Paul Luvera offers on his blog a good checklist (sorry, link now broken) for preparing a case for trial. Paul points out that checklists – seemly obvious things that have probably been around since man was carving into stone – have received renewed interest in other fields, most notably in medicine…
One case I have been meaning to write about for a few months is Dickerson v. Longoria, a recent opinion that I think is important for Maryland nursing home patients and their counsel. The ultimate issue in Dickerson is whether a family member had the authority to bind a nursing…
The Legal Intelligencer has a pretty comprehensive article about how to frustrate, annoy, and pry into a plaintiff’s Facebook activity. In a malpractice or car accident case, the primary purpose of Facebook discovery is to show that the plaintiff is not as injured as claimed in the lawsuit or in…
A few weeks ago, I reported on a verdict we got against State Farm in Baltimore County. I inadvertently stumbled on the Maryland Daily Record article on the case today.
George Washington Law Review has published an article titled, appropriately, Against Summary Judgment. The premise of the article is that summary judgment is an archaic procedural device that usurps the role of the jury. Nonsense. Summary judgment resolves cases that juries should not have to decide because the law bars…
The Tennessee Titans have sued the University of Southern California and coach Lane Kiffin for “maliciously” luring away assistant running backs coach Kennedy Pola. The lawsuit claims the hire disrupted planning and “potential loss of confidence by players.” The first complex legal question here is clear: do you really need…
I spent a good portion of last week preparing for a trial scheduled for today that settled on Friday. It is a little depressing how many many hours our firm spends every year preparing cases for trial that settle. But every time you really prepare for a trial, you learn…
If you are a regular Maryland Injury Law Center reader, I want to keep you. I’ve read so many good blogs that I stopped reading because I just kinda forgot about them. This is one more way to subscribe.
When an insurance company gets a claim, the first thing it does is look for ways to deny the claim before getting to the merits. I don’t say this derisively. This is how the game is played. One insanely overused method of avoiding getting to the merits of a case…
Good news for plaintiffs to start off the week. Rod Gaston, a lawyer in our office, tried a Reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) case in Baltimore County last week against a State Farm insured. The offer in the case was $37,000. After hearing evidence for three days, the jury returned after…