than unilaterally serving a deposition notice, you just call opposing counsel and agree to the place, date, and time.…
There are lots of insurance defense lawyers in Maryland that you just cannot figure out why someone would hire them to defend a personal injury case. They unnecessarily complicate cases, bill hours on things that are completely unrelated to anything that would benefit the defense and, often, juries cannot stand…
In Troubles with Jeep Liberty Jeep Liberty is a cool-looking vehicle that has been off the market for the last three years. You never know all the reasoning behind why these decisions are made. But these vehicles, many of which were made in Egypt and Venezuela, have had many problems…
Should you accept the insurance company’s first offer even if you want to settle your personal injury claim? The answer is clearly no. So why do so many lawyers and victims do it? Fear Factor The primary reason attorneys and victims do just that is this fear that…
But she caught me on the counter (It wasn’t me) Saw me banging on the sofa (It wasn’t me) I even had her in the shower (It wasn’t me) She even caught me on camera (It wasn’t me) She saw the marks on my shoulder (It wasn’t me) Heard the…
Medical malpractice kills 400,000 people a year in this country and injures 4 million more. The media is now starting to focus on this story, as we just talked about on Monday after the Baltimore Sun’s story on negligence in Maryland hospital. Stories like this help plaintiffs in medical malpractice…
The Baltimore Sun published an important front-page article yesterday on hospital errors in Maryland. The premise of the article is a simple yet different approach to medical mistakes in Maryland hospitals. It goes like this. We have about 400,000 patients who are killed every year by medical malpractice. How…
One of the great selling points of caps in medical malpractice cases is that it encourages doctors to come to your state to practice. Every state, particularly in jurisdictions with rural areas where access and availability to doctors is a prominent concern, want to attract a healthy supply of doctors…