Accident lawyers can’t help but homogenize insurance companies. But the reality is that they are all very different with different models and agendas. On our Maryland car accident claim overview on our website, we provide on the bottom right-hand side a summary of our lawyers’ thoughts on dealing with 18…
I have never thought about the correlation between the severity of injury in car accidents and the amount of congestion on the highway. But it certainly makes sense that (1) traffic jams lead to more accidents because the traffic is stop-and-go, and (2) high traffic means low speeds, which means…
One interesting issue we encountered during our last trial was whether we could point out that the defense doctor was a frequent flyer for one particular insurance company in a case that did not involve the insurance company that was a party to our matter. The defendant’s IME doctor was…
Defense costs are rarely a big factor to the major insurance companies in 2011 I think there is conventional wisdom out there that insurance companies will settle cases because they fear litigation costs. I really think, on the micro-level in which Maryland accident lawyers deal, all they fear is verdicts.…
An Illinois jury awarded $1.275 million to the family of a 25-year-old woman who had almost completed her nursing degree and was killed while driving to her job at a hospital. Tired driving appeared to be the cause of the car accident: the Defendant just fell asleep and hit the…
In accident cases, our lawyers make sure we know what expert testimony defendants are will see at trial. One weapon in our discovery arsenal is a good expert interrogatory. Identify any and all experts you intend to call as witnesses, and whose reports you intend to mention and/or introduce at…
How can you make your way to jail if you kill (or nearly kill) someone on a Maryland road? A Fort Washington man who nearly killed two people was sentenced yesterday to six months in jail and a year of house arrest. The key is being drunk. Otherwise, Maryland law…
The obvious safety benefits of black boxes in cars should culminate in a decision by the feds by the end of the year to make black box data recorders mandatory in new cars. Long term, this will decrease business for car accident lawyers because universal black boxes will give manufacturers…
The hardest car accident cases to try are he said/she said accidents where there are not natural facts that make one version more likely than another. The classic example of this scenario is lane change/merger accidents. Which car came over into which lane? Even a good accident reconstructionist struggles to…
Accident Analysis and Prevention published a study of 800 car accidents involving teen drivers and tried to find the common treads: 21%:failure to see what is there to be seen 21% driving too fast 20% distracted driving (text messaging is no small culprit)