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Personal Injury Law

Maryland Accident Law Blog

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

Post Frequency: 2.9/day

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

NTSB Calls on FMCSA to Do More to FIght Trucker Fatigue and Prevent Deadly Truck Crashes

Posted on October 03, 2008
Following its findings that the cause of a 2005 semi-trailer? bus crash in Wisconsin that claimed five lives and injured over 30 people happened because the truck driver had fallen asleep while driving, the National Transportation Safety Board is recommending...

NTSB Says Maryland Helicopter Involved in Weekend Crash That Killed Four Victims Did Not Have Terrain-Awareness System Equipment

Posted on September 30, 2008
The National Transportation Board Says that the Maryland State Medical Rescue Helicopter that crashed into Prince George?s County Park on Saturday night was not carrying terrain-awareness system that could have notified the pilot that he was hovering precariously close to...

Baltimore Bride-To-Be Dies in Maryland Tractor-Trailer Accident

Posted on September 29, 2008
A Maryland woman who was going to get married on September 20 died a week before her wedding when the limousine that she and her friends were riding in on the night of her bachelorette party was struck by a...

US Coast Guard?s 2007 Recreational Boating Statistics Reports 10 Deaths in Maryland

Posted on September 25, 2008
In Maryland, 10 people died and 120 people were injured in boating accidents last year. These latest figures were released this year by the US Coast Guard and indicate a slight increase from the 8 Maryland boating fatalities that...

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Carney Man Pleads Guilty To Negligent Manslaughter in 2007 Maryland Boating Accident that Killed an Ellicott Man

Posted on June 12, 2008
In Baltimore County Circuit Court last week, William C. Spittel was sentenced to six months in jail and a $2,500 fine after he pled guilty to one count of negligent manslaughter by vessel. Spittel was the operator of a 24-foot...

Six-Year-Old Girl Suffers Third Degree Burns From Live Wire At Prince George?s County Bus Stop

Posted on June 12, 2008
In Maryland, Prince George?s County officials are trying to figure out how there managed to be an exposed live wire at a Chillum bus stop. A six-year-old girl suffered electrical shock and ?severe? third-degree burns on Saturday after she grabbed...

Scott Peterson Wrongful Death Civil Trial to Proceed

Posted on June 06, 2008
Scott Peterson, the man convicted of murdering his wife Laci Peterson and their unborn son Connor Peterson, will have to stand trial again?this time for a civil wrongful death lawsuit filed by Laci?s parents. The ruling to have the trial...

Maryland Personal Injury Lawsuit For Paralysis Injury Sustained In 2004 Randallstown High School Shooting Will Be Tried in Baltimore County

Posted on June 05, 2008
In Maryland, the personal injury lawsuit filed by Edna "Peggy" Payton-Henderson, the mother of William "Tipper" Thomas III, the high school football player who became paralyzed from the waist down after being injured during a 2004 shooting at Randallstown High...

Tejano Star Emilio?s Company is Sued For Personal Injury Over Bus Crash

Posted on June 03, 2008
Two people are suing Emilio Inc, the company of Tejano star Emilio Navaira for injuries they sustained during a tour bus crash in Texas in March. Navaira, who was driving the bus, lost control of the vehicle that slammed into...

Planned Parenthood In Washington DC Sued For $50 Million By Mother Of Teenager That Had Botched Abortion

Posted on May 30, 2008
The mother of a teenaged girl is suing a Planned Parenthood in Washington DC for $50 million over a failed abortion. Shantese Butler, was just 13-years-old when her mother Emma Jean Butler took her to Planned Parenthood Metropolitan in September...

Frederick, Maryland Parents File $145 Million for Son?s Wrongful Death By Taser

Posted on May 29, 2008
In Frederick County, Maryland, the family of Jarrel Gray, the 20-year-old man who died last year after he was shocked with a police Taser twice is suing the Frederick County Sheriff?s Office, Sheriff Chuck Jenkins, and Corporal Torres for Gray?s...

Pregnant Maryland Woman and Her Baby Sustain Fatal Injuries in Tractor-Trailer Accident

Posted on May 27, 2008
In Anne Arundel County, Maria J. Lizama-Sanchez, 31, died last week after the minivan she was riding in was struck by a tractor-trailer. Lizama-Sanchez, was about 7 months pregnant, and doctors at Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore had to...

Prince George County Residents Calling for Speed Bumps After Car Hits Child Bicyclist

Posted on May 24, 2008
In a South Laurel neighborhood in Prince George County, Maryland, residents are renewing their efforts to get officials to install speed bumps after a 7-year-old bicyclist was hit by a speeding motor vehicle earlier this month. The boy sustained serious...

Survey Shows that 1 out of every 3 Motorists in Maryland Text Message While Driving

Posted on May 22, 2008
A survey by Vlingo, the voice recognition software company, found that one out of every three drivers in Maryland text messages when driving. Maryland ranks fourth among US states with the worst text messaging driver offenders. 36% of all Maryland...

Family of Baltimore Police Officer that Was Shot By Fellow Cop Will File Maryland Wrongful Death Case

Posted on May 20, 2008
The surviving family members of Baltimore Police Officer Norman Stamp say they will file a Maryland wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Baltimore. Stamp, 65, was killed after being shot by another Baltimore cop during a brawl outside the...

Truck Carriers and Manufacturers Go to Washington DC to Push for Larger Trucks

Posted on May 16, 2008
About 30 truck carriers, manufacturers, and shippers are in Washington D.C. this week. They are trying to persuade the US Congress to adopt a ?Demonstration Project? that would allow larger trucks to operate in certain U.S. states. The coalition of...

Maryland Family Files $207 Million Federal Lawsuit For Teen?s Wrongful Death at Reform School

Posted on May 15, 2008
In Baltimore, the family of Isaiah Simmons III, 17, has filed a $207 million wrongful death lawsuit against the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services, the Bowling Brook Preparatory School, and seven counselors at the now-closed private reform school...

Former Supreme Court Nominee Robert Bork Settles Slip and Fall Accident Lawsuit With Yale Club

Posted on May 13, 2008
Former Yale Law School Professor Robert Bork has agreed to a $1 million slip and fall lawsuit he had filed for injuries he suffered at the Yale Club of New York City in 2006. The details of the settlement are...

Maryland Settles Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed By Family of Fatally Beaten Detainee

Posted on May 08, 2008
The Maryland Attorney General?s Office and the family of a Randallstown man that died after being beaten by correctional officers inside Baltimore?s Central Booking and Intake Center in 2005 have reached a $500,000 wrongful death settlement. Smoot, the father of...

Poor Hospital Standards Across The United States Endanger Lives

Posted on May 07, 2008
Congressional researches say that the federal government should be doing more to protect patients from contracting infections at hospitals. According to the Government Accountability Office, the federal government needs to establish proper standards for hospitals to reduce infections...

Maryland Takes Part In Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month

Posted on May 05, 2008
Federal, state, and local agencies have designated the month of May as Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month to remind drivers and motorcyclists to ?Share the Road? safely and keep motorcyclists safe. In 2007, one out of every nine traffic accident fatalities...

Hospital Settles Medication Error Medical Malpractice Lawsuit For $5.1 Million

Posted on April 30, 2008
In California, San Francisco General Hospital has agreed to pay $5.1 million to settle a medical malpractice lawsuit filed by a patient who was seriously injured after hospital staff gave him the wrong medication. San Francisco supervisors approved the settlement...

Maryland Welder Awarded $3 Million for Crushed Leg Injury

Posted on April 29, 2008
A jury in Baltimore County is ordering Keibler-Thompson Co. to pay a Maryland welder over $3 million for a crushed leg injury he sustained at work in 1999. James Morris, 58, was seriously injured on his first day working as...

Silver Springs Janitor May Appeal Ruling Dismissing Her Personal Injury Lawsuit Against Smithsonian Executive

Posted on April 27, 2008
In federal court, a judge has dismissed the personal injury lawsuit against Smithsonian Business Ventures Vice President Jeanny Kim. The plaintiff in the lawsuit, custodian and Silver Springs resident Mary T. Majano, had accused Kim of assault. The alleged injury...

Wal-Mart Drops Lawsuit Against Traumatic Brain Injury Victim for Damages from Truck Accident Case

Posted on April 25, 2008
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has dropped its lawsuit to collect more than $400,000 in health-care reimbursement from an ex-employee. Deborah Shank has a traumatic brain injury and now lives in a nursing home in Missouri. Shank, 52, sustained her catastrophic injury...

Baltimore Teenagers Implicated in Bus Beating Case Plan to Sue Maryland Transit System For Damages

Posted on April 25, 2008
The lawyers for two Baltimore students that were implicated in the beating of a passenger on a transit bus say their clients are going to sue the Maryland Transit Authority, the Baltimore school system, and the bus driver. Each boy...

Howard County Residents Says Stretch of US 1 in Jessup Where Four People Died in Car-Truck Collision is Scene of Many Maryland Auto Accidents

Posted on April 23, 2008
A deadly Maryland car accident during yesterday?s rush hour on US 1 in Jessup involving a truck and a Nissan Altima has left four people dead and a 4-year-old girl and two adults injured. The fatalities are an infant girl,...

Father Sues Washington D.C. After His Daughter?s Decomposing Body is Found in Her Mother?s Home

Posted on April 15, 2008
Norman C. Penn, Jr., the father of 16-year-old Brittany Jacks, is suing the District for $25 million following her death. Brittany decomposing body was discovered last January, along with the bodies of her three sisters, ages 5, 6, and 11,...

Virginia Tech Shooting Victims? Families Agree to $11 Million Settlement

Posted on April 14, 2008
Nearly one year after the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech that left 32 people dead and two dozen others injured, the families of most of the victims have agreed to settle with the state for $11 million. By agreeing to...

Maryland State Police and Three Maryland Counties Sued For Veteran?s Wrongful Death

Posted on April 09, 2008
The wife and parents of James E. Dean, 29, and Afghanistan combat veteran, has filed a $20 million wrongful death lawsuit against the Maryland State Police, St. Mary?s County, Calvert County, and Charles County. A Maryland state trooper shot Dean...

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