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New Federal Court Disability Insurance Opinion 21 Aug 2013 | 12:06 am
Last month, in Curry v. Trustmark Insurance, a Maryland District Court judge made an interesting ruling in a breach of contract case involving disability payments. The judge granted summary judgment f...
This Is the Most Read Personal Injury Lawyer Blog 20 Aug 2013 | 08:03 pm
According to Alexa, this is the most read personal injury lawyer blog in the country. I really don't have anything else to say about that except I really do appreciate the people who read this blog, ...
Engineering Malpractice Claims in Maryland: New Opinion 19 Aug 2013 | 11:25 pm
If you want to file a medical malpractice claim in Maryland, you have to jump through a 1,000 hoops and, if you skip even one, it might be fatal to your case. In Heavenly Days Crematorium v. Harris Sm...
Late Summer Tort News Round-Up 13 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
I have not done a decent roundup in a while! Here we go: Walter Olson at Overlawyered provides a Maryland law roundup. Yes, this is a roundup within a round-up but most of these are most germane to o...
Malpractice Suits in Maryland Require Form Over Substance... Again 13 Aug 2013 | 01:39 am
Really tough opinion for medical malpractice plaintiffs in Maryland was issued in U.S. District Court last week. Tangent #1: Why Isn’t This Case in State Court? As a preliminary matter, it is comple...
Malpractice Myths | Defensive Medicine Revisited 9 Aug 2013 | 09:25 pm
I used to write a lot on this blog about the myths that surround medical malpractice in Maryland and throughout this country. I've largely jumped off the soapbox because I realized something: no one i...
Even I'm Starting to Turn on Speed Cameras 8 Aug 2013 | 08:59 pm
My position has long been that speed and red light cameras at least probably save lives. Why? I've painstakingly dug through the research, analyzed the underlying data, and made a thoughtful and infor...
How Safe Is Talking on the Phone While Driving? 6 Aug 2013 | 11:33 pm
We can all agree that texting while driving is a death wish. The bigger question engendering more real debate is cell phone use in general. I have always been in the camp that the big issue is distrac...
We Can Still Serve Drunks in Maryland Who We Think Might Kill Someone and That's Okay 26 Jul 2013 | 01:05 am
Lots of big opinions coming down from the Maryland Court of Appeals lately. In a tight decision- much tighter than I would have predicted - our high court affirmed long standing Maryland laws that pro...
$55 Million Turns to Zero | Baltimore Malpractice Verdict Reversed 24 Jul 2013 | 01:42 am
Last summer, we were talking about the $55 million cerebral palsy malpractice verdict against Johns Hopkins. This summer the verdict - which was reduced to $28 million - is hanging on a thread after t...
