What can a client say to make a Maryland accident lawyer’s shoulders’ droop? Lots of things, of course. One of those things is certainly “I have Medicare.” A Medicare lien is more than a lien, actually. It is a superlien. That word sounds made up, but that is exactly what…
There is a popular conception that lawsuits in car accident cases are filed directly against the insurance companies. It is easy to understand the source of the confusion. The insurance company that insured the driver of the vehicle will stand behind their insured and pay any claim up to the…
We get a lot of questions about suing someone who has passed. It is not fun to sue a dead person, but you have to do what you have to do to ensure a recovery for your client. Thankfully, you are suing the estate almost invariably in name only and…
We have heard some version of this story hundreds of times: client gets into an accident and hires a lawyer they either found in the yellow pages, on television, or from a “friend of a friend.” After some time passes, they realize that while their lawyer may be a nice…
Many of our Maryland accident lawyers’ clients were injured in a car accident while on the job. This means the plaintiff has three accident claims under Maryland law: PIP, third party liability, and workers’ compensation. Generally, a Maryland accident lawyer wants to present the PIP claim before the workers’ compensation…
The New York Times has an article on how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration chose not to make public hundreds of pages of research and warnings about the relationship between cell phones and car accidents. Why? Higher-ups at the NHTSA claim that the motivating force was concerns about angering…
In MAIF v. Baxter, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals ruled that Maryland law does not require a car insurer to provide uninsured motorist coverage to an uninsured stranger/pedestrian who is struck by a car driven by a person excluded under the insurer’s policy. Basically, the court found that the…
Howard County is trying to do its part to prevent auto accidents in Maryland: an executive order has been issued that prohibits Howard County employees from sending or reading texts or e-mails while driving. “The research and statistics are there: distracted driving causes accidents,” County Executive Ken Ulman said in…
Sandy Waterman’s Virginia Injury Attorney Blog points out that under Virginia law, Virginia injury lawyers can mention the ad damnum amount – the amount sought by Plaintiff’s lawyer in the complaint. The problem with this rule is that it uses accident lawyers’ form requests which usually seek as much as…
The Auto Negligence Section of the Maryland Association for Justice is putting on a seminar for Maryland accident lawyers on January 7, 2009. The speaker will be Miller & Zois’ Rod Gaston on the topic of defense medical examinations. The dinner meeting is at: That’s Amore Restaurant 10400 Little Patuxent…