Maryland Legal Article Library
Maryland Legal Articles
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.
Yes—sometimes. The owner of the car that hit you may be responsible, but not automatically. The driver is primarily responsible for their own negligence. The owner may also be responsible if (1) the driver had permission to use t...
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Maryland drivers are charged with the obligation of using reasonable care to avoid car accidents, and generally for the safety of others when driving. However, the nature of that duty may change depending on the circumstances. A driver...
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Yes—usually the driver who caused the crash is the first person legally responsible for the harm that follows. If another driver negligently causes a Baltimore car accident, that driver is ordinarily the primary target of the inj...
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Experienced Baltimore personal injury lawyers will tell you the law requires vehicle owners to make sure their automobiles are equipped with the parts and systems required by the Transportation Code, and at all times must be in such co...
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The law requires vehicle makers to use reasonable care in the design, manufacture, testing and inspection of the automobile, and ensure that it is safe for foreseeable uses. If they fail, that is evidence of negligence. Anyone who has...
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Can Insurance Company Say “No One” Is At Fault for Causing A Baltimore Accident? You bet they can, and do. Personal injury lawyers have heard this argued one more than one occasion. Whether it is phrased in terms of “...
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Proving Other Driver Was At-Fault For Car Accident After Baltimore Accident It is usually clear in the case of car accidents which vehicles were involved -although who was at fault may be hotly disputed. In fact, experienced Baltimore...
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Negligence in a Maryland personal injury case is determined by whether a person failed to act with reasonable care under the circumstances. Main risk: if the insurance company can show you were even slightly at fault, contributory negl...
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Do I have a personal injury case if I was hit while riding a bicycle in Baltimore? Yes — if a driver’s negligence caused the crash and you were not contributorily negligent. In Maryland, even a small mistake by the bicyclis...
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Direct Answer: In Maryland, “damages” are the technical monetary compensation awarded to an injured party for losses resulting from another’s negligence. These are categorized into Economic Damages (calculable losses...
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The at-fault driver or that driver’s insurance should pay your property damage, but many people still choose to use their own collision coverage because it is faster. The tradeoff is usually speed versus deductible, subrogation,...
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The drivers of emergency vehicles have a duty to operate those vehicles safely, even when responding to emergency calls, in the pursuit of suspects, or responding to a fire alarm. Although these emergency responders are immune for liab...
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