I was in Florida after Christmas and missed the Maryland Court of Special Appeals’ opinion in Ayala v. Lee, a truck collision case in Anne Arundel County where the plaintiffs were two undocumented aliens who were rear-ended near Annapolis. After crossing the Bay Bridge, the driver of the plaintiffs’ vehicle…
Justice in Malpractice Cases Is Expensive Every single day we get phone calls from prospective clients who want to bring a medical malpractice case. We probably do a full investigation in 5% of these cases and sue in half of those cases. Why so low? In most cases, we…
Mark Mixter and James Farmer are two Maryland tort lawyers that just don’t like each other. There are lots of attorneys that don’t like each other. Lawyers are probably more confrontational and competitive than your average bear. If you doubt this premise, go watch a lawyers’ league softball…
If you badmouth an out-of-state company on the Internet, are you subject to personal jurisdiction in the state where the company resides? In Fertel v. Davidson, a federal court in Maryland was given this interesting question with an interesting set of facts. A 52-year-old artist, who was in a…
Do you have both a comp claim and PI case? Many of our personal injury clients bring both a regular civil claim and a workers’ compensation claim. Yet we get calls every week from someone who has an otherwise valid tort claim that may not bring that claim because of…
Maryland appellate court kicks malpractice case Before the holidays, the Court of Special Appeals issued a new opinion dealing with medical malpractice actions. The case, Puppolo, v. Adventist Healthace, Inc., et al., is a perfect example of how difficult it can be to litigate a medical malpractice claim when you…
The Maryland Court of Appeals decided Espina v. Prince George’s County last week. The opinion is not a good one if you care about justice. I have written here two times how awful governmental immunities are. But I think the topic is inexhaustible, like Doris Kearns Goodwin digging…
Are jurors just not smart enough? Defense lawyer tries medical malpractice case in Frederick, Maryland. He loses big. $7 million verdict. Here’s what he says to the media after the verdict: The jury’s verdict is significant because it makes the case for much-needed reform of Maryland medical malpractice law. First,…
California insurance law is far more generous than ours in Maryland I’m glad to say that our firm has had several verdicts in recent years that exceeded the insurance policy of the at-fault driver. In almost all these cases – there is one exception – we made a demand…
Can you make a UM claim against a taxi? Question: I am a New Jersey resident who was in a car accident taking a cab back to BWI airport. The taxi cab driver was probably speeding the accident was not his fault – someone just pulled out on us. I…