Our Memorial Day weekend got a good kickoff with a $5.2 million verdict in Baltimore in an emergency room misdiagnosis medical malpractice case. I can’t start out the facts of this case without pointing out how amazing our client and his family were and are. Just a great loyal family.…
Update: Stop the presses. This rule has already been repealed. We have a new rule in Maryland: Rule 1-322.2: Rule 1-322.2 shall take effect and apply to all actions commenced on or after July 1, 2014, and insofar as practicable to all actions then pending. (a) Certificate Required. Every pleading…
Drafting Interrogatories In Maryland, each party is allowed 30 interrogatories under Maryland Rule 421 without leave of the court. I was looking at a case today that was referred to us by a lawyer who had already filed suit in the case. Our lawyers are normally hesitant to take a…
The average verdict in a Maryland auto tort case is around $12,000. How can this be? I’ll tell you how it be: attorneys filing cases in Circuit Court that just should not be going in front of a jury. These are my thoughts after reading about a recent jury verdict…
In Kassem v. Gaddy, the Michigan Court of Appeals was faced with a simple question: can you scare a man to death? Facts of Kassem This is an odd case. An 85-year-old man crashed into the back of a tractor trailer. It sounds like the man was at fault…
The Maryland Court of Appeals just affirmed a lead paint verdict against the Baltimore Housing Authority. This is yet another case where a governmental entity sought the refuge of the Local Government Tort Claims Act. Thankfully, the Baltimore Housing Authority could not avail causing brain damage to a child…
Tiger Woods “easy” back surgery hurts some tort victims Tiger Woods announced today that he has undergone successful back surgery and expects to be back playing golf this summer. Good for him. This is bad news for golf fans who passionately root for or against Tiger. But it is also…
In Pearson v. State, the Maryland Court of Appeals earlier this month addressed the important question of which voir dire questions, if requested, must be asked of prospective jurors. Why am I writing about it? It might have important ramifications on civil personal injury jury cases. The case’s facts are…
2019 Update: We are #119. Which is some progress. We can do better and we will. The U.S. News and World Report rankings came out today (I wrote this in 2015.). It was not a good day for the University of Baltimore School of Law: ranked #135 among U.S.…
One of the most highly commented blog posts I have had here was when the Maryland Court of Appeals decided Tracey v. Solesky, one of the rare appellate opinions that seemed to make everyone mad. Tracy carved out a pit bull exception and make pit bull owners pretty much strictly…