How Does An Attorney Determine How Much To Ask For In A Personal Injury Case?
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 accept an offer of settlement or take the case to trial. This advice, in... Read more »
Understanding Maximum Medical Improvement In A Personal Injury Case.
“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 the maximum benefit from remedial medical care. In the opinion of the doctor rendering the determination, the injured person will... Read more »
What Is A Car Accident Case Worth In Baltimore City, Maryland?
The question of “What Is A Car Accident Case Worth In Baltimore City, Maryland?” is a fundamental one for anyone injured in a motor vehicle collision. However, as Baltimore personal injury lawyer Eric T. Kirk aptly points out, there’s no simple, universally applicable answer. The value of a car accident case, particularly in a specific... Read more »
Why Do I Have To Pay My Health Insurance Company Back From My Personal Injury Settlement?
Every major health insurance company that I Attorney Eric T. Kirk am aware of has provisions in their insurance policy that allow them to recover, from your recovery, for expenditures that they made for medical care for an injury caused by an at-fault third-party. Moreover, the substantive law of subrogation likely allows insurance companies responsible for medical... Read more »
Three Common Mistakes To Avoid When Pursuing Personal Injury Benefits After A Maryland Car Accident
Personal injury protection benefits, typically referred to by the acronym PIP, are mandatory*, first-party insurance benefits in Maryland, unless waived, affirmatively, by you. This means that they are: included on your car insurance policy you paid the premiums, and they are payable on a no-fault basis Benefits will typically cover a portion if your lost... Read more »
Can I Get Compensation From All At-Fault Parties If I Am Injured By More Than One Person In An Accident?
An individual who has been injured by the negligence of another is entitled under the law to be “made whole” for their injuries. The remedial purpose of the law here is to restore that individual, as nearly as possible, to their pre-accident condition by way of monetary compensation called damages. Money damages might be a... Read more »
What Is Your Reduced Attorney Fee Program For Baltimore Personal Injury Cases?
For more than a decade I’ve been proud and honored to extend a reduced attorney fee program to Maryland residents that have been injured through the negligence of another. I’ve extended this program to hundreds of Marylanders who have been injured in car accidents, falls, and other mishaps where allegations of negligence have been made.... Read more »
How Can The Reduced Attorney Fee Program Save Me Money On My Personal Injury Case ?
How Can The Reduced Attorney Fee Program Save Me Money On My Personal Injury Case ? There are two things to keep in mind here. The first is that my reduced contains a lower attorney fee percentage than that typically found in personal injury fee arrangements commonly seen in Maryland. The second is that, by... Read more »
Top 3 Reasons To Consider Using A Reduced Attorney Fee Program For A Maryland Personal Injury Case
The principal advantage in the reduced fee program may be no different than the greatest advantage in all contingent fee arrangements. It may well be the absolute lack of risk to the injured person. Under a contingent fee arrangement, for the client or injury victim, there’s no exposure or risk of non-recovery. In other words, the... Read more »
The Impact of The Two-Way Center Turn [“Suicide”] Lane on Baltimore Personal Injury Cases
Many years ago, highway engineers in Maryland proposed utilizing a two-way center turn lane on divided highways. The suggestions were adopted, and these center lanes were constructed throughout Maryland. The use of this lane, sometimes referred to by the euphemism “suicide lane”, has perhaps generated more personal injury related litigation in Maryland than any other... Read more »
Do I Have To Come To Court And Testify In My Personal Injury Case?
If you go back and examine the numbers, it’s a safe bet to say that most personal injury claims don’t become “cases”. By that, I mean that the statistics reveal that most claims raised to or against an insurance company will resolve at some point through a settlement, or otherwise, prior to the initiation of... Read more »
Top Three Reasons That A Baltimore Personal Injury Case Can Be Lost.
There are no statistics kept on this, at least not to my knowledge, but I Attorney Eric T. Kirk would hazard a guess that the top 3 reasons a personal injury case is lost in court, are, in no certain order: contributory negligence; a finding of no negligence on the part of the defendant; failure of... Read more »
