Understanding Denied Baltimore Business Interruption Claims
Insurance policies are unique legal documents drafted in language that is often unfamiliar and complex to policyholders. While they provide broad grants of coverage for losses caused by specified risk...
Can I Be Liable for Not Repairing or Maintaining My Car if There Is An Accident?
Maryland law imposes numerous obligations on the owners of a motor vehicle keeping it: insured, inspected and up to par on emissions standards. Seasoned personal injury and accident lawyers like...
I Had A Prior Accident. Is That Going to Ruin My Case, or Can I Recover?
We’ve discussed in other guides that a prior accident can be a significant variable in assessing the value of Baltimore injury or car accident claim. Prior to the initiation of litigation, it ma...
What Types of Car Accident Insurance Do I Have? What Do the Numbers on My Policy Mean?
The coverage provided by an insurance policy is reflected, generally, in a separate document called a declarations page. The number following the coverage description is the dollar amount of the...
What is Considered Drug Paraphernalia?
Drugs, called “controlled dangerous substances”/ CDS under the law, are illegal. But is a pipe? Depending on the surrounding environment, any inanimate object could conceivably consti...
I’ve Been Charged With Reckless Endangerment. What Is That?
To convict under this charge, the State must prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the defendant recklessly created a substantial risk serious physical injury or death, to another. As with the separa...
What is Considered A Bad Check? Can I Be Charged with a Crime?
Everyone who has ever bounced a check is not charged with a crime, and bouncing a check, standing alone, is not criminal. Honest mistakes happen. It’s probably a safe bet that everyone with a ch...
I’ve been charged with Theft. What is Theft?
In these guides, I’ll explore in detail the myriad ways that one can commit a theft. Criminal defense lawyers in Baltimore Attorney Eric T. Kirk MD that remember their law school classes wi...
Is Unauthorized Control The Same As Stealing?
Maryland law prohibits knowingly obtaining or exerting unauthorized control over the property of another with the intent to deprive the owner of the property, or with the intent to conceal the propert...
In Baltimore, MD, is Larceny The Same As Stealing?
Baltimore Criminal defense lawyers like Attorney Eric T. Kirk are likely well versed on the Maryland theft statue, an omnibus or catchall provision, covering all manner of nefarious conduct, prev...
What If I Did Not Know It Belonged To Someone Else? Can I Be Charged With Theft?
Criminal defense lawyers in Baltimore Attorney Eric T. Kirk MD are well aware than any crime requires proscribed conduct, plus the simultaneous existence of a culpable state of mind possesse...
