The Maryland Court of Special Appeals had occasion this month to consider what makes up a resident relative for uninsured motorist coverage in Mundey v. Erie Insurance Group. Here, The Maryland intermediate appellate court found a Prince George’s County man who had been living with his grandmother in Waldorf, Maryland…
Psychologist David Ball has published a second edition of his book on damages called, appropriately, Damages. The book costs $85 (only $35 in 2017). The first edition was a similar price, felt, and looked like a thin, big print paperback. But looks are deceiving in this case. The book is…
Newsday reported on Sunday that a young victim killed in a drunk driving accident, seventeen-year-old Donny Ray Harris Jr., will be the first drunken driving victim in the state of Georgia remembered with an official highway marker, erected under recent state law governor Sonny Perdue signed just 13 days before…
The Baltimore Sun reported the implementation of an ordered procedural change for a nonfunctioning traffic light after two teenagers were killed in an auto accident in Columbia, Maryland. Howard County police are now requiring officers to stay at nonfunctioning signals until they are fixed or until a stop sign or…
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that plaintiff’s attorney Marc Bern sued Random House in U.S. District Court in Manhattan alleging that his clients purchased James Frey’s now-famous “A Million Little Pieces.” Plaintiff’s attorney stated that they based the claim for failure “to conduct a reasonable investigation or inquiry regarding…
The Baltimore Sun reported this week that Baltimore County judge sentenced a man to three years in prison for crashing through a concrete barrier last January on the Baltimore Beltway and killing a construction worker described as a hardworking man who had taken overtime shifts on the Beltway project to…
The burden is on the plaintiff in Maryland in an uninsured or underinsured motorist claim to prove that the negligent car, truck, or motorcycle was uninsured or underinsured. The attorney’s inability to establish a lack of insurance is fatal to an uninsured motorist claim. Some jurisdictions, such as Texas, realize…
A Prince George’s County undercover narcotics police officer who shot and killed an unarmed college student, who he chased from Prince George’s County, Maryland to Fairfax County, Virginia, was held responsible for his wrongful death yesterday by a jury that awarded $3.7 million to the family of the man who…
Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran announced this week the guilty pleas of three sisters indicted in a scheme to defraud the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund (MAIF) of over $65,000. MAIF said that more could have been stolen but “paper records” from before 1994 have been destroyed. The sisters schemed…
The Maryland Daily Record follows up on an interesting story that I first saw in Washington Post editorial back in August. Unlike the U.S. Supreme Court, Maryland Court of Appeals judges have a mandatory retirement age of 70. Three judges – Dale R. Cathell, Irma S. Raker, and Alan M.…