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.
What is the average settlement amount for wrongful death medical malpractice cases in Maryland and the District of Columbia?
Pressure cookers have been causing devastating harm to their users. This has led to defective pressure cooker injury lawsuits. Our lawyers are handling pressure cooker injury claims not only in Maryland but around the country.
With over 53 million Americans owning some brand of a pressure cooker, the safety of the cookers is a huge concern. It is an incredibly flexible weapon in cooking. But the rush to grab profits in this competitive market has led some manufacturers to cut corners. Since 2006, many different brands of pressure cookers have been recalled for many reasons regarding their safety. The impact of these recalls and the harm pressure cookers are causing is concerning. Defective pressure cookers too often lead to serious and avoidable injuries.
Call us at 800-883-8082 or get a free consultation online if you believe you may have a viable pressure cooker lawsuit.
Medical malpractice cases involving a stroke can be a challenge. Stroke cases are difficult to prove. Are there viable cases? Absolutely. On this page, we will look at medical malpractice cases involving stroke diagnostic errors and the average settlement value of these cases.
This post is for lawyers who are getting stroke misdiagnosis cases but do not know whether the claim is viable. There are common threads that run through the most successful stroke misdiagnosis/failure to treat cases. Cases that result in a settlement or a jury verdict for the plaintiff are usually one of these two breeds: Failing to prevent a stroke and failing to treat a stroke once it has occurred. Continue reading
On this page we will look at tort cases involving severe leg injuries and the average settlement and verdict payouts in these cases.
Severe leg injuries encompass a range of conditions, obviously. When our lawyers use the term, we are talking about leg injuries that significantly impact mobility, quality of life, and long-term health.
This page will look at the average settlement payout in injury or accident cases involving herniated disc injuries in the cervical region of the spine.
Metro Verdicts Monthly’s graph in this month’s issue is median settlements and verdicts in cervical (neck) herniated disc cases in Maryland, Washington, D.C, and Virginia. The median cervical herniated disc case in Maryland is $40,000. The Washington D.C. and Virginia medians are $50,000 and $36,000, respectively.
What is the settlement value of a personal injury claim where you have lost your vision in either one eye or both?
Metro Verdicts Monthly has a graph that reflects the median verdicts and settlements when the injury victim loses vision in one eye in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.
The median for compensation for losing vision in one eye in Maryland is $231,000. You could drive a truck through the gap between Washington, D.C., and Virginia’s median settlements and verdicts with loss of vision in one eye cases: Washington, D.C.’s median is $162,500; Virginia’s is $320,000.
Workers’ compensation laws work differently than claims against other third parties. So if the claim is against your employer, a different set of laws apply. You can typically expect less in an eye injury settlement in a workers’ comp case against your employer than you would for the same injury when a third party was responsible. But in some cases, the victim has two claims: a workers’ comp claim and a claim against the party that caused the harm.
What Is the Average Settlement Compensation for Loss of Sight in One Eye?
What Kind of Money Can I Expect for an Eye Injury at Work?
This page will look at the settlement value of osteomyelitis in personal injury and medical malpractice lawsuits.
Osteomyelitis is a serious bone infection characterized by inflammation of the bone/bone marrow that can prove fatal if not properly treated. Usually, when it is not properly treated, it is because a doctor has misdiagnosed the condition. This happens far more often than it should.
Osteomyelitis is caused by bacterial or fungal infections. If caught early, the condition is treatable with antibiotics and, sometimes, surgery. However, if left untreated because of misdiagnosis, the infection can spread to other parts of the body. If bone death occurs, amputation may be the only option to prevent the spread of infection. We are focusing our attention on humans, obviously. But osteomyelitis is not limited to humans. Elephants, in particular, are prone to this condition, which is often misdiagnosed and leads to their death.
On this page, we will look at average verdicts and settlements in breast cancer malpractice cases.
Metro Verdicts Monthly’s cover graph is failure to diagnose breast cancer settlements and verdicts in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia. By some estimates, between 8% and 12% of cancer cases are initially misdiagnosed.
It is hard to call one type of cancer misdiagnosis case more tragic than another. Every misdiagnosis is going to decrease the chance of treating and defeating the cancer.
But many cancer misdiagnosis cases are not medical malpractice cases because the cancer is so aggressive, but breast cancer misdiagnosis cases are fueled by tragedy because breast cancer is often extremely manageable when caught early, and often fatal when missed. Continue reading
Suboxone is a prescription drug that is commonly used for the treatment of opioid addiction recovery. There is overwhelming evidence showing that Suboxone causes chronic dry mouth which can lead to acute tooth decay and tooth loss. The manufacturers of Suboxone were aware of this side effect for more than a decade but failed to include any warning about tooth decay on the drug product label.
Individuals who used Suboxone and suffered tooth decay are now bringing product liability lawsuits against the drug companies for negligently failing to warn about these risks. Plaintiffs are now seeking an MDL Suboxone class action lawsuit. The national product liability lawyers at Miller & Zois are now accepting Suboxone tooth decay lawsuits in all 50 states.
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Our lawyers have handled scores of lawsuits where the primary injury was head injuries and headaches. This page is about projecting settlement amounts and jury payouts in head injury and headache lawsuits.
Juries struggle with figuring out how to value personal injury cases when the primary injury is a closed head injury that caused — and may continue to cause — headaches.
