Maryland Legal Article Library
Maryland Personal Injury Insurance Claim Lawyer
Over the course of the last decades, Eric T. Kirk has published articles addressing Maryland personal injury claims, car accident cases, truck accident cases, workers’ compensation claims, denied homeowners insurance claims, and insurance disputes involving fault, causation, damages, repair scope, and claim value.
Maryland Personal Injury, Insurance Claim & Case Analysis
If you have been injured in an accident, hurt at work, or trapped in a dispute with an insurance company over a denied, delayed, or underpaid claim, the value of your home, or the value of your bodily injury, these articles will help identify the legal issues that matter.
Each addresses a component of your core issue: You are locked in a battle for full and fair compensation with an insurance company that has proven unwilling to provide it.
If you cannot find what you are looking for, you may contact the firm to discuss whether legal review is appropriate. I challenge unfair claim denials and devaluations in Maryland’s courtrooms.
The job of personal injury counsel is to show how the law applies, favorably, to the factual circumstances of his or her client. As attorney Eric T. Kirk will tell you, Maryland law provides that jurors are instructed to consider sever...
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Can You Recover Compensation for Future Problems or Future Expenses Due to an Injury? Short Answer: Yes. In the right case, compensation can include future medical care, future wage loss, future pain, and other lasting effects of an in...
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Is Interest Added to a Maryland Personal Injury Settlement, Judgment, Verdict, or Award? Sometimes. Interest is usually not added to a personal injury settlement unless the settlement agreement says so, but post-judgment interest may a...
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What If a Baltimore Car Accident Caused Anxiety, Fear, or Emotional Distress? Yes, emotional distress can matter in a Baltimore car accident claim, especially when it accompanies a provable physical injury or is supported by clear phys...
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Maryland juries are instructed that negligence is doing something that a person using ordinary care, caution and prudence would not do, or, in fact doing something that a reasonably cautious person would not, under the circumstances. A...
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A Dramshop Act is a law that imposes civil liability on the vendors of intoxicating liquor where, typically, that liquor is dispensed to someone who is obviously intoxicated, and that obviously intoxicated person then leaves the establ...
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What Is the Statute of Limitations for a Baltimore, Maryland Personal Injury Claim? In most Baltimore personal injury and car accident cases based on negligence, the general deadline to file suit is three years. That is the outside fil...
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In Maryland, a negligence action generally must be filed by a personal injury attorney within 3 years from the date of injury. However, an action for damages relating to providing, or failing to provide, professional health care servic...
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What Should You Do After a Baltimore Car Accident? If you think you may be hurt after a Baltimore car accident, get medically evaluated first. If you are physically able, begin gathering information and preserving evidence at the scene...
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The law of five jurisdictions, Alabama, District of Columbia, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, contains the doctrine of “contributory negligence”. This principle, a leftover vestige from the common law of England, hundre...
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Yes, if you sustained an injury, you do. Because, by definition, you were on a bus, and don’t have damage to your vehicle, it is unlikely, but perhaps not inconceivable, that you would have any type of property damage claim. But...
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If you are involved in an automobile accident, and you had the “right of way”, the other driver is typically going to be found “at fault” for the accident– at least in the absence of contributory negl...
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