Finally, Stryker Recalls Defective Hip Implants In a somewhat tight-lipped press release and website page, Stryker Orthopaedics notes that it is voluntarily recalling two components of its metal-on-metal hip implant devices. The hip implant recall, according to Stryker, is based on post-market surveillance, which means that there have been a lot…
The Maryland Court of Special Appeals issued an opinion on Friday in Dixon v. Ford Motor Co., reversing a plaintiffs’ asbestos verdict. Update on This Case: The Maryland high court reversed! As is the case in asbestos cases involving a wrongful death and mesothelioma cancer, the verdict was large. The…
The Maryland Court of Appeals delivered its opinion in Barclay vs. Briscoe v. Ports America, a car accident case where the plaintiff was seriously injured by a man who had just finished a twenty-two hour shift at a job at the Port of Baltimore. Liability was not at issue here,…
One of the largest malpractice verdicts in Maryland history was handed down yesterday by a Baltimore City jury that awarded $55 million in a cerebral palsy medical malpractice case. The actual award will be reduced by Maryland’s medical malpractice cap to less than $30 million. Hopkins is expected to appeal.…
The perils of handling an accident claim that implicates law outside of the lawyer’s home state was underscored once again in the Maryland Court of Special Appeals opinion this month, in Bryan v. State Farm. A family – Mom, Dad, and two kids – were injured in a car accident…
The University of Baltimore School of Law has a new dean. Ronald Weich, former Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs at the Department of Justice, will take the helm at UB. I discuss now Dean Weich and the other candidates for the top spot at UB law school here. He…
Under Maryland law, when a defendant doctor is board-certified in a medical specialty, the plaintiff’s expert testifying to the breach of the standard of care must be board-certified in the same or a “related specialty.” Plaintiff’s medical error attorneys in Maryland have had a lot of sleepless nights over the…
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee recommended today that the full Senate vote to confirm Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Grimm to the federal bench. We had a chance to put him on the Maryland Court of Appeals we let slip away. Judge Grimm will make a great addition to the…
Most personal injury appellate opinions involve a high level of human suffering. If you stopped and connected with every opinion that involved human suffering, you would spend all day looking into the abyss. Every wrongful death case is awful. But this appellate opinion last week from Indiana just has unbelievably…
If you cannot make progress with an insurance adjuster, and the problem is something other than the valuation of the case, I’d ask to speak to the adjuster’s supervisor. (If the problem is the valuation of the case, whining about the offer is useless. File suit. Get on with it.)…