Analyzing Insurance Company Risk and Defenses Impact on Value
How Do Risk and Legal Defenses Affect Case Value in Maryland? Short answer:Risk can significantly reduce or eliminate value. Expanded answer:In Maryland, even a small amount of contributory negligence...
What Reasons Can an Insurance Company Use to Deny a Personal Injury Claim in Maryland?
Short Answer: Insurance companies deny claims based on fault disputes, causation arguments, pre-existing conditions, “low impact” theories, contributory negligence, and credibility attacks...
What is Personal Injury Protection Under Maryland Insurance Law?
Almost any Baltimore personal injury lawyer Attorney Eric T. Kirk will tell you that PIP benefits are ‘no-fault‘, ‘first-party’ insurance benefits. ‘No-fault’ means...
If I Let An Intoxicated Person Drive My Car, Am I Responsible?
Unfortunately, these are questions that are often not asked until it is too late. Baltimore personal injury lawyers Attorney Eric T. Kirk have successfully argued that a non-driving owner is responsib...
Can You Turn Right From The Middle Lane?
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 wh...
Did I Have the Right of Way?
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 contro...
Is A Baltimore Owner Responsible For Personal Injury If Their Dog Bites Me?
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 contro...
When Does Strict Liability Apply in a Personal Injury Claim?
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...
Maryland Products Liability Lawyer | Defective Products & Strict Liability Claims
Maryland Products Liability Lawyer — Defective Products, Strict Liability, and Injury Claims A Maryland products liability claim arises when a defective and unreasonably dangerous product causes...
What Does Unreasonably Dangerous Mean in the Setting of a Products Liability Case?
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 th...
When Can an Injury From a Manufacturing Defect Entitle You to Compensation?
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 prod...
