This blog post summarizes Mattison v. Gelber, a new Maryland Court of Appeals opinion in a medical malpractice case with a unique issue regarding whether there was an entry of final judgment without an award of costs. You can go to the jump at the bottom of the post. I…
Weehoo will recall approximately 2011 Weehoo iGo bicycle trailers the company made between April 2011 and July 2011. The problem is a parents worse nightmare with these things: that their child becomes unhitched and goes into traffic or somewhere else that is unsafe. Apparently, the receiver on the trailer’s seat…
Truck accident cases are often about insurance coverage. As I have written before, trucking companies are getting advice from lawyers to set us as many different fraudulent hoops as they possible to shield themselves from liability. One mechanism to avoid responsibility many companies use (sometimes innocently) is hiring trucking companies…
In March, I wrote a post about failed efforts in Maryland to require DWI offenders to install an ignition interlock system in their vehicles. Specifically, the bill before the legislature this year would have required people convicted of alcohol-related offenses to only drive cars equipped with an ignition interlock system…
The Maryland Court of Special Appeals provided yet another ruling from Maryland appellate courts about the nuances of malpractice law in Maryland that require a certificate of merit and other technical provisions before initiating a medical malpractice lawsuit. In Maryland, the procedures for filing and litigating medical malpractice actions are…
A lot of meritorious lawsuits were filed last week. Yet this morning my Google Reader quickly pointed me to two that seem to embody the definition of a frivolous lawsuit: Walter Olson on Overlawyered reports on a lawsuit in Canada where the Plaintiff is suing after she jumped out of…
I’ll admit to being a sucker for kind words: I am in CA and I wanted to thank you for your site. I am an innocent victim up against a very ruthless old attorney who has already forced me to bankruptcy and is trying to take my home for his…
Click to enlarge The Washington Post reports that a Prince George’s County jury awarded $5,000 to a WJLA-TV (Channel 7 in Washington, D.C.) Reporter, stemming from an incident where P.G. County police officers detained her briefly at gunpoint, and used excessive force, nearly four years ago. While the jury found…
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