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.
Other articles on this site discuss computer settlement software such as the Colossus program utilized by Allstate, among others, and the TEACH program utilized by State Farm. Years ago, many, if not most major insurance companies bega...
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It likely does not come as a surprise to anyone that litigation is expensive. It goes without saying that if an injured individual has chosen to hire a personal injury attorney for representation in a claim, that the attorney is to be...
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If you are injured while in the scope and course of your employment while at work, you are entitled to workers compensation benefits. The workers’ compensation laws set up a scheme of benefits which are, in theory, automatic...
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I field a great many interesting inquiries from prospective clients. The start of many of these conversations is “what types of cases do you handle” or “do you handle “_____________” type of case...
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Not necessarily fatal, but it can create a real problem. If you told the insurance company you were not hurt after a Maryland car accident, the carrier will usually try to treat that as the opening narrative of the claim. The main risk...
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How an Insurance Company May Use Contributory Negligence to Deny or Defeat Your Personal Injury Claim Direct Answer: In Maryland, contributory negligence is a legal doctrine that can defeat a personal injury claim if the injured person...
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If an insurance company is engaging in less than good-faith negotiations, or has extended an unreasonably low offer, the only thing that you can do is take your financial recovery out of their hands altogether by filing a lawsuit in th...
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As a Baltimore injury lawyer, I would say. most likely the most frequently asked question is something like: “Do I have a case?” or, “How much is my case worth?” These are great questions, but perhaps not the mo...
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Maryland law requires that you carry 30,000 of bodily injury liability insurance coverage, or “another form of security in place of a vehicle liability insurance policy if … the other form of security adequately provides t...
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After a car accident in Maryland, you usually sue the at-fault driver, not the insurance company. After a car accident in Maryland, you usually sue the at-fault driver, not the insurance company. Main risk: if the insurance company can...
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Personal Injury Protection Benefits [PIP] are first-party no-fault car insurance benefits available under Maryland law. As Attorney Eric T. Kirk will tell you. Historically, one could obtain benefits, or could decline the ava...
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It is a common scenario. An individual slips, trips or falls, injuring themselves in a substantial way, and necessarily asks if I Slip, Trip Or Fall in Baltimore, Can I Sue For Compensation? If fault is suspected, a call to an Exp...
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