The New York Times reports on a new World Health Organization and UNICEF report that found that childhood accidents account for approximately 830,000 deaths annually around the world. Just an incredible statistic. Injury accidents are to blame for 40% of childhood deaths in developing countries. Car crashes were the leading…
The Maryland Retailers Association got a $276,268 check from IWIF Workers’ Compensation Insurance. Why is a workers’ compensation insurance company – the largest provider of workers’ compensation insurance in Maryland – paying this retailers association? The payment is a group safety dividend check for controlling losses and preventing workplace injuries…
Workers’ Compensation Section of the Maryland Association for Justice (formerly the Maryland Trial Lawyers Association) will present a “beyond the basics” on Maryland’s workers’ compensation seminar on November 11, 2008 at 1:00p.m.-4:30p.m. at Sheraton City Center on 101 W. Fayette Street in Baltimore, Maryland. The topics of this Maryland workers’…
Car insurance is mandatory throughout the country, including Maryland. Yet you would be amazed how many uninsured motorist claims we see every week. As many as 20% of Americans do not have car insurance. The numbers in Maryland have not been estimated in years (that I have seen, anyway) but…
Most car accidents occur with injuries. Maryland accident lawyers typically do not get involved in such cases, leaving accident victims to deal with handling the property damage claim and getting a rental car themselves. Convincing the insurance company to provide a rental car is a hassle in some Maryland accident…
The Baltimore Injury Lawyer Blog talks about a trial where the jury awarded all the Plaintiff’s medical bills but awarded nothing for the client’s pain and suffering. This was not the type of case we would appeal because while our lawyers were not thrilled with the verdict, the client was extremely…
The Baltimore Sun has an interesting story on balancing compassion and victim’s rights in fatal car accidents in Maryland. These are tough issues. What should be the criminal penalties for those who negligently (distinguished from drunk for our purposes here) kill others in fatal car accidents? Should criminal courts admit…
The Maryland Court of Special Appeals today affirmed summary judgment against the Plaintiffs in the case of Pulliam v. Motor Vehicle Administration, a tragic case involving the death of a man and his three children in a rear-end car accident at the intersection of Butterfly Lane and Jefferson Pike in…
Maryland was one of 32 states that decreased their number of drunk driving fatalities, according to a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report issued yesterday. Drunk driving deaths in Maryland declined by 10, a 5.3% decrease. The national average was a 3.7% decrease. This is good news. The bad news…
Hit and run and phantom vehicle cases can be a challenge for Maryland accident lawyers. But good lawyers can obtain compensation for their clients in the vast majority of cases. In Maryland, if you are injured in an accident as the result of the negligence of a hit-and-run driver, you…