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Maryland personal injury related material from Miller & Zois.

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Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 15:16:36

Jailed for Refusal to Say the Pledge?

Posted on October 07, 2010
A Mississippi lawyer was jailed for five hours for refusing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. This is not the first time this lawyer has had a problem over his refusal to say the Pledge of Allegiance. In June, he was asked to leave another courtroom for refusing to recite the Pledge...

Overstating the Texting While Driving Case

Posted on October 07, 2010

Personal Injury Lawyers and Blogging

Posted on October 06, 2010
Personal injury lawyers' blogs are proliferating the web like Lindsay Lohan's legal problems. It is hard to find a malpractice or accident lawyer now without a blog. I think a lot of personal injury lawyers see this and think that the door is closed and that it is too late to build up a readership base and develop a quality presence online...

Attorneys' Fee Dispute Opinion

Posted on October 05, 2010
The Maryland Court of Special Appeals interpreted a mandatory fee dispute arbitration requirement for attorney fee disputes in the District of Columbia today. The issue is whether a personal injury law firm was entitled to 40% of Plaintiff's recovery or whether the fee increased to 50% because the "Plaintiff prevailed on appeal" clause in the retainer agreement had been triggered...

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Ranking Maryland Health Insurance Providers

Posted on October 05, 2010
Consumer Reports does just this. Here are the rankings for Maryland health insurance providers: (1) Aetna, (2)CareFirst Blue Choice, (3) CIGNA HealthCare Mid-Atlantic, (4) Coventry, (5) Employer Health Programs, (6) Kaiser, (7) MD - Individual Practice Association, (8) Optimum Choice, (9) Uniformed Services Family Health Plan, and (10) UnitedHealthcare...

Are Doctors Selfish? The Defensive Medicine Paradox

Posted on October 05, 2010
Related Information CBO Estimate of Cost of Defensive Medicine Defensive Medicine and Malpractice Opposing View: Overlawyered Both doctors' groups and medical malpractice lawyers are preening about a new study that shows that the cost of medical malpractice in the United States is 2...

New Malpractice Opinion: Powell v. Breslin

Posted on October 04, 2010
The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland issued an opinion today in Powell v. Breslin, which is analyzed on the Maryland Malpractice Attorney Blog.

Maryland's New Cellphone Law

Posted on October 04, 2010
Maryland's new no cellphones while driving law has been in effect since Friday. I'd be curious to know how much cellphone use in the car has gone down with the threat of a $40 fine hanging over the head of Maryland motorists. Assuming, of course, that they have committed some other violation for which they have been pulled over because Maryland police have to have a primary reason to make the stop...

Medical Malpractice Claims and the Public Good

Posted on October 04, 2010
The Wall Street Journal has a piece entitled "What the Doctor Missed: Using Malpractice Claims to Help Physicians Avoid Diagnostic Mistakes, Delays." This article underscores a point malpractice lawyers have been making for years: malpractice lawsuits can be a part of the solution to the problem of the sometimes anemic health care we receive in this country in spite of the fact that we have the best doctors in the history of the world...

Calling Supreme Court Justices Out of Retirement

Posted on October 04, 2010
Senator Patrick Leahy proposed a new law that would allow a retired Supreme Court justice to pinch hit if a justice recuses himself or herself from a case. The idea, of course, is that it would lead to less 4-4 rulings in which case the lower court ruling stands...

Recreational Activity Torts

Posted on October 01, 2010
Recreational activity torts, the stepchild of personal injury cases, appear to be making a minor comeback. The Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts reversed a trial court's order of summary judgment in a case involving a woman hit by a ball from twenty feet away during an outdoor party...

Average Bicycle Accident Verdict

Posted on September 30, 2010
Jury Verdict Research conducted a study of its database of verdicts and found that the average jury award in a bicycle accident case is $279,970. Underscoring how high jury verdicts distort the average verdict, the overall median money awarded in bike accident cases is $50,000...

Maryland Cap on Damages Lives on in DRD v. Freed

Posted on September 27, 2010
Fans of the Maryland cap on non-economic damages scored a landslide win in front of the Maryland high court today. The court affirmed the constitutionality of the cap in DRD v. Freed, calling it "embedded in the bedrock of Maryland law" during its 17 year run...

Maryland Hospitals: More Unnecessary Procedures

Posted on September 23, 2010
WJZ reports that Maryland state health regulators are investigating another hospital suspected of performing unnecessary procedures. I think the assumption is that this involoves stents but little detail has been provided. "We've asked the Office of Health Care Quality to do an on-site review, a utilization review of another hospital...

Facebook

Posted on September 23, 2010
We now have 700 Facebook Fans on our Miller & Zois facebook page. If you are not yet a fan, click on the preceding link.

Pitcher Gets Verdict for Bad Pitcher's Mound

Posted on September 22, 2010
There is a verdict in Metro Verdicts Monthly in Prince George?s County that I?m amazed has received no media coverage. The Plaintiff, a 17 year old baseball pitcher, received a $52,703 verdict the right arm fracture he suffered while throwing a pitch in a baseball game...

Maryland Accident Settlements and Lawsuits

Posted on September 22, 2010
On our website, we break down virtually every jurisdiction in Maryland and analyze virtually all of the insurance companies our accident lawyers deal with on a regular basis in Maryland car accident cases. If you have anything you think we should add or subtract from our analysis, let us know...

Malpractice Lawsuits of the Rich and Famous

Posted on September 21, 2010
Medical malpractice lawyers are just looking for a deep pocket to sue. Every time something bad happens to anyone, a lawsuit is filed. It is always only about the money. Largely, these generalizations are just plain false. Usually, in a malpractice case, the doctor has insurance so the pockets are deep enough...

Anne Arundel Race for Judge: Election Results

Posted on September 15, 2010
The election result in the Anne Arundel County judicial race is still apparently too close to call. In this goofy process, all three candidates are on the ballot for both parties in the primary with the top two advancing from each party. So, theoretically, all three can advance to the general election...

Jarashow, Kiessling and Asti: Hometown Annapolis' View

Posted on September 09, 2010
Hometown Annapolis has a good editorial on the details of the upcoming election between judges Ronald Jarashow and Laura Kiessling and Alison Asti. The editorial voices a similar sentiment to the one I expressed here last week, endorsing Jarashow and Kiessling...

Car Accident Statistics from the CDC

Posted on September 08, 2010
The Centers for Disease Control released a study that provides a wealth of information that puts the risks and costs of car, truck and motorcycle accidents in this country in context, particularly with respect to teenage drivers: Vehicle accidents cost $100 billion in medical care and productivity losses every year...

Article on Our $1.1 Million Malpractice Verdict

Posted on September 08, 2010
There is a Maryland Daily Record article out on our $1.1 million dollar verdict in the malpractice verdict in Baltimore City a few weeks ago.

Moot Court Resources

Posted on September 08, 2010
We have started a moot court resources section of our website to help student mock trial competitors get ready for competitions. My wife coached a moot court team at Severna Park High School a few years ago that made it to the state semifinals. She has some good ideas on items we can add to make the site more useful...

Howard County Traffic Accident Police Reports

Posted on September 02, 2010
Howard County traffic accident police reports where the injuries are not fatal are now available on-line. Only motor vehicle accident police reports will be made available on-line. To get the report, you have to pay $5 and certify that you were involved in the accident or you are an accident attorney or insurance company representing someone involved...

How to Teach Lawyers Not to Steal

Posted on August 31, 2010
An Ohio lawyer has been suspended for two year years suspension for submitting ?false and fraudulent? time sheets. Theoretically possible for the workaholic? Sure. But three of her bills reflecting more than 24 hours of work in one day, once billing 90...

Facebook Says Guilty

Posted on August 30, 2010
What do the players in the World Series of Poker have in common with jurors? Poker faces. Unless you really (really, really) have a jury, they usually don't give that many tells. Of course, now we have a cheat sheet with Facebook. Apparently, a Michigan juror pronounced a criminal defendant guilty while the trial was still, ah, ongoing...

$31 Million Rollover Verdict Overturned

Posted on August 23, 2010
The South Carolina Supreme Court overturned a $31 million verdict in a Ford rollover case stemming from a catastrophic accident in 2001 that caused brain damage to a 12 year-old boy. This was a difficult case. A mother was driving with four children who were not wearing seat belts and the mother took her eyes off the road and swerved to get back on the road...

Back Fracture Verdicts

Posted on August 23, 2010
This month, Metro Verdicts Monthly graphs the median verdict and settlement value of back fracture cases over the last 23 years. The median settlement/verdict in Washington D.C. is $52,500. Maryland has a slightly lower median of $43,126. The median settlement/verdict in a back fracture lawsuit in Virginia is $125,000...

E-Filing in Maryland

Posted on August 20, 2010
The Maryland State Bar Association Newsletter reports that Maryland's judicial electronic case management system will be up and running in Anne Arundel County in 2012 and throughout the state by 2015. This system sounds like it will be much like the system used in the federal court system...

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