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The apartment complex and maintenance company keep blaming each other for your College Park crash for a reason

A rear-end crash on private property can turn into a finger-pointing mess fast, especially when the concussion lingers and both companies act like none of it is their problem.

ARTICLE by Colleen Murphy

am i screwed if a cleaning chemical burned me during a 12-hour shift in College Park and the hospital lien takes almost all the settlement

A College Park nurse got burned by a work-supplied cleaning product, missed shifts, and now the hospital lien is threatening to swallow the case before rent gets paid.

ARTICLE by Dwayne Patterson

Did the product you bought turn out to be a defect-ridden "lemon"? A lemon law is a consumer-protection law that requires a manufacturer, and sometimes a dealer, to repair,...

Landlord Liability for Serious Maryland Dog Bites

In Maryland, a dog bite claim can turn on who owned the dog, who insured the property, whether the landlord knew the animal was dangerous, and whether the insurance company can pin even a little blame on you.

ARTICLE by Colleen Murphy

Prince George's says you missed the notice deadline while an investigator films your bad shoulder at the gas station

A long-haul driver in College Park can get wrecked twice in the same claim - first by the crash, then by Maryland's government notice rules and insurance surveillance.

ARTICLE by DeAndre Jackson

Rockville city truck claim after a scaffold fall - why the payout math gets ugly

A scaffold fall tied to a Rockville city truck can involve workers' comp, a government claim, and third-party settlement money that gets sliced up before you ever see it.

ARTICLE by Priscilla Oyewole

i got partly paralyzed in a Baltimore crash and now they're saying there was no workers' comp

A Baltimore business owner with no disability coverage may still have workers' comp rights, a claim against the at-fault driver, and a fight over being mislabeled as self-employed.

ARTICLE by Karen Bosley

No money for a lawyer after a Gaithersburg crash fire - are you trapped by arbitration?

A rear-end crash led to a vehicle fire and burn injuries, and now the insurance paperwork says arbitration when the at-fault driver may not have enough coverage.

ARTICLE by Priscilla Oyewole

Workers' comp vs a third-party claim after a College Park roof fall - which move is smarter?

A city bus driver doing job-site work in College Park may have two separate claims after a roof fall, and one usually matters a lot more than people first think.

ARTICLE by Tony Marchetti

Just left Frederick Health and your boss is already making immigration threats

The biggest mistakes after a conveyor-belt injury in Frederick usually happen in the first 48 hours, especially when an employer uses immigration threats to scare you out of a claim.

ARTICLE by Sandra Kim

Why the insurer keeps digging through your Gaithersburg records after a delayed cancer diagnosis

A Maryland truck driver with a delayed cancer diagnosis is getting squeezed by an insurance exclusion fight, and the real issue is whether the insurer can tie the delay to something the policy carved out.

ARTICLE by Colleen Murphy

plaintiff fact sheet

A standardized questionnaire an injured claimant completes in a mass tort or other multi-plaintiff case. "Standardized" means everyone is asked for roughly the same information...

My coworker said any fault kills a Maryland slip-and-fall claim, true?

What the insurance company does not want you to know is that Maryland still uses contributory negligence. If they can blame you for even 1% of the fall, they may argue you get...

The hospital just filed a lien, and now your kid's Bowie dog-bite claim looks gutted

A dog bite to a child's face can lead to a decent insurance claim, but a hospital lien in Maryland can chew through the money fast if nobody forces the numbers to make sense.

ARTICLE by Miguel Rodriguez

standard of care

What the insurance company does not want you to know is that this phrase is not a shield for every bad medical outcome. Defense lawyers often use standard of care to make an...

Lone Pine order

A case can get more expensive, slower, or even thrown out if a judge requires proof early and that proof is weak, incomplete, or missing. That is why a Lone Pine order matters:...

claims administrator

The part that confuses people most is that a claims administrator is not always the insurance company and is not the judge deciding who wins. It is the person or company...

Why is the insurer saying my Frederick employee's PTSD claim needs a visible injury?

What the police report says is usually just that there was a crash, a fall, or "no obvious injury at scene." What actually matters for the claim is medical proof tying the...

contributory negligence

Yes - if you were even 1% at fault, Maryland can bar your injury claim completely. That means exactly what it sounds like: if the other side proves you helped cause the wreck,...

Do I have to stay in this case, or can I walk away? Opt-out rights are the right of a person included in a group lawsuit - usually a class action - to remove themselves from...