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.
Perhaps surprisingly to some, it can be a tough way to make a living. I’m actually a big fan of lawyer jokes and slurs, but I’ve also always objected to the label “ambulance chaser” and the like. Are there lawye...
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It’s been some time since the numbers have been crunched, but periodically, the Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics accumulated data on a national basis showing the value of, and chances of winning a personal inju...
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Any personal injury attorney that tries case and has been around for a while has had one of these. The conventional wisdom is that if you are hit in the rear in a car accident, it’s the other driver’s fault. As Attorne...
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Can You Sue for a Maryland Car Accident If Snow or Ice Was Involved? Yes. The presence of snow or ice does not prevent you from bringing a personal injury claim in Maryland. However, it creates a higher-risk environment where insurance...
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A “premises liability case” is the more formal name, both within the legal industry and outside it, for what most people call “slip and falls”. Not surprisingly, there is a rash of personal injuries resulting fr...
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The reason that you are at a location, or your status, can impact your right to compensation. The owner or person in control of property owes a variable duty to protect people on that property from harm. The responsibility depends on t...
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A landowner is responsible for ensuring his or her property is safe. The law does not decree that a property owner is automatically responsible for all happenings on the property. Upon a showing a fault – in this instance allowin...
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The American Meteorological Society tells us black ice is “a popular alternative for glaze. A thin sheet of ice, relatively dark in appearance, may form when light rain or drizzle falls on a road sur...
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General Maryland law requires that all property be free from dangerous conditions that may harm others. But, often, local law provides some specifics when it comes to snow or ice. General Maryland law also provides that the violat...
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We’ve seen that the plaintiff has the obligation of carrying the day in a car accident or negligence case. In other words, they have to prove their case. The plaintiff must prove the accident was caused by someone else’s ne...
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If two drivers caused the accident, you may still pursue a claim without first proving which one caused which part of the harm. In a multi-vehicle or chain-reaction crash, the real fight is often not whether more than one driver contri...
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Personal injury law is a special area of law that enables an injured victim to receive the monetary compensation they deserve when another party’s intentional or negligent actions caused them harm. There are many different types...
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