A new Maryland Appellate Court decision, Ledford v. Jenway Contracting, Inc., involved a wrongful death lawsuit filed against an employer by the daughter of a deceased employee. The employee had died in a work-related incident. The defendant argued that the exclusive remedy for plaintiffs was the Maryland Workers’ Compensation Act…
This post is about calculating wrongful death settlement compensation payouts in Maryland. Our lawyers have handled scores of wrongful death malpractice lawsuits in Maryland and have developed a strong sense for what settlement amounts and jury payouts you can expect if you have a claim. Wrongful Death Malpractice Settlement Amounts …
The untimely death of a family member or someone you love can be devastating, both emotionally and economically. This type of loss can be even harder to accept when it was caused by someone else’s negligence. Fortunately, our civil legal system gives you the ability to do something about this…
I stumbled on an interesting Chicago Law Review article today by Eric Posner (Judge Richard Posner’s son) and Cass Sunstein (now with the Obama administration). I like Sunstein’s views on several issues, including animal rights. I talk about this article in this post and then I jump on a tangent…
In Maryland, a wrongful death lawsuit can be brought by a family member of someone who was negligently killed. The wrongful death lawyers at Miller & Zois, LLC have over 100 years of combined experience handling wrongful death claims in Baltimore where our law offices are based. Our firm also covers…
In Kassem v. Gaddy, the Michigan Court of Appeals was faced with a simple question: can you scare a man to death? Facts of Kassem This is an odd case. An 85-year-old man crashed into the back of a tractor trailer. It sounds like the man was at fault…
The first thing they do in a communist Nazi country is destroy the jury system. Why do they want to destroy the jury system? Because you represent the line between tyranny and democracy, right and wrong. You have the power. . . You have more power today than the President…
When I read a newspaper article, I assume it is true. Why I do this defies logic and reason. Prince George’s County Circuit Courthouse A little paper near my home with a limited budget wrote an article on a pedestrian accident wrongful death case in Prince George’s County. You probably…
I’ve written a good bit about use plaintiffs’ in Maryland wrongful death cases and the hornets’ nest that lawyers can find themselves in when they do not have all the potential wrongful death beneficiaries reading off the same sheet of music before filing suit. The Maryland Court of Appeals has…
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court stuck down a $5 million verdict in an Ethicon endocutter design defect case last week, finding that the trial court was not restricted to considering only one use of the device and that it correctly applied a risk-utility analysis. The case talks about product liability risk-utility…