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.
It is illegal, and negligent, to take away the right of way from another vehicle that lawfully possesses that right of way. Experienced Baltimore personal injury lawyers have likely litigated cases where a driver makes a right turn, an...
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For most of us, including most Baltimore personal injury lawyers, it has been a long time since Driver’s Ed. Of course, if a sign, or traffic light controls an intersection, those traffic control devices determine who has the rig...
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Is A Baltimore Owner Responsible For Personal Injury If Their Dog Bites Me? Yes in most instances. Baltimore law provides the owner of an animal is charged with a duty or using ordinary care in controlling the animal. Some seasoned Bal...
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Often, people incorrectly assume if they are injured, they recovery money. If it were that easy, I would likely not have a job. By way of example only, let’s assume unusually strong winds knock a tree over, and onto a car. T...
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We’ve seen that a Baltimore personal injury lawyer trying a strict liability products case must prove that the product was both defective and “unreasonably dangerous” when it left the seller’s control to prevail...
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We’ve seen that the elements of “defective” and “unreasonably dangerous” can be proven by showing a flawed design, or by showing a defect in the manufacturing of the product itself. Attorney Eric T. Kirk w...
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We’ve seen that the elements of “defective” and “unreasonably dangerous” can be proven by showing a flawed design, or by showing a defect in the manufacturing of the product itself. To fully answer the que...
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As discussed elsewhere, insurance carriers that have paid medical bills related to a car accident, or the providers themselves, will assert a claim, or a “lien” on any amount you are awarded. One of the most important...
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Yes. If your child was hurt in an accident, the child has the direct injury claim, and the parent may also have a separate claim for economic losses tied to that injury, including medical expenses the parent incurred and the loss of th...
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Can I Sue a Public Official or Emergency Medical Provider in Maryland? Sometimes yes. Government employment or emergency-response status does not automatically end every Maryland injury claim. But these cases are not ordinary negligenc...
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Certainly, the owners of commercial establishments own their patrons a duty of reasonable care to keep their premises, including a public restroom, safe. An owner, or their employee, is not responsible, however, if they let a person us...
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Knowledgeable Baltimore personal injury lawyers are aware that an official of a municipal corporation is immune from suit for their official actions, while acting in a discretionary capacity, in the absence of malice. However, an...
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