Below is a sample document of Notice To Take Deposition Duces Tecum. We filed this on behalf of our client in circuit court. This notice indicates that an expert for the opposing side, in this case a physician, will be deposed by the personal injury law firm of Lebowitz and Mzhen in court. We included a list of documents that the deponent had to bring with him on the day of his deposition:

SCHEDULE OF DOCUMENTS:

1. All cases, by case name, court and case number, in which you have testified for a plaintiff at trial.

In Linthicum Heights last week, Maryland State Police, the Department of Transportation, the Federal Highway Administration, the State Highway Administration, and people from the private sector gathered at the Maritime Institute of Technology to come up with a plan to reduce the number of fatalities, injuries, and motorist crashes that occur on Maryland’s highways as a result of vehicle-related accidents.

The Strategic Highway Safety Plan will include initiatives focusing on seven emphasis areas:

1. Prevention of impaired driving

A Delaware man was arrested for driving under the influence this weekend in Maryland. Maryland State Police say that Frederick Neil Cline was speeding and driving eastbound on Route 50 in a westbound lane when his car collided with Gavin Jay Bayline’s car. Bayline, a Salisbury resident, sustained non-life threatening injuries and was taken to the Peninsula Regional Medical Center for treatment.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that due to alcohol-related car accidents in 2001:

-nearly 18,000 people were killed.

If you have been injured in an accident and are filing a personal injury lawsuit, your attorney will need to request your medical records.

Below is a sample of an HIPAA Authorization and Consent of Information form that we filed on behalf of our client authorizing the release of all their medical records-mental health records, billing statements, radiological films, pathology material, photographs, videos, and other information-to our firm. This document also allows our client’s medical provider to verbally disclose information about our client’s diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis. We have redacted the names of our client and their medical provider for purposes of confidentiality.

Download HIPAA AUTHORIZATION AND CONSENT OF INFORMATION

Heavy freight traffic on Baltimore highways is causing the Baltimore Metropolitan Council to review whether there needs to be more rest facilities available to truckers. There are currently no designated rest stops between the Beltway and the Pennsylvania line, and the council wants to determine whether more truck parking areas need to be created. The council’s Truck Parking Partnership Study is looking into this issue and will make a recommendation.

According to federal regulations, truck drivers:

-Must park and stop if they’ve been driving for 11 hours straight.

If you are involved in any kind of vehicle-related accident, chances are that you will find yourself dealing with your insurance company as well as the insurance company of the other party involved in the car accident.

Here is a list of what to do when you are in any kind of traffic accident.

Also see the article Making Notes About Your Accident And Injuries on our web site.

In Salisbury’s Newtown Historic District, pedestrians and drivers can rest a little easier when navigating through their streets. Devices designed to slow traffic are going to be permanently added to the neighborhood.

A landscaped median will be installed at the entrance of Route 13 and at Division and Mill Streets, while four-way

stop signs will replace a blinking light at Division and Isabella Streets. Curbs located between Mill Street and Route 13 on Isabella Street will be bumped out and landscaped to cause traffic in the area to slow down.

The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has released a report saying that restrictions imposed on teen drivers by the state of Maryland may be working. According to the report, measures known as “graduated driver licensing” can reduce car accident fatalities involving young drivers by 20%.

Limits for licensed minor drivers in the state of Maryland include:

*Not being able to carry passengers younger than 18 years of age when driving unaccompanied by a qualified supervising driver during the first 5 months of being licensed.

If your personal injury case cannot be resolved during mediation, then you may have to go to court. Below, we have included a sample of a court document that we filed in District Court in the state of Maryland demanding a jury trial for our client, the plaintiff, who was injured in a car accident. We have redacted the names of the parties involved for purposes of confidentiality.

Download Demand for Jury Trial document

This Demand For Jury Trial document is provided by the Maryland-based personal injury law firm of Lebowitz and Mzhen.

The Maryland Natural Resources Police have had to turn their attention to local waters where a number of boating accidents have recently taken place.

On June 18, In St. Clement Bay near St. Clement Shores, a 10-year-old boy was injured in the head when an 18-foot boat hit a pound net. The child was flown to Washington DC and treated at the Children’s Hospital National Medical Center.

Just one day earlier, the NRP recovered the bodies of two men from the Potomac River. They had died in a boating accident on June 16. Their boat had been found without anyone on board just south of the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge. A third person who survived the accident was taken to a hospital for treatment. The NRP is investigating the cause of the accident.

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