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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

Maryland Family Files Medical Malpractice Complaint In Woman?s Blood Clot-Related Death

Posted on January 17, 2008
In Maryland, the surviving family members of Nicole Letrice Smith,22, filed a medical malpractice complaint saying that the improper medical care that Smith received at Union Memorial Hospital following a 2006 car accident was the cause of her death. The complaint was filed with the state?s Health Care Alternative Dispute Resolution Office and the family plans to file a medical malpractice lawsuit...

NTSB Says Design Error Caused Deadly 2007 Minneapolis Bridge Collapse

Posted on January 15, 2008
The National Transportation Safety Board says that a design flaw is what led to undersized gusset plates holding the steel beams on Interstate 35-W bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota to snap and the bridge to collapse into the Mississippi River last August...

Injured Maryland Father Mourns the Deaths of his Wife and Four Children in Drunk Driving Accident

Posted on January 11, 2008
Daniel Griffin Jr. may be physically recovering from the injuries that he sustained in a deadly car crash involving a drunk driver in Ohio on December 30, but his life will never be the same. Griffin lost his wife 36-year-old wife Bethany and four of his children, Jordan Griffin, 10, Vadie Griffin, 8 weeks, Haley Burkman, 10, and Lacie Burkman, 7 in the fatal crash...

Multiple Failures by Cedars-Sinai Led to Heparin Overdose of Dennis Quaid?s Twins, Says State Probe

Posted on January 10, 2008
Movie star Dennis Quaid says that Cedars Sinai Medical Center was not forthcoming about its role in the accidental Heparin overdose of his newborn twins. . Quaid?s allegations follows the California Department of Public Health?s release of a 20-page report regarding the medical center?s handling of pediatric patients...

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Motorcyclist Dies in Crofton, Maryland After Collision with SUV

Posted on January 08, 2008
In Anne Arundel County, Maryland, a 52-year-old motorcyclist died yesterday evening after being struck by a Toyota 4-Runner on Defense Highway in Crofton. John Carlton Winner, a Bowie resident, was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center where he was pronounced dead...

Window Washer Who Fell 47 Stories Will File Personal Injury Lawsuit

Posted on January 04, 2008
The man who survived the force of gravity when he fell 47 stories while getting ready to wash the windows of a Manhattan building plans to file a personal injury lawsuit against the company that installed the scaffolding that broke, as well as the skyscraper?s management company...

Maryland Court Rules on Cancer Patient?s Wrongful Death, Saying There Was No Negligence in Missed Cancer Diagnosis

Posted on January 03, 2008
A divided Maryland Court of Special Appeals says there is insufficient evidence to show that medical malpractice caused the death of Sherri Schaefer, who died of uterine cancer in 2005. She was diagnosed with the disease in 2001. Schaefer?s husband, Charles Marcantonio, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Dr...

Family Says They Will Sue Cigna HealthCare for Daughter?s Transplant Delay

Posted on December 28, 2007
The family of Nataline Sarkisyan, a 17-year-old teenager who died just hours after CIGNA HealthCare reversed its decision and agreed to pay for her liver transplant, says they will sue the health insurer for her wrongful death. Nataline had been fighting leukemia...

Truck Safety Advocates? Lawsuit Wants to Limit the Number of Hours Truckers Can Work

Posted on December 27, 2007
In Washington D.C. on Thursday, truck safety advocates asked a federal court to block a ruling by the Transportation Department that lets commercial truckers work longer hours. The Bush Administration had upped the number of hours that truck drivers could work without going on a break to 11 hours (prior to this rule, truck drivers were required to stop and rest after 10 hours)...

Pedestrian Fatalities Spur Call for Maryland Counties to Implement Safety Initiatives

Posted on December 23, 2007
In 2006, 96 pedestrians died in traffic accidents on Maryland?s roads. There are four areas where 70% of the fatalities occurred: Montgomery County, Baltimore County, Prince George?s County, and Baltimore City. Maryland law mandates that drivers yield to pedestrians...

Family of Slain New York Times Reporter David Rosenbaum Settles Medical Malpractice Lawsuit with Howard University Hospital in Washington D.C.

Posted on December 21, 2007
In Washington D.C., Howard University Hospital and Daniel and Dorothy Rosenbaum, the adult children of deceased New York Times reporter David Rosenbaum, have reached a settlement in the medical malpractice and negligence lawsuit filed against D.C. emergency workers and the hospital...

Runaway Trailers Cause Catastrophic Injuries and Accidents in the United States

Posted on December 20, 2007
The Los Angeles Times says that there have been some 540 serious motor vehicle accidents involving runaway trailers in the United States since 2000. Hundreds of people have sustained injuries in these crashes, which usually involve at least one helpless victim getting caught in the wake of an out-of-control trailer...

Maryland Girl is Third Attack Victim on an MTA Bus This Month

Posted on December 19, 2007
A teenager was stabbed in the arm on a Maryland Transit Administration bus No. 51 in Maryland yesterday. Baltimore police arrested two juveniles in connection to the assault. The assault occurred near Mondawmin Mall when a fight broke out in the back of the bus...

Deadly Fire Truck Collision in Baltimore, Maryland Leaves Three People Dead

Posted on December 12, 2007
Three people died in Baltimore on Sunday when their SUV was hit by a Baltimore City fire truck at the intersection of Clarks Lane and Park Heights Avenue. The deadly crash happened after 3 am when a ladder truck, rushing to the scene of an apartment building fire struck the Nissan SUV...

Family of Murdered Baltimore Woman Files $14 Million Wrongful Death Lawsuit

Posted on December 11, 2007
The family of Shirley Cooper, a 72-year-old Baltimore resident who was murdered at the Temple Gardens apartment complex, has filed a $14 million wrongful death lawsuit against ETG Associates and Roizman Development because of the inadequate security that allegedly allowed an intruder to kill Shirley on June 2...

Maryland Woman Dies in ?Freak? Tractor-Trailer Crash in Montgomery County

Posted on December 10, 2007
Silver Spring resident Norma Almeraya-Soria, 35, died on November 21 after she was hit by a tractor-trailer in Montgomery County, Maryland. Almeraya-Soria was on the curb near the sidewalk at the intersection of Columbia Pike and Stewart Lane in Silver Spring when the axle of a tractor-trailer trying to make a turn broke...

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