Maryland Accident Lawyer Blog

Vocational Rehabilitation Experts in Accident Cases

2010-03-03T16:40:10Z

In serious accident cases, a vocational rehabilitation expert is often required to testify for the Plaintiff to support a future lost wage claim. This sometimes requires a disability rating.

Disability is an occupational concept that predicts a person's ability to sustain employment at the level that would have but for the disability. Vocational disability does not automatically result in future lost wages. If the Plaintiff can no longer be a farmer but can do another job that provides the same earnings, But if there is a loss or decreased ability to earn a living that leads to economic loss, than you have a future loss of earnings that often needs to be defined by a vocational rehabilitation expert.

Pool Drowning Death Lawsuits in Maryland

2010-02-12T15:33:28Z

Our website provides an overview of swimming pool drowning death cases in Maryland.

Maryland Boat Accident Lawyer

2010-02-02T17:10:29Z

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

2010-01-11T17:09:17Z

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:

Information on negotiating with the insurance companies. Includes the inside scoop on all of the major players in the car insurance market
Value of personal injury case: how claims are valued
Handling your own auto accident claim
Maryland Accident Lawyer Blog

Lawyer's Opening Statement Example

2010-01-11T15:50:22Z

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

2009-12-16T20:40:34Z

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

2009-12-14T20:52:36Z

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

2009-09-25T20:36:32Z

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

2009-09-25T18:17:35Z

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

2009-07-13T16:14:12Z

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

2009-07-06T18:43:39Z

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

2009-04-29T16:42:21Z

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.