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Maryland Accident Law Blog

News and information about personal-injury and medical malpractice law.
By Jack Lebowitz, Esq. and Vadim Mzhen, Esq.

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Last Entry: March 30, 2011 at 01:00:12

$10M Montgomery County Wrongful Death Lawsuit Accuses Police of Excessive Use of Force

Posted on March 30, 2011
The family of Emmanuel O. Okutuga wants the Montgomery County Police Department to pay them $10 million for his Maryland wrongful death. The 26-year-old Bowie State University student was fatally shot by police in Silver Spring outside the City Place...

7-Year-Old Girl Injured in Dundalk, Maryland Dog Attack Sustained Severe Facial Injuries

Posted on March 26, 2011
According to the mother of Amanda Mitchell, the 7-year-old girl will likely have to undergo several surgeries for the severe facial injuries she sustained when she was attacked by two American Bull Dogs earlier this month. The two dogs have...

$5M Maryland Tractor-Trailer Accident Lawsuit Seeks Damages for Man's Wrongful Death

Posted on March 21, 2011
The family of King W. Mungai has filed a $5 million Maryland wrongful death lawsuit against trucker Gordon Scott Barnes and his employer Cargo Transporters. Mungai, a College of Southern Maryland student, was killed in January 2009 when the Toyota...

$3.3M Prince George?s County Pedestrian Accident Awarded Over Woman?s Maryland Wrongful Death

Posted on March 14, 2011
A jury has awarded the family of Kelay Smith $3.3 million against the state of Maryland for her Prince George?s County pedestrian accident death. Kelay, 26, died when she was hit by a driver while walking on the 5700 block...

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Preventing Maryland Car Crashes: State Senate Approves Ban on Reading Text Messages While Driving

Posted on March 09, 2011
Two years after Maryland lawmakers banned drivers from writing text messages while operating a motor vehicle, the state Senate gave its final approval to a bill banning the reading of texts while driving. Considering that, according to the National Safety...

Maryland Wrong Death Lawsuit in 2008 Medevac Crash Blames FAA for Traffic Control Negligence

Posted on March 04, 2011
17-year-old Ashley Younger?s mom is seeking Maryland wrongful death damages from the Federal Aviation Administration. Younger was one of four people that died in the September 27, 2008 medevac helicopter crash in District Heights. At the time of the Prince...

$10M Prince George?s County Wrongful Death Lawsuit Seeks Damages Over Man?s Fatal Stabbing

Posted on February 27, 2011
The mother of George Harrison Cooper III is suing Prince George?s County officials and the owners and operators of the CFE Event Center for his Maryland wrongful death. The 25-year-old Washington DC man was murdered last August during a stabbing...

Staff Was Inattentive on The Night of Patient Murder at Jessup Psychiatric Hospital, Says Maryland Health Investigators

Posted on February 22, 2011
An investigation by Maryland health investigators into the September 2010 murder of psychiatric patient Susan Sachs by fellow patient El Soudani El-Wahhabi at the Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center has revealed that employees at the maximum-security psychiatric facility may have...

Columbia Man Files Third Lawsuit Against Police Alleging Howard County Police Brutality

Posted on February 19, 2011
Last year, our Baltimore Maryland accident lawyers reported on the story of Melvin Yates, a Columbia man who filed a $50 million federal lawsuit suing Howard County, Police Chief William McMahon, and three officers for civil rights violations and including...

The Fight Against Distracted Driving: Baltimore County Lawmaker Pushes for Tougher Cell Phone Driving Law

Posted on February 16, 2011
According to Maryland lawmaker James Malone, the state?s law regarding handheld cell phones while driving is not tough enough. Delegate Malone, a Democrat from Baltimore County, is supporting a bill that would make using a handheld cell phone while operating...

Retired Teacher Shot to Death in Glen Burnie Shopping Mall Parking Lot

Posted on February 09, 2011
Myra Elizabeth Cason, a retired schoolteacher, was found fatally shot inside her vehicle in a Glen Burnie shopping mall parking lot. According to police, robbery appears to have been the motive. They think that the shooter was in the vehicle...

$3.1M Prince George?s County, Maryland Car Accident Verdict Awarded to a Woman Injured in a Collision with an Undercover Cop

Posted on February 04, 2011
A Maryland jury has awarded $3.1 million to Carlisa Kent, who was injured in a 2008 Calvert County car accident involving an off-duty Prince George?s County undercover narcotics cop. Kent, 45, claimed she was injured when the county-leased car driven...

Looking for Ways to Decrease the Number of Maryland Car Crashes Caused by Drunk Drivers

Posted on January 31, 2011
Our Baltimore personal injury lawyers represent many people that have been hurt in Maryland car crashes because a driver was drunk. It is unfortunate that despite laws that make it illegal for people to drive while intoxicated, and all the...

Owing Mills, Maryland Car Accidents Can Cause Hard to Detect Soft Tissue Injuries

Posted on January 25, 2011
Involvement in a Maryland car crash can lead to all sorts of painful injuries, including spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, broken bones, and organ damage. Another common injury that occurs, but can be hard to detect at first, is...

$270 Baltimore Wrongful Death Lawsuit Seeks Damages Against Police Officer Charged with Man?s Murder

Posted on January 19, 2011
The family of Tyrone Brown is suing Baltimore Police officer Gahiji Tshamba for his Maryland wrongful death. They are seeking $270 million. Tshamba shot Brown dead last summer outside a Mt. Vernon night club. The Baltimore cop is charged with...

$2.4M Maryland Wrongful Death Verdict Awarded to Family of Forklift Driver Who Had Asbestos-Related Cancer

Posted on January 15, 2011
A jury has awarded $2.4 million to the family of Daniel Edwards for his Maryland wrongful death. Edwards died from mesothelioma in 2008. His families said that he developed mesothelioma lung cancer from moving bags of asbestos for six years...

Man and His 6-Year-Old Son Killed in Maryland Car Accident

Posted on January 11, 2011
Kent Island residents Joseph Michael "Mike" Hein and his 6-year-old son Mikey have died from injuries they sustained during a Bowie, Maryland car accident on Route 5. Hein, 52, and his son were reportedly riding their 2002 Hyundai Accent...

Carroll County Car Accident Death Caused by Tire that Came Off Truck

Posted on January 05, 2011
A woman was killed in a Carroll County auto accident on Tuesday evening when her vehicle was struck by a tire that came off a Chevrolet Silverado truck. Elisabeth Catherine Osorio died at the Westminster, Maryland traffic crash site on...

No CO Detector in Rowhouse Where Fatal Baltimore Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Occurred

Posted on December 29, 2010
According to The Baltimore Sun, Department of Housing and Community Development assistant commissioner Eric Booker says the rowhouse that was the scene of a deadly Baltimore carbon monoxide poisoning accident did not have a CO detector even though one should...

$3.25M Montgomery County, Maryland Wrongful Death Lawsuit Seeks Damages from Bar Over 2008 Drunk Driving Crash that Killed 10-Year-Old

Posted on December 21, 2010
The family of Jazmine Warr is suing Dogfish Head Alehouse owner JMGM Group LLC for her Maryland wrongful death. The 10-year-old girl died from injuries she sustained during a Montgomery County car accident in on Interstate 270 August 2008. Her...

20-Year-Old Survivor of 2008 Maryland Medevac Crash Sues FAA for $50M

Posted on December 16, 2010
20-year-old Jordan Wells is suing the Federal Aviation Administration for Maryland personal injury. The Waldorf resident is the only one to survive the 2008 Medevac crash involving a Maryland State Police helicopter in District Heights. She is seeking $50 million...

Baltimore County Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Incident Kills 2 People and Sickens At Least 10 Others

Posted on December 15, 2010
According to Baltimore County Fire Department Divisional Chief Michael Robinson, the rental house in Pikesville where Nelvin Salguero and Enael Lemus died from carbon monoxide poisoning on Sunday was not equipped with a CO detector. County ordinance requires that a...

Maryland Fire Deaths of Two Frostburg State University Students Caused by Overheated Pipe

Posted on December 07, 2010
Investigators are now saying that the apartment fire that killed Frostburg State University students Alyssa Salazar, 20, and Evan Kullberg, 23, occurred because of an overheated flue pipe. The fatal Maryland fire occurred early Friday. According to the state fire...

Family of Baltimore Bicyclist Settles Maryland Tanker Truck Accident Lawsuit Over His Wrongful Death

Posted on December 02, 2010
The family of John R. "Jack" Yates has settled their Baltimore truck accident lawsuit with Potts & Callahan Inc. and tanker truck driver Michael Dale Chandler. Yates, 67, died on August 4, 2009 when his bicycle got stuck in the...

72-Year-Old Hagerstown Woman Dies from Maryland Car Accident on Interstate 70

Posted on November 30, 2010
Olga Liselotte Melton, a 72-year-old Hagerstown woman, was killed in a Maryland traffic crash on Saturday night on Interstate 70. Melton was riding in the front seat of a car driven by Helmut John Frick when their vehicle struck an...

Salmonella Outbreak at Frederick County, Maryland Nursing Home Strikes 8 People

Posted on November 24, 2010
The Frederick County Health Department says that eight people recently fell ill with Salmonella at the Homewood at Crumland Farms nursing home. One person who had to be hospitalized after developing Salmonella died afterward. The assisted living facility?s nursing home...

$1.5 Million Maryland Personal Injury Lawsuit Filed Against Howard County Following Alleged Physical Assault by High School Assistant Football Coach

Posted on November 16, 2010
Dan Mason is suing Howard County?s Board of Education for Maryland personal injury. Mason, whose son Nicholas "Neko" Rynn-Mason used to play football at Oakland Mills High School in Columbia, Maryland, claims that assistant football coach Brian Henderson physically assaulted...

Update: Question 2 on the Maryland Ballot Passes

Posted on November 15, 2010
In an earlier post, our Maryland car accident lawyers explained why we believed Marylanders should vote to pass Question 2 which increased Maryland District Court?s jurisdiction to $15,000.00. On November 2, 2010, 1,542,546 Marylanders cast a vote on the issue...

Carroll County, Maryland Injury Lawsuit Seeks Damages for E.Coli Infection from Unpasteurized Apple Cider

Posted on November 11, 2010
In Carroll County Circuit court, Baltimore resident Nicholas Fickel is suing Baugher?s Orchard and Farm for Maryland personal injury. Fickel says he became ill after consuming Baugher?s unpasteurized apple cider last month. Fickel says that his E. coli infection caused...

Man Assaulted at Westport Light Rail Station in Baltimore, Maryland Dies From Injuries

Posted on November 08, 2010
The 44-year-old man who was physically assaulted at the Westport light rail station last month has died from his Baltimore injuries. Winslow Thomas, who managed to walk to a home after the attack on October 22, received treatment at Maryland...