Trying to successfully resolve clients’ medical liens has to be one of the toughest challenges facing personal injury lawyers in large cases. I have had many cases where the case’s hardest part was not getting the settlement or verdict’ but getting the medical liens resolved. It also can be most frustrating…
Every now and again I read a publication called “Physician Risk Management.” Billed as a publication to help doctors minimize liability and protect them from lawsuits, it is a well-written publication written by people who do seem to know what they are talking about. Here is why I don’t like…
Click to enlarge The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday affirmed a summary judgment ruling dismissing a trucking dispatching system manufacturer from a personal injury accident lawsuit. The court ruled that the company could not be responsible for a crash allegedly caused by a texting driver. Interesting facts…
Jury Verdict Research has some interesting data on which injures comprised the largest proportion of cases in which juries or courts awarded the victim over $1 million. Here is the category followed by its relative percentage of million-dollar verdicts: Death – 28% Brain Damage – 14% Leg Injuries – 6%…
On Christmas Eve, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals issued a treatise of an opinion written by retired Judge Charles E. Moylan in Antar v. Eagan. I will not give you a complete analysis because it is Christmas, but this case is worth talking about for Maryland personal injury attorneys.…
I just hung up with an Allstate adjuster. At-fault carrier (Safeco) put up 50,000 so we turn to the UM carrier for the additional $50,000. She offers $2,500 on top of the $50,000. She said something to the effect of, “There is only $50,000 left so what incentive do we…
The much-anticipated list of judicial hellholes is out. Baltimore made the list once again. The write up on Baltimore begins with the notion that for evidence that Baltimore is a judicial hellhole, well just ask Miller & Zois. Baltimore has been described as an up-and-coming Judicial Hellhole for years, but…
I’ve written a good bit about use plaintiffs’ in Maryland wrongful death cases and the hornets’ nest that lawyers can find themselves in when they do not have all the potential wrongful death beneficiaries reading off the same sheet of music before filing suit. The Maryland Court of Appeals has…
Louisiana’s Court of Appeals last month issued an unpublished opinion in Rando v. Furr, a case that dealt with the ins-and-outs of uninsured motorist coverage and bad faith claims. Here’s what happened: A man was driving his motorcycle and was involved in an awful collision with a pickup truck driven…
U.S. District of Judge Richard D. Bennett issued an opinion Monday in Robertson v. Iuliano, an informed consent medical malpractice lawsuit against a neurosurgeon and St. Agnes Hospital. New Opinion on Apparent Agency and Informed Consent Law in Maryland The first question you might have is how this malpractice case ended…