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What to Know When Sharing the Road with Semi-Trucks

More than 250,000 accidents involving large trucks and small automobiles occur each year. Approximately 97% of these accidents are caused by the surrounding drivers in smaller vehicles. These numbers are a 52% increase from...

What is Pain and Suffering in a Personal Injury Case?

Pain and suffering in a personal injury lawsuit is usually described as “non-economic damages.” Your pain and suffering may not have a dollar value, in terms of time spent in the hospital or seeing a doctor. There are...

What is Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy?

Various complications can cause hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) during pregnancy, labor, and delivery. The damage to your child’s brain from prolonged HIE is usually called “cerebral palsy”, and it will cause a...

What Happens When Your Doctor Makes a Mistake?

When your doctor makes an error in treating you, he or she could face liability for a medical malpractice lawsuit. All medical providers, including doctors, surgeons, anesthesiologists, physiatrists, nurses and therapists a...

The Maryland Hospital Patient’s Bill Of Rights

The MD Hospital Patient Bill of Rights Is Here! After years of fighting for consumer protection for hospital patients, the Hospital Patient’s Bill of Rights is finally set to be signed into law!

Supervised Underage Drinking

If you’re celebrating the end of the year or graduation with your teen, it might be tempting to allow them to toast the occasion with you. However, even supervised underage drinking is illegal and dangerous.

Personal Injury Claims Against The Federal Government

There was a time when the United States government and its employees enjoyed sovereign immunity, which means that they were immune from suit. There was no statutory scheme by which the Federal Government or its employees...

Personal Injury Claims Against The State of Maryland

You can sue the State of Maryland or a State employee for an injury that you sustained because the State or its employee was negligent. However, it’s not as easy as suing an individual. To file a lawsuit against the State...

New MD Laws That Could Change Your Life!

The beginning of July brought more than just scorching summer temperatures to the state. According to The Baltimore Sun and The Washington Post, several new state laws went into effect as of July 1 that could significantly...