Click to enlarge 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. The plaintiffs…
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 for the right arm fracture he suffered while throwing a pitch in a baseball game. Two questions come to mind:…
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 context, particularly regarding teenage drivers: Vehicle accidents cost $100 billion in medical care and productivity losses every year. Almost 4% of the economic…
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 over 24 hours of work in one day, once billing 90.3 hours of work during a 96 hour period. In another,…
Above the Law provides us with what will be a Maryland Injury Law Center Top Ten Nominee for craziest lawsuit of the year. (Ignore the fact that there is not such a list.) I can’t believe Overlawyered has not picked it up yet. A former medical malpractice lawyer in Maryland…
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 hard case. A mother was driving with four children who were not wearing seat belts and the…
Miller & Zois lawyers Laura Zois and Rod Gaston obtained this afternoon a $1.1 million verdict for our client in a medical malpractice (lap chole) case in Baltimore City.
Paul Luvera offers on his blog a good checklist (sorry, link now broken) for preparing a case for trial. Paul points out that checklists – seemly obvious things that have probably been around since man was carving into stone – have received renewed interest in other fields, most notably in medicine…
One case I have been meaning to write about for a few months is Dickerson v. Longoria, a recent opinion that I think is important for Maryland nursing home patients and their counsel. The ultimate issue in Dickerson is whether a family member had the authority to bind a nursing…
The Legal Intelligencer has a pretty comprehensive article about how to frustrate, annoy, and pry into a plaintiff’s Facebook activity. In a malpractice or car accident case, the primary purpose of Facebook discovery is to show that the plaintiff is not as injured as claimed in the lawsuit or in…