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.
How Much Is My Case Worth? Are Medical Expenses Taken Into Account? Direct Answer: Yes. Medical expenses are a primary technical variable in Baltimore injury case valuation. Under Maryland’s collateral source rule, you are entitl...
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How Much Will I Get for My Personal Injury Case in Baltimore? No honest lawyer can tell you a precise number at the start of a Baltimore personal injury case. The real answer depends on whether you are entitled to recover at all, how s...
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One way to increase the amount of money recovered by an injury victim is to decrease the amounts being disbursed to others. Since all disbursements in this context come from the same pot, a decrease in one is necessarily an increase in...
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Who Pays My Medical Bills in a Maryland Personal Injury Case? Short answer: You are responsible for your medical bills as they are incurred. They are usually paid by insurance first, then reimbursed out of any settlement or verdict. Ma...
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When an individual is injured in an automobile accident, or injured at the hands of another through an act of negligence, the law permits that person to recovery economic and non-economic losses. As Attorney Eric T. Kirk will tell...
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Who Do You Sue in a Baltimore Personal Injury Case? Direct Answer: Recovery in a Baltimore injury case is not limited to the individual driver. Depending on the facts, it is possible to recover from employers, vehicle owners, or your o...
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Should I Take Pictures After a Baltimore Car Accident? Yes. Photographs are often the difference between a provable claim and a disputed one. In Baltimore personal injury cases, the absence of visual evidence creates a gap that insuran...
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Assumption of the Risk Defense in Maryland Personal Injury Cases What is assumption of the risk in a Maryland personal injury case? Assumption of the risk is a legal defense that can completely bar recovery if a person knowingly and vo...
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Yes, you will usually need to communicate with your own insurance company after an injury auto accident, at least enough to report the crash and open the claim. But that does not mean you should give broad, careless, or improvised stat...
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The use of settlement software by the insurance industry is a well-kept secret, generally. Allstate, which is believed to still use a specific computer program to arrive at a settlement offer-called Colossus- has been compelled by regu...
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It happens every day. A relatively “minor” motor vehicle accident. What is minor to some, may not be minor to others. For the participants, few accidents are minor. Certainly, insurance companies will endeavor to chara...
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The law imposes on us a duty to act prudently under a given set of circumstances. This is what lawyers recognize as the ‘reasonable person standard’. The law charges all drivers, for example, with the obligation to do what...
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