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.
Yes—if you did not cause or contribute to the accident, your lack of insurance does not, by itself, prevent you from recovering compensation. The real problem is not eligibility to recover. It is the loss of first-party benefits...
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Will a Prior Injury Affect the Value of a Baltimore Personal Injury Case? A prior injury does not bar recovery, but it often becomes a central battleground. Insurance companies frequently argue that your symptoms existed before the acc...
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Can I Sue Someone for Negligence in Maryland? — Liability, Vehicle Failures, and Proof Yes — you can sue someone for negligence in Maryland if their careless conduct caused you a verifiable injury. That includes unsafe driv...
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No one wakes up in the morning and decides to have a car accident that day. By its very nature, a motor vehicle collision is an unintended, unforeseen and unanticipated happening. One simply cannot prepare for accidents. However,...
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The Foremost Next Step After Baltimore Car Crash? To be sure there are a lot of contenders for the answer to this question. I’ve explored in other articles on this site the various steps that I suggest one take immediately after...
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There are a variety of studies or statistics that one can find indicating that having an attorney handling a personal injury case can result in an increased financial recovery. I’ve seen studies suggesting that a recovery by sett...
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Can Missing Physical Therapy or Medical Appointments Hurt the Value of a Maryland Personal Injury Case? Yes. Missing physical therapy, chiropractic care, follow-up visits, diagnostic testing, or other recommended medical appointments c...
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Over the course of decades representing injured people, I Attorney Eric T. Kirk found that a common scenario is one in which an individual, who has never sought treatment for back or neck pain, for example, is confronted with star...
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There are three missteps that can have a dramatic effect on the valuation of a personal injury case, and ultimately on the financial recovery or compensation received. The first two are related concepts: overvaluing on the one ha...
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A frequent theme running through many of the articles in this library is the absolute need for prompt, competent medical attention immediately after any accident. Attorney Eric T. Kirk’s standing advice to everyone who...
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One of the most important things a personal injury attorney does is to give informed advice to his or her client. In the arena of injury based litigation, it is probable that the most important advice given concerns whether or not to a...
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“Maximum medical improvement” [MMI] is a term of art that has important medical and legal consequences. In the medical context, it is a determination by a doctor that a patient has reached a plateau and achieved...
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