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.
No — in most Maryland personal injury cases, the fact that a property owner fixed a dangerous condition after your injury cannot be used to prove they were at fault. The main risk is proof of notice. If you cannot show the owner...
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We discussed in another chapter that proof of a violation of law, ordinance or code can be presented, and may be considered as some evidence of negligence in a Baltimore personal injury case. However, unless the conduct that constitute...
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Usually a parent is not automatically responsible just because the driver is their child. The real risk is that the facts may support a claim based on the parent’s own conduct, such as knowingly putting an unsafe driver behind th...
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A high percentage of all civil lawsuits filed in Baltimore involved allegations of negligence, i.e. a victim sustained an injury because another failed to use the proper degree of care. What if a person sustains an injury due to the in...
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Yes. If someone intentionally hits you, that conduct may give rise to a civil battery claim. But the analysis does not stop there. In Baltimore personal injury cases, the critical questions are whether the contact was intentional, whet...
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Sometimes, but “winning” and “collecting” are not the same thing. If there is no insurance, or not enough insurance, you may still have a legal claim. The real problem is whether there is any practical source of...
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A tort is a civil legal wrong. [We’ve discussed in other chapters that an act of negligence-e.g. the act that causes that car accident- is a tort, or a tortious act, The law recognizes other tortious intentional acts: Attorn...
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Any employee who sustains an accidental injury in the scope and course of their employment is entitled to workers’ compensation benefits. Benefits are payable regardless of fault, i.e. the employee does not have to prove the...
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Yes. If you are hurt at work in Maryland, you are generally entitled to have your medical treatment paid for through workers’ compensation. The primary risk is not whether the benefit exists—it does—but whether the in...
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In Maryland, an injury is covered by workers’ compensation only if it both occurs during your job and arises out of your work. The main risk is assuming that “being at work” is enough. It is not. Insurance companies r...
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Experienced personal injury lawyers in Baltimore regularly obtain benefits for clients who’ve had an accidental injury in the scope and course of their employment. In these instances, a hearing will take place before the Workers...
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Does Where the Accident Happened Determine How Much You Get in a Baltimore Personal Injury Case? Short answer: Where the accident happened can affect how much you ultimately recover, but not because the location itself creates value. I...
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