Yesterday I received an order from the Court of Appeals of Maryland scheduling oral argument in two cases I am handling. Really, it is one argument, but relates to two cases that have been consolidated on appeal. The first case is a case my colleague Rod Gaston had for trial…
Last week, I argued an appeal in a truck accident case. I was in the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland, which is our state’s intermediate appellate court. My case was fourth in line on the day’s docket. That meant I got to (was forced to) sit through the argument…
The Baltimore Sun’s Peter Hermann reports about a criminal case in Baltimore City that raises questions about juror disclosure and impartiality. Apparently, this particular case ended in a mistrial because one juror was holding out for an acquittal. After the mistrial was declared, prosecutors learned that the holdout juror was…
I just finished a two-day jury trial in the Circuit Court for Cecil County. Based solely on the preceding sentence, any experienced Maryland personal injury lawyers reading this probably have an idea where this post is going. I was trying one of the most difficult types of cases to present…
Our firm obtained a verdict of $1,063,807.37 for our client this week. Great win for a wonderful 22-year-old mother of a one-year-old at the time of the accident. Facts of This Truck Accident Case This was a hotly contested liability case. Our client contended she was injured when the Defendant,…
The best way to attack a defense medical witness’ testimony is to conduct an effective cross-examination. One of the ways we do this is by exposing the doctor’s financial interest in acting as a professional witness. Maryland law allows discovery of how much a professional witness earns from testifying, as…
Here in Maryland, we have a procedure that allows a Plaintiff’s medical records and bills to be admitted into evidence without the testimony of a medical provider. This requires service of a list of the records to be offered at least sixty days before trial. This procedure is available in…
Last week I wrote about a car accident injury case we tried in the District Court of Maryland for Prince George’s County. We do not handle many district court cases anymore but we liked the client in this case. The crash was a rear-end collision with a soft-tissue injury. The…
We always have a few cases going on in the office involving car accident injuries caused by uninsured motorists. One of these cases had something interesting happen today. The defendant insurance company had identified two doctors as expert witnesses. They secured an order compelling plaintiff to submit to an “independent…
Recently, we have been seeing more and more problems in trying injury cases involving Maryland uninsured or underinsured motorists. Md. Insurance Code Ann. § 19-511 states the procedures that must be followed in settling UM/UIM claims. We call it the “pay to play” statute. Basically, it says that once the…