Our firm has spent a lot of time, effort and energy trying to get an honest answer that defense experts sedulously avoid: how much do you make testifying in accident cases and how much have you made from this law firm/insurance company? I think we have fought this issue as…
A lot of meritorious lawsuits were filed last week. Yet this morning my Google Reader quickly pointed me to two that seem to embody the definition of a frivolous lawsuit: Walter Olson on Overlawyered reports on a lawsuit in Canada where the Plaintiff is suing after she jumped out of…
I spend a lot of time responding to random questions from other lawyers. I will publish some responses to the extent they are helpful to anyone else. The topic for today is the practical ramifications of requests for admission deemed to be admitted at trial. I will think of others…
Rarely, but at least a few times a year, our law firm gets a wrongful death case in Maryland where, regardless of the facts, there is no claim. Here, the victim who may be loved by family and friends has no wrongful death claim because the victim has no spouse,…
I’ll admit to being a sucker for kind words: I am in CA and I wanted to thank you for your site. I am an innocent victim up against a very ruthless old attorney who has already forced me to bankruptcy and is trying to take my home for his…
Paul Luvera discusses a tough issue for Plaintiff’s lawyers: do you clue the jury in during your opening statement how much you will ask for in closing? I struggle with this and often opt for a middle ground. I lay out the foundation of what I will ask for: medical…
Religion and Scripture is the subject of one of the most compelling chapters in Reptile, a book offering a guide for plaintiffs’ lawyers on trying personal injury cases. The lessons offered in the book have made a meteoric rise from novel theories to conventional wisdom by most experienced personal injury…
In its final day in session, the Maryland General Assembly passed a bill that will place a constitutional amendment on the ballot in November to raise the jury prayer amount in civil cases in Maryland. Any case pled in District Court in Maryland for more than $10,000 can be “bumped…
Yesterday, the Maryland Daily Record published the first of a three-part series I wrote with retired Judge Clifton J. Gordy (now a mediator and arbitrator) on mediation in serious personal injury and wrongful death claims. The article is for both plaintiff and defense lawyers looking to make mediations as productive…
The Maryland Senate passed HB 825 which increases the minimum minimum limits of car insurance liability coverage in Maryland from $20,000.00/$40,000.00 to $30,000.00/$60,000.00. The Maryland House of Delegates has already approved the bill, and we expect the Governor to sign the bill soon. The bill will go into effect next…