Maryland Legal Article Library
Maryland Personal Injury Insurance Claim Lawyer
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.
Everyone has day-to-day responsibilities and obligations. Jobs, kids and the like. Being involved in an automobile accident can make getting those obligations met all the more difficult. It’s not just a question of being injured,...
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Yes. In Maryland, rental-car expenses can be part of the property-damage side of a motor vehicle claim after a crash. The main risks are a liability dispute, weak documentation, and delay in repairing or replacing the vehicle once that...
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Is a clear liability case worth more than a disputed one Yes, cases with clear liability generally have higher settlement value. When liability is clear, the insurance company faces a higher likelihood of paying damages, which increase...
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Yes. After a Maryland car accident, you should document every reasonable expense connected to the crash. The main risk is not just forgetting a charge. It is giving the insurance company an opening to say the loss was never incurred, w...
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Is the driver that strikes from behind responsible? Seasoned Maryland car and automobile accident lawyers will tell you the answer, generally, is yes, but it is not an automatic result. All drivers must use reasonable care for the...
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Can an insurance company deny a Maryland injury claim by calling it a low-speed collision? No. An insurance company can argue that a low-speed collision did not cause injury, but that label does not decide the claim. In practice,...
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There is no universal answer to whether it is better to settle a Maryland personal injury case or take it to trial. The right decision depends on the reasonableness of the offer, the strength of liability proof, the likely value range,...
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This is not truly a situation involving a ‘hit and run“, or at least it is a variant on that theme. Perhaps this situation can be though of as a ‘delayed hit and run’. In other words, the person responsible for...
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Am I Entitled to Compensation for a Hit-and-Run Accident in Maryland? Yes, you may be entitled to compensation after a Maryland hit-and-run accident, but the claim usually shifts to your own uninsured motorist coverage if the fleeing d...
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Before any discussion of “value,” the first question is whether you can recover at all. In Maryland, if you are found even partially at fault for an accident, you may be barred from recovery. A computer program does not mea...
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One of the keys to assessing the value of any Baltimore personal injury case is determining the strength of the liability portion. Seasoned Baltimore personal injury and accident lawyers are well aware that a strong liability case is w...
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It seems like it should be easy. Medical records and bills are needed to support a personal injury claim. The doctors office has them. You should be able to go the to the office and pick them up. Easy, right? Maryland car accident lawy...
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