Experienced Maryland personal injury attorneys can help parents or guardians recovery money for injuries suffered by their children in automobile accidents. Whether or not the parent a guardian was involved in the car crash that injured the child is irrelevant to whether a parent/guardian can collect on behalf of the minor child.
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Metro has agreed to pay $2.3 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by a man whose wife was killed when she was struck by a Metrobus last year. The man who brought the lawsuit wanted to hold Metro accountable when it struck and killed his wife and his wife's friend, both of whom were walking in a crosswalk at the time of the incident.
In Maryland, every year numerous individuals are injured by the negligence of the drivers and operators of various methods of mass transportation, whether it's an MTA bus, the Lightrail or the Metro. When mass transit operators have caused injury, through error or negligence, it is important that they be held accountable. This level of accountability is a profound way to bring about changes that may be advantageous to, and further protect, the health and welfare of the public in general. This level of accountability is also a means to redress whatever wrong or violation may have occurred.
When an individual is seriously injured in a collision involving a bus, metro train, Lightrail or other means of mass transportation, it is important to consult an experienced trial lawyer to determine whether a lawsuit is warranted and necessary. Such cases are extremely important to pursue so that adequate compensation can be obtained for an injured victim so that he or she can get the best medical and other care under the circumstances.
The attorneys at Silverman Thompson Slutkin & White have handled a number of personal injury and/or wrongful death cases involving buses, trains and other means of mass transportation. For a free consultation please contact us at www.mdattorney.com.
As an experienced Maryland personal injury lawyer, I see many injured victims in automobile accidents who are afraid to seek recovery for damages because they either are driving uninsured or their driver's license is suspended.
Maryland law does not discriminate against victims of other people's negligence because they are uninsured or their driver's license is suspended. Maryland accident or negligence law only recognizes contributory negligence. Driving without insurance or a valid Maryland driver's license is not recognized as contributory negligence in Maryland. Accident victims in Maryland can proceed to recover damages despite these perceived problems. To learn more about victim's rights in Maryland, please contact the personal injury lawyers at Silverman, Thompson , Slutkin & White for a free consultation.
In personal injury cases, damage to personal property may be a component of an injured victim's overall damages. How do you prove this component of your case? In Maryland, it is well-established that an owner of personal property may express an opinion as to the value of that property without qualification as an expert. See Maryland Casualty Co. v. Therm-O-Disc, Inc. 137 F.3d 780,786 (1998). The experienced personal injury trial lawyer should be well-armed with this authority whenever proving his or her client's total economic damages in a personal injury case. The experienced trial lawyer will not let defense counsel convince the court that an expert is needed to opine as to the value of personal property. Maryland law contains no such requirement.
There are several strategies that the best and most successful Maryland trial lawyers do to increase their chances of obtaining significantly higher damages awards at trial. Intense preparation is, naturally, first and foremost among that list. Too many inexperienced personal injury lawyers leave the damages component as an afterthought, focusing all their energy on proving the liability component -- i.e., proving who was at fault, who was negligent, who breached a duty owed to the injured victim, and who was at fault for causing the injury. To be sure, proving liability is absolutely critical to prosecuting a personal injury case. Without proving liability, there is no recovery at all. But it is a shame to win a hard fought jury verdict in favor of your client, only to have the jury return a damages award that is too low and does not account for the full extent of pain and suffering that a client has endured, which by the time you get to trial, is usually measured in years.
Building the damages component of a personal injury case needs to start from the day the lawyer meets the client. The personal injury lawyers at Silverman, Thompson, Slutkin & White use an exhaustive damages questionnaire when we meet with clients. We follow-up with our clients regularly to see how they are feeling, how they are managing their pain and how they are recovering. We follow-up with our client's doctors regularly. We make our clients problems our problems and try to understand what it is like to walk in their shoes. The knowledge that is accumulated by our attorneys during the case preparation phase is absolutely critical to providing an effective presentation of damages at trial. This knowledge allows our attorneys to create an accurate and detailed frame of reference so that the jury understand the full extent and significance of our client's injuries. With this type of knowledge and understanding, our attorneys are less inclined to accept defense counsel's argument that jurors in "more conservative" counties won't award significant damages. Defendants love to use that argument as a settlement tool. I believe, however, that potential jurors in every county truly understand when someone is injured and has been suffering. It is the responsibility of a good lawyer to lay the groundwork for damages from day one so that they can give an effective presentation at trial.
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Experienced Maryland personal injury lawyers are well aware of the benefit to their personal injury clients who use their health insurance to pay for their medical expenses. Whether injured in an automobile accident, trucking accident or the victim of some other type of personal injury, victims who are advised by their attorney to use their health insurance will significantly increase their financial recovery.
Maryland personal injury law requires that health insurance companies reduce their lien on a case when the insured uses a lawyer to obtain a recovery from a third party. Experienced Maryland personal injury lawyers may be able to save the their client tens of thousands of dollars by maximizing the benefits of health insurance in personal injury cases. For more information on how to maximize recovery in Maryland personal injury cases involving health insurance liens, please contact us for a free consultation.
Persons injured in automobile accidents in Maryland may be eligible for Personal Injury Protection (PIP). Personal Injury Protection is a common no-fault insurance provision which benefits persons injured in automobile accidents to collect money as reimbursement for medical bills and lost wages. Most Maryland automobile insurance policies are written to allow up to $2500.00 in PIP benefits. Some Maryland insurers will allow for up to $10,000.00 in PIP benefits for injured persons.
Eligible injured parties may include both drivers or passengers in automobile or truck accidents. A person may be excluded from recovering PIP benefits for personal injury or lost wages if they previously waived PIP on their own automobile policy. For injured persons who do not have a Maryland automobile insurance policy, they are normally eligible for PIP benefits as long as they do not live in the same household with someone who has a Maryland automobile insurance policy and has waived PIP benefits.
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Experienced Maryland Personal Injury Lawyers can recover damages for persons injured in slip and fall cases in Maryland. Business owners and property owners can be held liable for damages suffered as a result of a slip and fall on their premises.
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Experienced Maryland Personal Injury Lawyers will be able to properly advise passengers who are injured while riding in taxi cabs or buses in Maryland.
The doctrine of respondeat superior, in Maryland, allows an employer to be held vicariously liable for the tortious conduct of its employee when that employee was acting within the scope of the employment relationship. With regard to the negligent use of motor vehicles in a respondeat superior claim, the State of Maryland recognizes that a master can be held liable for the negligent operation of a servant's motor vehicle if the master expressly or impliedly consents to the use of the automobile, and......had the right to control the servant in its operation, or else the use of the automobile was of such vital importance in furthering the master's business that his control over it might reasonably be inferred.
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Maryland personal injury victims have different legal rights. Injured passengers who are injured in car accidents in Maryland may recover from several different possible insurance policies.
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