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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.

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

Washington D.C. Cracks Down On 23 Landlords with Lawsuit for Code Violations Due To Poor Conditions on the Premises

Posted on April 08, 2008
The District is suing the 23 property owners of 71 rental buildings (46 rental homes and 25 apartment buildings) for ?egregious? code violations. It is also demanding that 13 of the properties be declared ?public nuisances? so that repairs are...

NHTSA Says Motorcycle Deaths Rose for the Ninth Straight Year In 2006

Posted on April 04, 2008
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is reporting that 4,810 motorcyclists died in deadly highway crashes in 2006?a number that grew for the ninth year in a row. Over one of every nine road fatalities in 2006 involved a motorcycle...

Retired Army Nurse Sued For Medical Malpractice Over Allegedly Spreading Hepatitis

Posted on April 03, 2008
Retired Army captain Jon Dale Jones is being sued for personal injury by several people who claim that he infected them with hepatitis. He was arrested in March on federal charges of assault and possession of a controlled substance by...

Annapolis Sued for Police Brutality

Posted on April 01, 2008
The city of Annapolis, Maryland, the Annapolis Police Department, and two Annapolis police officers have been named as the defendants of a personal injury lawsuit for police brutality. Jose Louis Meneses-Araiza and Quinton T. Smith are accusing Officer Gary Black...

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Family of Teenager Sues Bullies For Injuries Caused by Harassment, Beatings, and Threats

Posted on March 26, 2008
The parents of Billy Wolf, a 16-year-old Arkansas sophomore, are suing the teenagers that have been bullying their son for the harm he has suffered due to alleged incidents of assault and battery. Video and audio evidence document Billy being...

Pilot Sues Boeing For Personal Injuries From F-15C Breakup Jet Accident

Posted on March 25, 2008
Maj. Stephen Stilwell, an air force pilot, is suing plane manufacturer Boeing over the F-15C airplane accident that left him disfigured and with debilitating shoulder injuries. The plane was built by defense contractor McDonald Douglas, which was purchased by Boeing...

Parents of Baltimore County Teenager Sue Maryland Occupational Safety and Health Department and Others for Failure to Properly Investigate His Death

Posted on March 23, 2008
Adrienne and Robert Miranda, the parents of Joseph Miranda, have filed a personal injury lawsuit against the Maryland Occupational Safety and Health department, The Maryland Attorney General?s Office, the Hampstead Police Department, and the Federal County and Frederick County state?s...

1 Toddler and Several Others Injured When MTA Train and Van Collide in Baltimore, Maryland

Posted on March 20, 2008
An 11-month girl was injured after she was struck by a van that collided with an MTA light rail train on Thursday in Downtown Baltimore, Maryland. She was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital?s pediatric center. The driver of the van...

General Motors Settles Auto Defect Injury Claim Involving GMC Yukon

Posted on March 19, 2008
General Motors Corporation will pay an undisclosed settlement amount to California resident Michael Samardzich, whose left eye was ruptured and became permanently blind when the GMC Yukon that he was a passenger in collided with another motor vehicle on July...

Insurance Institute For Highway Safety Says Making Stronger SUV Roofs Could Save Lives During Rollover Accidents

Posted on March 13, 2008
Test results conducted by the Insurance Institute For Highway Safety found that the stronger the SUV?s roof, the lower the risks of serious injury or death. The IIHS tested 11 sport utility vehicles and found that the stronger roofs had...

Santa Clara County, CA Sheriff Says Department Accepts Responsibility for Police Car Accident That Killed Two Bicyclists

Posted on March 12, 2008
A deadly accident in Santa Clara County, California involving a deputy that fell asleep at the wheel has left two bicyclists dead and a third with a broken leg and arm. On Tuesday, Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith cried...

Mitsubishi Ordered to Pay $11 Million in Products Liability SUV Wrongful Death Case

Posted on March 07, 2008
A Florida jury has ordered Mitsubishi Motors to pay almost $11 million in wrongful death damages to the parents of a man who died when he was partially ejected from a Nativa SUV?marketed in the US as the Montero. Peter...

Two Doctors Cleared In Heath Ledger Prescription Overdose Death

Posted on March 06, 2008
The Drug Enforcement Administration says that two doctors who gave movie star Heath Ledger prescription drugs have been cleared of any wrongdoing related to the movie star?s death. Ledger was found dead in his New York apartment of a prescription medicine overdose on January 22...

Report Offers Motor Vehicle Accident Death Rates in Frederick County, Maryland Between 2001 and 2006

Posted on March 04, 2008
A recent analysis by the Frederick News-Post of deadly accidents in Frederick County, Maryland found that a total of 150 deadly crashes took place on Frederick County roads between 2001 and 2006, with Md. 75 having a death rate of three times the national average...

Consumer Product Safety Commission Reports Increase In Nursery Products-Related Infant Deaths

Posted on February 29, 2008
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a report that states the number of infant deaths (children under age 5) involving nursery products have increased significantly. According to the CPSC, 66,400 children were seriously hurt in nurseries in 2006...

Ruth?s Chris Steak House Employees in Baltimore, Maryland File $64 Million Personal Injury Lawsuit Over Carbon Monoxide Leak

Posted on February 28, 2008
In Baltimore Circuit Court on Tuesday, 16 Ruth?s Chris Steak House employees filed a $64 million personal injury lawsuit against TPOB Pier Five LLC, the company that owns the Pier 5 Hotel where the Inner Harbor steak restaurant is located. The plaintiffs claim that they were hospitalized because they were exposed to high levels of carbon monoxide while working at the restaurant...

At Least Four Children Are Injured After Maryland School Bus Accident in Prince George?s County

Posted on February 27, 2008
In Maryland, the driver of a school bus and three to five middle school student passengers were injured this morning after the bus they were riding in flipped over in Riverdale in Prince George?s County. There were 45 passengers on the bus that was headed for William Wirt Middle School...

Maryland Residents Are Among Lacrosse Team Plaintiffs Suing Duke University for Handling of High Profile Rape Case

Posted on February 22, 2008
38 members of the 2006 Duke Lacrosse team and 9 family members are suing Duke University and the North Carolina city of Durham for their handling of the high profile 2006 rape case that wrongly charged three men with raping a woman. The plaintiffs say they that they suffered invasion of privacy, emotional damage, and other injuries because the University abandoned them and ignored key evidence showing that the rape charges were fabricated...

Woman Sues Ocean City, Maryland Hotel Over Carbon Monoxide Deaths of Her Husband and Daughter

Posted on February 21, 2008
In Maryland?s U.S. District Court in Baltimore, Pennsylvania resident Yvonne Boughter filed a wrongful death lawsuit over the carbon monoxide deaths of her husband, Patrick J. Boughter, 40, and his 10-year-old daughter Kelly. She is seeking $30 million in damages...

Eight People Killed in Maryland After Being Hit By Car During Street-Race

Posted on February 17, 2008
At least eight people are dead and five others injured in Accokeek, Maryland, after a car accidentally plowed into a group of people watching an illegal car race on the side of Route 210?also known as Indian Head Highway?at around 3:30 in the morning in Prince George?s County...

Missing Maryland Construction Foreman Discovered Dead in Shaft in Baltimore

Posted on February 15, 2008
The body of Wayne Kerr, a Maryland construction foreman employed by Centerline Construction Co., was found on Thursday at the bottom of a shaft in the Constellation Energy Group Headquarters in Baltimore. Kerr, 55, was last seen by coworkers on Wednesday and did not return home from work...

Baltimore Police Officer Suspended Over YouTube Video Showing Him Manhandling Teenager

Posted on February 14, 2008
Baltimore Police Officer Salvatore Rivieri was suspended this week after a video of him roughing up a 14-year-old skateboarder appeared on YouTube. In the video, Rivieri approaches a group of skateboarding teenagers. After telling them they are not allowed to skateboard at Inner Harbor, Rivieri grabbed Eric Bush, putting the teen in a headlock and threatening to strike him for his lack of respect...

Pharmacy Policies Can Lead to Prescription Errors, Injuries, and Wrongful Deaths

Posted on February 13, 2008
Prescription errors are a prevalent problem in the United States that too often leads to serious injuries and deaths. A USA Today investigation reports that corporate policies?particularly with the larger pharmacy chains, such as CVS and Walgreens?can lead to unnecessary pharmacy mistakes: ?Too many prescriptions, too few pharmacists...

Bill Proposes to Allow Sex Abuse Victims to File Injury Lawsuits in Maryland

Posted on February 08, 2008
In Maryland, Baltimore County legislator Eric M. Bromwell has introduced a bill that would extend the statute of limitations for filing sex abuse lawsuits. The bill calls for the elimination in 2009 of the statute of limitations for filing a sex abuse lawsuit...

John Ritter?s Family Takes $67 Million Wrongful Death Lawsuit to Court

Posted on February 05, 2008
Jury selection in the wrongful death of actor John Ritter began in Los Angeles County Superior Court today. Ritter died at age 54 in September 2003 after he was treated in a Burbank emergency room for a heart attack when he actually had an aortic dissection...

Baltimore Police Officer Named in $100 Million Injury Lawsuit

Posted on January 31, 2008
Baltimore Officer Jerome K. Hill has been named as the defendant in a $100 million police brutality lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed in Baltimore Circuit Court in Maryland, alleges that Hill assaulted Rosedale resident Steven Vernarelli on October 22 near Monument and Curley Streets...

Five People Are Injured in Multi-Vehicle Accident in Northeast Baltimore, Maryland

Posted on January 29, 2008
Five people were injured in Northeast Baltimore, Maryland on January 17 in a multi-vehicle collision. The accident occurred early in the morning on I-95, close to the divide with Interstate I-895. Two sports utility vehicles, a box truck, and a work van were t involved in the crash...

Former Maryland Volunteer Firefighters File Sex Abuse Lawsuit Against Anne Arundel County Government and a Local Fire Company

Posted on January 25, 2008
In Maryland, two men, former volunteer firefighters in Anne Arundel County have filed a sex abuse lawsuit claiming that Louis A. D'Camera, a former president of Odenton Volunteer Fire Company, sexually abused them on multiple occasions when they were teenage recruits...

NTSB Calls for Better Injury Accident Prevention Measures to Protect Metro Train Workers

Posted on January 24, 2008
The National Transportation Safety Board is calling for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to implement proper safeguards to protect workers on train tracks. Among its recommendations, the safety board suggested that Metro implement pre-work briefings, conduct surprise inspections, and immediately install new technology that automatically warns track employees when trains are approaching and lets train operators know that there are workers in the area...

Maryland to Close Rosewood Center After Multiple Reports of Neglect and Abuse

Posted on January 21, 2008
Rosewood Center, a Maryland facility for the developmentally disabled located in Baltimore County, will close in the next year and a half. The decision by the state to shut down the facility comes in the wake of reports of serious cases of abuse and neglect over the past several years...

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