Maryland Boat Accident Lawyer

By Ronald V. Miller, Jr on February 2, 2010 12:10 PM | No Comments
Boating accidents include all marine accidents that happen on the high seas. Our lawyers focus on recreational boat accidents and injuries to jet skiers and others injured at sea.

If you have been injured in a boat accident or a loved one suffered a drowning death in a pool or at sea in Maryland, call one of our Maryland boat accident lawyers at 800-553-8082 or get a free online boat accident consultation. 

Dealing With Geico, State Farm, Allstate

By Ronald V. Miller, Jr on January 11, 2010 12:09 PM | No Comments

Here's a quick summary: these insurance companies are awful.  They would shoot their own kids in the back of the head and everyone knows it.  Little known fact: insurance companies were behind foiling the plot to kill Hitler. 


Okay, I'm making all of that up.  These insurance companies are not that bad.  There is no conspiracy and most people who work for insurance companies are good decent people that are no better or worse than the rest of us. But it is true that insurance companies will do everything they can to avoid making payment on a claim.  Below is advice on dealing with the insurance companies:

Lawyer's Opening Statement Example

By Ronald V. Miller, Jr on January 11, 2010 10:50 AM | No Comments
One popular item on our Maryland Accident Lawyer Help Center is example opening statements our lawyers have given.  You can find them here.  

Maryland Fee for Filing Personal Injury Complaint

By Ronald V. Miller, Jr on December 16, 2009 3:40 PM | No Comments
The fee for filing a personal injury lawsuit in Maryland is $120 in Circuit Court and $30 in District Court.  These are the fees in state court.  In federal court in Maryland, the fee for filing a personal injury complaint rises to $350.  Our firm fronts all costs in our personal injury cases, including filing fees such as these.
   

Accident Fraud

By Ronald V. Miller, Jr on December 14, 2009 3:52 PM | No Comments
I know everyone claims it only happens in the United States.  But fraud in auto accident cases is not limited to just the United States.  In Singapore, a man is accused of acted as a coordinator, referring motor vehicle accident cases to law firms in order to file a claim with insurance companies.  Apparently, he also arranged for at least one person to file a false accident report.

If you judge any profession by the lowest people who practice in it and their most egregious offenses, you are going to find a lot wrong with that profession.  So it goes with Maryland accident lawyers.

State Farm Claims

By Ronald V. Miller, Jr on September 25, 2009 4:36 PM | No Comments

Without a doubt, State Farm is a difficult insurance company to deal with for settlement.  State Farm claims adjusters - not because of flaws in their character but based on orders from above - do not typically make offers before a lawsuit is filed that approximate the true value of the State Farm claim.  This article on State Farm claims gives some insight on dealing with State Farm.

Don't Just Assume Your Insurance Policy Language Will Carry the Day

By Ronald V. Miller, Jr on September 25, 2009 2:17 PM | No Comments
There have been numerous opinions from the Maryland appellate courts that uninsured motorist coverage is required any any effort by the insurance companies to draft language to abrogate that coverage will not be recognized by Maryland Courts.  So ask your Maryland accident lawyer what the law is instead of relying on what your insurance contract says.  Because claims that appear to be excluded may well be covered by Maryland law.

Car Accident Lawsuit in Queen Anne's County

By Ronald V. Miller, Jr on July 13, 2009 12:14 PM | No Comments
The Maryland Accident Lawyer Blog has a post about a verdict in a car accident case in Queen Anne's County where the jury managed to squeeze into the tight middle of the offer made by the Plaintiff's accident lawyer and the insurance companies (USAA and State Farm).

Maryland CSA Decides Discovery Rule Case

By Ronald V. Miller, Jr on July 6, 2009 2:43 PM | No Comments
Saxon Mortgage v. Harrison is not a accident case but a case claiming fraud and breach of contract in Frederick County. But it does involve issues that Maryland auto accident lawyers deal with everyday: discovery violations.   

You can find the full opinion here. 

Rear End High Speed Motorcycle Accidents

By Ronald V. Miller, Jr on April 29, 2009 12:42 PM | No Comments

The Frederick News-Post reported - according to the Baltimore Sun - that Maryland State police announced that Damascus man died after his motorcycle crashed into the rear of stopped car of a 16 year-old girl in Frederick County.  The car that was rearended was on Route 80 to make a left turn at Chaucer Court in Monrovia on Saturday night.  The motorcyclist was flown to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where police say he died about four hours later.


This is an awful tragedy.  I don't know anything about the facts of this particular accident beyond what is written above.  But I know that a lot of otherwise great people drive their motorcycles too fast.  Motorcycles are such dangerous instrumentalities.  It is always safer to be in a car but, driven with extreme care, the risk of motorcycle accidents can be substantially decreased by driving with extreme care. 


Yet it seems motorcyclists are actually getting more reckless and the result our accident lawyers in Maryland are seeing is more motorcycle injuries.  While motorcycle registrations actually decreased from 2005 to 2006,  fatal motorcycle accidents actually increased by 5.7 percent. There has also been a rise in fatal motorcycle accidents nationally - and I assume in Maryland - in people over 50 years-old.

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