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.
Posting legal questions online can expose confidential information, weaken your case, and create evidence that can be used against you. The main risk is unintentionally waiving confidentiality or revealing facts that an opposing party...
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Why Are Baltimore Workers Compensation Claims Denied? It’s been noted elsewhere in these Articles, that the workers’ compensation law is supposed to be self-executing. In other words, automatic. What we see in practice is t...
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Maryland Insurance companies deny hundreds of claims each week. I’ve identified, perhaps, the five principal reason insurance companies use to deny claims concerns citing their oft-raised contention that “there is no...
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Top Three Most Common Mistakes When Not Hiring a Baltimore Injury Lawyer Direct Answer: Relying on self-help legal advice for a Baltimore injury claim creates significant technical risks. The three most critical mistakes are: 1) failin...
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This is a question, unfortunately, that has come up over the years for some of my clients. When dealing with a delayed Maryland personal injury claim, or a denied Maryland accident claim, particularly where pro...
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One thing that I see frequently enough to merit attention is the person who delays first seeking medical care after they are involved in an accident. I discuss the possible impacts on a claim where someone waits too lon...
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It’s a common refrain, and a typical internal debate. “Should I hire a personal injury attorney?” There are articles in these guides that discuss suggested factors to be considered in making a decision to hire an...
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What Is the Average Weekly Wage in Maryland Workers’ Compensation Cases? The average weekly wage (AWW) is the number used to calculate nearly every workers’ compensation benefit in Maryland. The primary risk is that it is c...
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I’d be safe in saying most people have a sense that when you sustain a personal injury at work you are entitled to receive workers’ compensation benefits. There is a general sense, held by even someone who has never pursued...
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Gross Settlement vs. Actual Distribution Four Categories May Reduce the Amount the Client Receives The gross settlement is the total amount recovered. The client’s net recovery is what remains after attorney fees, case expenses,...
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I’ve sometimes asked “what is the status of my case”, or “what’s going on with my case”? These are legitimate questions, to be sure. Any represented person is entitled to reasonable updates, whe...
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Can I Be Terminated While I Am Out On Workers Compensation?
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