Failure to wear a seat belt can sometimes affect the outcome of a personal injury lawsuit. In some states, failure to wear a seat belt can decrease the amount of compensation a plaintiff can receive. In other states, evidence of failure to wear a safety belt cannot be considered when…
The family of a Bel Air man who committed suicide after becoming addicted to a prescription painkiller is filing a medical malpractice suit against his doctor. Ken Jones was addicted to OxyContin when he shot himself in the chest on March 2003. The painkiller was prescribed to him by his…
In a case that is being ruled a pedestrian error, a high school student was hit by an SUV after she jumped out of a moving car and ran across the street on Route 99 in Howard County on Thursday, May 19. Mount Hebron High School student Jamila Haley Palmer,…
There is a new medical malpractice insurer in the state of Maryland called the Maryland Healthcare Providers Insurance Exchange. The Maryland Exchange plans to work with its insured doctors to identify causes of claims and find ways to avoid or mitigate them. The new insurer also wants hospitals and doctors…
Bausch and Lomb has announced a worldwide recall of its ReNu with MoistureLoc contact lens cleaner solution. This recall comes following reports from Asia and the US that most of the contact lens wearers who were infected with a potentially blinding infection called Fusarium keratitis used the solution. Bausch and…
On May 17, 2006 at 7pm, Maryland cycling groups from Hagerstown, Frederick, and Baltimore will join cyclists across the country in a Ride of Silence to honor cyclists who have been killed or injured on public roads. The Ride of Silence was started in 2003 when an endurance rider was…
A $51million lawsuit was filed on May 15, 2006 against the state of Maryland by the parents of an inmate who say that guards were too busy watching television and sleeping to intervene when their son was strangled by another inmate on a prison bus in 2005. The suit was…