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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

Maryland Car Crash on Route 113 Kills Four People and Injures Five Others

Posted on November 04, 2010
A catastrophic Maryland multi-vehicle vehicle accident on Route 113 on Monday afternoon has claimed the lives of four people from the same family. They are Carmelo Dominguez, 53, his wife Evelyn Morales, 48, daughter Natasha Dominguez, 23, and grandson Jose...

Frederick County, School Bus Crash Involving Injuries Went Unreported, Say Maryland State Police

Posted on October 28, 2010
Maryland State Police are investigating a Frederick County traffic crash between two school buses onThursday that they say went unreported. A number of school children reportedly sustained injuries. According to the authorities, a Littlestown School District bus collided with another...

Two Dead from Havre De Grace Fire at Harford County, Maryland Apartment Building

Posted on October 26, 2010
A second person has died from injuries sustained during a fire in Havre de Grace, Maryland. The victim is 70-year-old Helen Bernice Logan. She died of smoke inhalation. The deadly fire broke out at about 4:30am last Tuesday in Logan?s...

On Tuesday, November 2, 2010, Vot For Ballot Question 2

Posted on October 20, 2010
On November 2, 2010, voters across Maryland will be asked to answer an important question regarding Maryland?s Constitution. We encourage the residents of Maryland to VOTE FOR QUESTION 2, IN FAVOR of the Constitutional Amendment question limiting a Trial by...

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Maryland Wrongful Death Case Seeks Damages for Police Shooting of Off-Duty Cop

Posted on October 19, 2010
The widow Baltimore police officer Norman Stamp is suing Officer John Torres, a fellow cop, for Maryland wrongful death. Stamp was shot by Torres outside a strip bar on April 22, 2008. While police contend that Stamp got into a...

Maryland Medical Malpractice and Fraud Alleged in 101 Claims Against Towson Hospital

Posted on October 16, 2010
A Towson medical malpractice lawyer has filed claims on behalf of 101 patients accusing St. Joseph Medical Center and its former cardiologist Dr. Mark G. Midei of Maryland medical negligence, conspiracy, and fraud. Midei is accused of conducting hundreds of...

New Laws to Prevent Maryland Bicycle Accidents Take Effect

Posted on October 11, 2010
Maryland has several new bicycle laws that are now in effect. Lawmakers are hoping that this will decrease the number of traffic that occur each year. According to preliminary data, Maryland State Police says that 10 people were killed in...

Montgomery County Jury Awards Silver Spring Woman $2.35M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict Over Wrong Diagnosis

Posted on October 04, 2010
A jury has awarded Yesenia Rivera $2.35 million for Maryland medical malpractice. Rivera, now a 28-year-old Silver Springs woman, had to have part of a leg and a portion of a foot amputated after doctors wrongly diagnosed a kidney blockage....

Maryland Mental Hospital Patient Charged with Murder of Fellow Patient

Posted on September 27, 2010
Maryland State Police have charged El Soudani El-Wahhabi, also called Saladin Taylor, with first- and second-degree murder. El-Wahhabi, who is a patient at the at the Clifton T. Perkins mental hospital, is accused of killing Susan Sachs, who was also...

Maryland Upholds Non-Economic Damages Cap in Anne Arundel County Wrongful Death of Boy Who Drowned

Posted on September 24, 2010
The Court of Appeals has upheld a state law that limits how much plaintiffs can receive for pain and suffering. They issued their decision regarding Maryland?s damages cap in the Anne Arundel County wrongful death case involving Connor Freed, the...

Baltimore Medical Malpractice Lawsuit for Gallbladder Surgery Injuries Results in $1.1M Award

Posted on September 22, 2010
A jury has awarded a 79-year-old woman a $1.1 million Baltimore medical malpractice verdict over injuries she sustained while undergoing gallbladder surgery. In her Maryland medical malpractice lawsuit, Phyllis Rode accused Dr. Chiau-Wen Hsiao of cutting her hepatic duct while...

John Hopkins Shooting Claims Two Lives and Injures One in Baltimore, Maryland

Posted on September 18, 2010
At John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on Thursday morning, a gunman who became distraught about his mother?s medical care shot and injured a doctor before turning the gun on his mom and himself. Paul Warren Pardus the alleged shooter, and...

NHTSA Reports 547 Maryland Traffic Fatalities and 29 Washington DC Motor Vehicle Crash Deaths in 2009

Posted on September 15, 2010
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently issued its 2009 Traffic Safety Facts Research Note, which includes its motor vehicle traffic crash statistics for the year. According to the NHTSA, 33,808 people were killed in auto collisions in the US,...

Maryland Medical Malpractice?: State?s Board of Physicians Orders Three Doctor to Stop Practicing Medicine

Posted on September 07, 2010
The Maryland Board of Physicians has ordered Dr. Steven Brigham, Dr. Nicola Riley, and George Shepard Jr. to stop practicing medicine in the state. The order comes following a botched abortion last month that left an 18-year-old with a uterine...

Man Files $12 Million Maryland Personal Injury Lawsuit Against Prince George?s Hospital Alleging False Imprisonment

Posted on August 31, 2010
Joseph Wheeler is suing Prince George's Hospital Center for Maryland personal injury. He is seeking over $12 million?$9.5 million in punitive damages and $3.2 million in compensatory damages. He is also seeking damages from Broadway Security and hospital guards Donovan...

Pedestrian and Bicyclist Killed in Baltimore Tractor-Trailer Accidents

Posted on August 27, 2010
Police have identified the pedestrian killed in Thursday?s Baltimore tractor-trailer crash on Interstate 95 as Michael A. Coll, 36.The cause of the Maryland traffic crash is still under investigation. Following the deadly collision, all northbound roads were temporarily closed...

Mother?s $30 Million Maryland Wrongful Death Lawsuit Accuses Baltimore County Police of Excessive Force

Posted on August 20, 2010
Gwendolyn Cann is suing Baltimore County and six of its police officers for her son?s Maryland wrongful death. She is seeking over $30 million because she says that Baltimore police brutality resulted in the fatal shooting of 25-year-old Taevon G....

Maryland Fall Accident?: Police Probe Death of Man Discovered in Trash Chute

Posted on August 16, 2010
An autopsy conducted on the body of a man found in a downtown Baltimore apartment building trash chute indicates his injuries are ?consistent with a bad fall,? says the police department and reports the Baltimore Sun. Also, police spokesperson Anthony...

Family Members on Bike Ride Injured in Anne Arundel County Car Crash Because Motorist Allegedly Lost Control of Vehicle

Posted on August 10, 2010
Three members of a family of four who were on a bicycle ride on Sunday morning were injured in Anne Arundel County when they were hit by a car driven by a Laurel woman who lost control of her 2001...

Anne Arundel County Wrongful Death Lawsuit Claims 911 and Police Officers Botched Emergency Call

Posted on August 04, 2010
A botched 911 call and the alleged failure by Anne Arundel County police to immediately help an unconscious woman at the scene of a medical emergency are two of the reasons cited in the Maryland wrongful death lawsuit filed by...

$34 Million Baltimore Carbon Monoxide Verdict Awarded to Ruth's Chris Employees Claiming Brain Damage Against Pier Five Hotel

Posted on July 31, 2010
More than 20 Ruth?s Chris workers who say they suffered serious injuries because they were exposed to carbon monoxide at the Pier Five Hotel in 2008 have been awarded a $34 million Baltimore personal injury verdict. The steak restaurant, which...

Preventing Maryland Injuries to Children: Latest CPSC Baby Product Recalls Include Recliners, Pacifiers, Playards and Drop-Side Cribs

Posted on July 26, 2010
Our Maryland child accident attorneys work hard to obtain the financial recovery that our clients? families are owed by the manufacturers of defective products. The makers of consumer goods, especially furniture, accessories, and toys that are intended specifically for child...

Baltimore Tractor-Trailer Crash Caused by Allegedly Drowsy Truck Driver

Posted on July 20, 2010
Two truck drivers were injured during rush hour today in a Baltimore truck collision involving a box truck and a tractor-trailer. According to Maryland State Police, the traffic collision happened when a box truck rear-ended the semi-truck on the Inner...

Toddler and Teen Pedestrians Injured During East Baltimore Car Accident

Posted on July 12, 2010
A 14-year-old girl and a 3-year-old boy were injured during an East Baltimore car accident yesterday afternoon. The two children were close to the intersection of North Highland Avenue and East Fayette Street when they were hit by a car....

ATV Accidents: Number of Spinal and Head Trauma Injury Cases are Rising, Say Researchers

Posted on July 08, 2010
According to the University of Utah Department of Neurosurgery, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of severe head and spinal trauma cases involving all-terrain vehicle. Its researchers? findings, published in Neurosurgery, emphasis the need for better ATV...

Baltimore Couple Files $20 Million Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleging Wrongful Birth

Posted on July 06, 2010
Jessica Young and Antoine McLeod are accusing American Radiology Services, Dr. Karen Y. Perkins, and the Johns Hopkins Health System Corp. of Maryland medical malpractice. In their $20 million wrongful birth lawsuit, the Baltimore couple is claiming that a medical...

$1.65 Million Frederick County, Maryland Wrongful Death Award Issued to Parents of Man Who Died in Accidental Shooting

Posted on June 28, 2010
Frederick County Circuit Judge John H. Tisdale has awarded the parents of Michael Abraham Brall $1.65 million in their Maryland wrongful death lawsuit against Brian Gregory Stone. Stone accidentally shot Brall on October 25, 2007. The two men had been...

Prince George?s County Jury Awards $2.025 Million Maryland Wrongful Death Verdict to Family of Inmate Killed by Dump Truck

Posted on June 25, 2010
The family and estate of Rodney Jennings has been awarded a $2.025 Maryland wrongful death verdict against dump truck driver Wayne Goss and the state of Maryland, Jennings, 28, died in August 2007 after he was hit by a dump...

Carroll County Motorcycle Death is Third One This Year

Posted on June 22, 2010
Washington Irving Wheeler died in a Carroll County motorcycle crash on June 10. The 41-year-old was riding his bike south on Md. 30 when he was involved in a traffic collision with a Chevrolet Cavalier whose driver was attempting to...

Columbia Man Files $50 Million Maryland Police Brutality Lawsuit Against Howard County Police

Posted on June 16, 2010
Melvin Yates is suing the government of Howard County, Police Chief William McMahon, and three officers for $50 million. In his federal lawsuit, the 23-year-old is accusing the officers of beating him until he became semiconscious at his father?s memorial...

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