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.
Mediation in a Maryland personal injury case is a confidential settlement process in which a neutral third party tries to help the parties reach a voluntary agreement without trial. The main risk is misunderstanding what mediation can...
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Personal injury claims can be thought of as falling into three broad categories. Perhaps the most common are those resulting from negligence. An example would be the careless operation of a car leading to an accident causing injury. Cl...
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Can a surveillance camera help prove a Baltimore car accident? Sometimes, yes. A car accident may be captured by a traffic camera, business camera, residential camera, parking-lot camera, dashcam, or a witness’s phone, but many c...
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I’m Attorney Eric T. Kirk sometimes asked by my clients – “ Am I going to win my personal injury case at trial?” Of course that is an impossible question to answer for a lawyer. An attorney doesn...
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Do I Have To Call The Police? Should I Talk to The Other Insurance Company? After a Maryland car accident, you should generally speak to the responding officer, EMTs or other medical providers, any witnesses, the other driver only to t...
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Allstate makes an staggering amount of money. But, Is Allstate Insurance Company Going to Give Me a Good Settlement Offer? The money has to come from somewhere. Here is what Allstate itself says about its profitability. “Overall,...
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It’s an unfortunate fact of our existence that unexpected things happen everyday that injure people. When discussing a liability determination in a personal injury case, a concept that I often see overlooked is that of resp...
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When an insurance company labels an injury as “soft tissue” or “minimum impact,” it is usually signaling a strategy to minimize or deny the claim. Main risk: the insurer uses low-impact arguments to reduce the p...
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The answer is yes. Lawyers are no different in this respect than any other profession. If you were not happy with the work that an auto mechanic was doing on your car -you would find a different mechanic. If you were not happy with the...
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What is maximum medical improvement in a Maryland personal injury case? Maximum medical improvement, or MMI, means a doctor believes an injured person has reached a plateau and received the maximum benefit from remedial medical care. I...
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Can a Maryland Insurance Company Send Me to Their Doctor? An Independent Medical Exam, or IME, is usually a defense medical examination requested or paid for by the insurance side to generate opinions about causation, injury severity,...
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While it’s difficult to answer these inquiries with across-the-board precision, this subject arises frequently during initial case analysis and strategy sessions. The short answer to both questions posed in the title is a resound...
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