The Maryland Injury Law Center received today the following comment from an emergency room doctor in southern Maryland regarding my blog post on the alleged shortage of doctors in Maryland: “You are guilty of not supporting your assumptions with data as well. I practice emergency medicine in St. Mary’s County…
The Maryland Daily Record reports that a Baltimore jury awarded $82,000 to an 8-year-old boy who only briefly exhibited elevated levels of lead in his blood. In May 2000, the boy’s level was four micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood. In December, his level rose to 29 micrograms. I…
The Maryland Court of Special Appeals decided the Titan v. Advance case yesterday. Titan is a case where the Plaintiff alleged negligent repair of a roof that led to the clogging of a roof drain, which then resulted in the Plaintiff’s premises to flood. It is located on Eastern Avenue…
Last month, retired Howard County Judge Dennis M. Sweeney wrote an article in a series of articles he is writing for the Daily Record. The latest article discusses voir dire. One point Judge Sweeney makes is that judges have an aversion to proposed voir dire questions that seem to be…
Point of Law has an interesting blog post on a recent study regarding contingency fees. I found two conclusions of interest. First, the study found that people who had the financial means to pay attorneys’ fees upfront still preferred a contingency fee arrangement, even if that arrangement meant they were ultimately…
The New York Personal Injury Lawyer Blog tipped me off to an article in the Chicago Tribune last week about a patient who sued her eye doctor and his assistant alleging that the doctor’s assistant licked the patient’s toes during her eye exam in Skokie, Illinois. Apparently, the Plaintiff went…
How many times have you Googled for one purpose and then found something interesting unrelated to what you were looking for? This weekend, looking for something unrelated, I found a New Yorker article from two years ago on medical malpractice in the comments section of a blog. It is an…
The Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun wrote yesterday about a recent report that Maryland faces a doctor shortage that may well become severe by 2015. We already have a shortage of doctors, and things will get worse? I don’t know anyone—family, friend, or client—who could not find a medical…
The Maryland Court of Special Appeals found in a 2-1 decision last month that a reduction of 30 percent in the survival chances of a woman with uterine cancer as the result of medical malpractice is not actionable as a matter of Maryland law. Marcantonio v. Moen is a case…
There is an editorial in this month’s New England Journal of Medicine on Riegel v. Medtronic, the preemption case that the Supreme Court shall soon side that has pharmaceutical and medical device companies sitting on the edge of their seats. Quick background: A man suffered injuries when a balloon catheter…