What Can I Recover If I Win My Maryland Personal Injury Case?
Attorney Eric T. Kirk will tell you. Maryland law allows for the recovery of economic and non-economic damages. Transcript Maryland law calls compensation in a personal injury case damages or money damages. There are two types of damage that are applicable to a personal injury case. Economic and non-economic. Economic damages are hard number... Read more »
What Kinds Of Fees Are Associated With Personal Injury Lawsuits?
Attorney Eric T. Kirk will tell you. There are no out-of-pocket attorney’s fees. Transcript Cases are generally handled on one of three types of fee basis. There’s a fixed or a flat fee where an agreed-upon amount is paid to a lawyer. There’s an hourly fee, where the lawyer charges hourly for their service, and... Read more »
What Is The Statute Of Limitations To Bring A Maryland Auto Accident Case?
Attorney Eric T. Kirk will tell you. Its three years. Transcript The general statute of limitations in Maryland, and the one applicable to car accidents, is three years. You have to file a lawsuit in a court of law within three years from the date the accident happened. Just because you have three years to... Read more »
What Is No-Fault Insurance?
Attorney Eric T. Kirk will tell you. Maryland call no-fault Personal Injury Protection [PIP] Transcript In Maryland, we call no-fault insurance PIP or personal injury protection. This is first-party insurance coverage. First party, meaning it’s your insurance, it’s on your vehicle, you pay for it. It’s available to pay for your medical expenses and your... Read more »
What Is Negligence?
Attorney Eric T. Kirk will tell you. Not acting prudently under given circumstances. Transcript The law imposes upon all of us an obligation to act reasonably in a given set of circumstances. We’re all judged by a reasonable person standard. The law says we can’t actually harm other people or engage in conduct that creates... Read more »
What Is My Personal Injury Case Worth?
Attorney Eric T. Kirk will tell you. There are numerous factors that a personal injury attorney uses to intelligently value a case. Transcript It’s a very important question and one that’s very difficult to answer. It also can’t be answered in a vacuum. It’s probably the key role of a personal injury attorney to give a... Read more »
Will I Have To Pay Anything Out-Of-Pocket In My Maryland Personal Injury Case?
Attorney Eric T. Kirk will tell you. No. There are no upfront fees. Transcript The general answer here is no. Most lawyers will handle personal injury cases on what’s called a contingency fee basis, meaning, if there is no financial recovery for the client, the client doesn’t owe anything to the lawyer in terms of... Read more »
What Should I Look For In Hiring An Attorney To Represent Me For My Maryland Auto Accident?
Attorney Eric T. Kirk will tell you. Experience in handling your specific legal matter. Transcript I would suggest looking at the same things and utilizing the same criteria you would use in making an assessment of anybody else in any other professional field. Certainly would want to know how long somebody has been doing something,... Read more »
What Should I Do If The Insurance Company Offers Me A Check Right Away?
Attorney Eric T. Kirk will tell you. You should send it back. Transcript The answer is you don’t take it. In a personal injury case, it’s just not possible to fully assess the nature and extent of an injury after a few hours or a few days. It might actually be an unfair claims practice... Read more »
Maryland Courts to Remain Closed Through June 5th, 2020.
“All courts in the Maryland Judiciary, court offices, administrative offices, units of the Judiciary, and the Offices of the Clerks of the Circuit Courts and the clerks’ offices of the District Court having been restricted to emergency operations and closed with limited exceptions beginning on March 17, 2020, shall remain restricted to emergency operations, and... Read more »
Which Insurance Company Denies the Most Claims ?
I’m Attorney Eric T. Kirk not aware of any statistics that set forth which major insurance company denies the most claims, whether in terms of total claims denied, or as a percentage of claims denied as compared to claims filed. Any such statistics might not be entirely helpful. For example, the largest car insurer in Maryland... Read more »
Do Car Insurance Companies Make More Money by Denying or Underpaying on Auto Accident Claims?
The is no doubt that the Maryland car insurance industry as a whole is enormously profitable. Maryland personal injury attorneys devote a substantial portion of their resources to litigating accident claims an insurance company has denied. It makes some logical sense that any business that takes in more in revenue than it pays out in... Read more »
