Ignoring a little-known statute that requires that the Maryland Insurance Commissioner and similar positions must be filled by white men in their 50s, Governor O’Malley has appointed Therese Goldsmith as the new Maryland Insurance Commissioner. Most Marylanders do not understand what the Maryland Insurance Administration does, picturing that old white…
Almost two years ago now, Medicaid/Medicare liens became even more difficult to deal with as the law pushed to the lawyers and insurance companies the obligation of confirmation and resolution of Medicare/Medicaid liens. I’m sure betting an insurance company has yet to receive a fine for not verifying a lien…
On this website [update: since taken down] soliciting drunk drivers, a nice heads up is provided as for drunks how to avoid specific sobriety checkpoints. This is just one post but most of the blog/website seems focused on giving a heads up which checkpoints to avoid. I’m not sure why…
Judge Harrell opens the Maryland Court of Appeals’ unanimous opinion today like this: [Jeremy] Bentham (my note: a name familiar to my ultraeducated readers and Lost fans) stated the case against retroactivity most succinctly when he likened it to ‘dog law.’ He was referring to the age-old method of training…
Big win for lead paint plaintiffs today in Maryland Court of Appeals as the court ordered a new trial after a jury verdict for the landlord. Jury instruction error in lead paint case not harmless error: new trial In Janay v. Wlikowsky, the landlords’ attorney questioned the Plaintiff’s grandmother whether…
The Lawyers Logbook has an article on truck accident claims by John F. Romano that I really liked. I read a lot of articles by lawyers on handling personal injury cases. Honestly, you have to kiss a lot of frogs to find something interesting or useful. Usually, what you get…
Insurance companies have “go to” doctors for “independent” medical exams. These doctors operate by either (1) the sincere conviction that virtually no one is as hurt as they say they are or, (2) by financial motivation. My money is typically and cynically on the latter. There are some true believers,…
Subrogation allows insurers to recover the costs of reimbursing injured insured parties. Virtually every health insurance company involved in a car accident or medical malpractice case in Maryland demands repayment – to varying extents – of the money they have spent and have established various byzantine procedures for dealing with…
Max Kennerly touches on a topic this week I think is interesting and important. To what extent are plaintiffs’ nursing home lawyers making nursing homes safer? People hunker down in one of two camps: (1) nursing home lawyers are saving our elderly from being unmercifully abused; or (2) nursing home…
A lawyer at DeCaro, Doran, Siciliano, Gallagher & DeBlasis, a good Bowie law firm that we have a good deal of respect for that does a lot of insurance defense work, got a speeding camera speeding ticket in Montgomery County. He decided to fight it. The basis? He found a…