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• Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak Reported at Plim Plaza Hotel in Ocean City, Maryland

  Patrick Mickler | October 06, 2011 4:03 PM | 25 CommentsBaltimore, MD

  The Plim Plaza Hotel in Ocean City, Maryland has closed three days before the end of the season after three former guests were hospitalized with Legionnaires’ disease. All three guests were...

• Wrongful Death Suit Filed Against Nursing Homes

  Shannon Weidemann | May 10, 2007 4:32 PM | 1 CommentBaltimore, MD

  Two nursing homes have had wrongful death lawsuits filed against them for their alleged improper care and treatment of a former resident. The estate of the deceased woman have filed suit against Bethalto Care Center and Rosewood Care Center of Alton. Three doctors have also been named in the lawsuit.Brown claims Bethalto failed in its duty to exercise ordinary care by failing to provide...

• Multistate Salmonella Outbreak Linked To Sausage Products

  Chrissie Cole | February 06, 2010 10:29 PM | 0 CommentsBaltimore, MD

  Public health officials in several states are investigating a salmonella outbreak that has sickened 202 people in 42 states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At least...

• Tractor-Trailer Carrying Milk Overturns In Howard County

  Chrissie Cole | August 05, 2009 6:59 PM | 0 CommentsBaltimore, MD

  A tractor-trailer, carrying milk, overturned Wednesday morning on I-95 to Route 32 West in Howard County. The driver of the truck, Gary Hines, 35, of Severn, suffered minor injuries and was...

• Maryland Legislature Considers Criminal Liability for Adults Giving Alcohol to Minors

  Steve Silverman | February 17, 2009 6:03 PM | 0 CommentsBaltimore, MD

  Maryland personal injury lawyers a re closely watching a bill in this season of the Maryland General Assembly which will impose criminal liability on adults providing alcohol to minors. Intended to...

• Civil Invasion of Privacy-A Tort Under Maryland Law

  Steve Silverman | February 13, 2009 2:41 PM | 0 CommentsBaltimore, MD

  Whether it involve a landlord with a peephole, unauthorized movies or pictures, or compromising pictures posted on the Internet, the tort of invasion of privacy is the best means to recover in civil...

• Junk Faxes-Plaintiff's Lawyers Are Recovering Millions

  Steve Silverman | February 13, 2009 2:11 PM | 0 CommentsBaltimore, MD

  We all get them. Those annoying travel offers or mortgage refinance offers that tie up your fax machine at work, or wake you up in the middle of the night at home. They are illegal and a violation...

• Out of State Automobile Accidents-What law Applies?

  Steve Silverman | February 06, 2009 11:24 AM | 0 CommentsBaltimore, MD

  I recently represented a Maryland resident who was driving in Delaware when his car was hit head-on by by another Marylander who was driving in the opposite direction. My client suffered...

• Contributory Negligence in Maryland for Maryland Personal Injury Cases

  Steve Silverman | February 05, 2009 3:48 PM | 0 CommentsBaltimore, MD

  The Doctrine of Contributory Negligence adversely affects many personal injury plaintiffs in the State of Maryland. Basically, if a victim is found to share in the responsibility for an accident,...

• Pain Pumps Risk Joint Injury, Chondrolysis in Patients

  Courtney Mills | 2008-01-18T10:26:31 | 0 Comments

  Drug delivery via a pain pump allows chronic pain patients to receive measured doses of pain medication through a catheter directly to the area surrounding the spinal cord or surgical site. Pain pump drug delivery utilizes a small pump surgically implanted under the skin near the abdomen to control chronic pain symptoms in patients who have already tried unsuccessfully to control pain with other...