The feds have charged a Silver Spring car accident lawyer and three other people in a pathetic scheme to induce people in car accidents to fake their injuries to make personal injury claims. If you saw this episode of Law & Order, you have the gist of the allegations. This…
Click to enlarge A Prince George’s County jury awarded $3.3 million in a mother and daughter pedestrian wrongful death case. The case is beyond tragic. A young woman and her unborn child were killed. The defendant was the state of Maryland and the claim was that the state should have…
Judge Roger W. Titus handed down a new opinion last week on the interplay between Maryland health claims arbitration and medical malpractice cases in federal court. The nutshell: regardless of what you may have thought, there is no interplay. At all. Willever v. United States is a medical malpractice wrongful…
The Maryland Court of Special Appeals said yesterday that Allstate is entitled to be as prejudiced as it wants to be. And sorry if you clicked on this because the title baited you, the court did not mean Allstate can discriminate based on race, creed, or religion. Instead, the court…
The Maryland Court of Special Appeals decided on a new malpractice case in Wantz v. Afzal. Facts Wantz is a Frederick County fatal medical malpractice case involving a staph infection following spinal fusion surgery after a slip and fall that allegedly caused the death of the plaintiff’s 77-year-old mother. At…
Good medical malpractice lawyers in Maryland read every high court opinion about medical malpractice. Yet I think everyone can skip the Maryland Court of Appeals opinion released today in Neustadter v. Holy Cross Hospital. Neustadter is a malpractice/wrongful death case involving the death of a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor. Another interesting…
The Legal Intelligencer has a blog with a smart title any trial lawyer would love: “Beware of the Smiling Juror.” In their heads, lawyers agree with the premise of the article which is: trying to read jurors is a complete waste of energy. But at trial, our hearts overrule our…
Driver fatigue is a frequent cause of truck accidents. How frequent is a matter of opinion. But more facts are on the way to creating informed opinions thanks to the Federal Motor Safety Administration’s new Compliance Safety Accountability Program. Safety reporting is the defining feature of this program. One of…
In Muti v. University of Maryland Medical Systems, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals returned to a subject that, until recently, has gotten little attention by our appellate courts: “use plaintiffs” in wrongful death cases. This is a medical malpractice wrongful death and survival action claim brought by two men…
There is an interesting opinion last week in a medical malpractice case involving federal diversity in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. Most tort lawyers are not litigating in federal court often unless they are doing mass torts. We have never had a malpractice case in federal court. But we have…