- Steve Silverman | February 17, 2009 6:03 PM | Baltimore, MD
Category:
Automobile Accidents
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...
- Steve Silverman | February 05, 2009 3:48 PM | Baltimore, MD
Category:
Automobile Accidents
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,...
- Shannon Weidemann | March 27, 2007 9:45 PM | Baltimore, MD
Category:
Tractor-Trailer Accidents
A 54-year-old truck driver has been charged with reckless driving after causing an accident that killed a man on the Capital Beltway. He was driving a tractor-trailer on a suspended license. Police also believe that he had forged his logbook to show less driving time. Monday's accident occurred about 11 p.m. on the outer loop of the Beltway north of Route 1. Police said the tractor-trailer...
- Shannon Weidemann | March 14, 2007 2:07 PM | Baltimore, MD
Category:
Tractor-Trailer Accidents
Two Truck Drivers were driving their semi-trucks on the New York State Thruway on Tuesday morning when they were both killed. One was crushed under his truck after his truck was hit by another semi. The other semi then flipped over and caught on fire. "There were no witnesses, and the two people involved are dead," said Ricky Peets, a state police investigator assigned to the Thruway.Some...
- Shannon Weidemann | February 23, 2007 11:30 PM | Baltimore, MD
Category:
Tractor-Trailer Accidents
A truck driver from Mayo was killed when his semi-truck overturned on the entrance ramp to the highway. The accident happened at the intersection of SR 6 and I-75. The driver was turning north onto the on-ramp to northbound I-75 from the westbound lane of SR 6 about 8:30 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 9. He began braking the truck as he entered the on-ramp and the truck overturned onto its left side on...
- Steve Silverman | May 24, 2006 1:56 PM | Baltimore, MD
Category:
Medical Malpractice
Personal Injury law in Maryland is vastly different then other states due to the Doctrine of Contributory Negligence. Contributory negligence means that if a person is found to be 1% or more at fault, that person is 100% barred from making any recovery. For example, if you are the victim of a rear end collision and the judge or jury finds you contributed to the accident by stopping too quickly,...
- Staff Writer | March 10, 2006 9:38 AM | Baltimore, MD
Category:
Tractor-Trailer Accidents
Michael Kaplen has a great blog with tons of brain injury news and information. Back in November, Michael brought my attention to a Penn State study which examined truck accidents in 2004. The study was done to see how allowing truckers to drive 11 consecutive hours (the limit was previously 10) affected crash risk.According to ScienceDaily.com:Dr. Paul Jovanis, professor of civil engineering...