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Seroquel Diabetes Lawyer: Attorneys for Seroquel Induced Type 2 Diabetes

Posted on October 09, 2008
There has been evidence since 2002 that drugs in Seroquel?s class caused a 3.34 times greater risk of diabetes than other antipsychotic drugs (which is what Seroquel is supposed to be prescribed for in the first place). In September 2003, the FDA began mandating Seroquel patients are at great risk for type 2 diabetes...

Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund's Finance Companies Take a Hit

Posted on October 07, 2008
The Baltimore Sun reports today that Maryland Insurance Commissioner Ralph S. Tyler ordered nine premium finance companies - companies that finance the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund premiums, which consumers are still required to pay in full - to stop charging ridiculously high finance charges...

Class Action Lawyer Look at the Spiriva HandiHaler

Posted on October 07, 2008
Our lawyers are now investigating potential Spiriva HandiHaler lawsuits after the Journal of the American Medical Association, underscoring long held concerns, reported that Spiriva HandiHaler users may face increased risk of heart attacks or strokes and other cardiac problems...

Class Action Lawyers Look at the Spiriva HandiHaler

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Personal Injury Claims Against AIG: Will They Get Paid?

Posted on October 03, 2008
I have received a number of calls from clients with personal injury claims against AIG fearing their claims are unprotected. Yesterday, we got a call in one of our AIG cases. Someone from Resolute Systems called and said that AIG had given them the assignment of settling large cases...

Property Damage Claims: My Dad's Battle with Ameriprise and Thoughts on Handling Property Damage Claims Without a Lawyer

Posted on September 30, 2008
Last year, my Dad was in an auto accident where the Defendant admittedly ran a red light. Believing in his superhuman ability to drive an automobile, he did not have collision insurance on his car. The insurance company, which shall remain nameless (Ameriprise), denied liability claiming that my father did not react quickly enough to avoid the accident Ameriprise's theory of the case was that Dad is 71 years-old and therefore must have reacted too slowly to avoid the accident...

Ambulance Chasing Lawyers or Providing Equal Access?

Posted on September 29, 2008
The News-Democrat (St. Louis and Southwestern Illinois) has a story about accident lawyers trying to get access to car and truck accident police reports in an effort to obtain clients. These personal injury lawyers look through these police reports on automobile accidents, get the names and addresses of people who have been injured and might have a lawsuit, and then write them a letter soliciting their case...

Doctors and Lawyers and Medical Malpractice

Posted on September 27, 2008
Overlawyered links to a post called Munchausens by Attorney. The blog, Throckmorton, is written by a doctor who says he is a ?mere foot soldier stuck in the medical-legal battlefield.? I don?t know what this means, either. But it is a pretty decent blog...

Colossus and Allstate

Posted on September 26, 2008
I received this email from a personal injury lawyer in Maryland this morning: I have an MIA complaint involving Colossus. Allstate offered the number provided by Colossus and now, of course, refuses to produce any Colossus manuals, etc. Do you have some useful Colossus materials? I don?t...

The Slope Is Rarely So Slippery

Posted on September 24, 2008
In his blog the Art of Advocacy, Baltimore lawyer Paul Mark Sandler suggests a counter to the slippery slope argument: "The 'slippery slope' argument falsely assumes that once you take a moderate first step in a particular direction, a catastrophic chain of events will follow...

State Farm

Posted on September 23, 2008
The Baltimore Injury Lawyer Blog last week published a comment written by a State Farm in-house counsel, issuing a rebuttal of sorts about a trial John Bratt tried against State Farm last month. John's verdict in this case was 8 times the State Farm offer...

Medical Malpractice in Maryland: Too Often, the Names Don't Change

Posted on September 23, 2008
I read in the paper today that Dale Adkins III and Emily C. Malarkey, both with Salisbury, Clements, Bekman, Marder & Adkins in Baltimore, filed a wrongful death medical malpractice case against an OB/GYN in Salisbury. We also have a medical malpractice case pending against the same doctor...

NuvaRing Lawsuits: Specific Causation in Drug and Medical Device Cases

Posted on September 18, 2008
Last month, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPMDL) created MDL for the 11 NuvaRing lawsuits pending in federal court. Discovery for federal NuvaRing lawsuits ? both pending and future - will be centralized for discovery purposes in the Eastern District of Missouri before Judge Rodney W...

Judge Edward A. DeWaters, Jr.

Posted on September 15, 2008
Judge Edward A. DeWaters Jr. died on Saturday of pancreatic cancer yesterday. Judge DeWaters was appointed in 1972 and retired in 2001. Judge DeWaters was at one time the chief judge for both Baltimore County and Harford County. I never had a case before Judge DeWaters...

Favorite Non-Legal Blogs

Posted on September 11, 2008
I was tagged by the Drug and Medical Device Blog with an Internet meme (I don?t know what this is but I get the idea) asking Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog to (1) to identify five non-law blogs that we find to be interesting, and (2) to tag five lawyers to do the same thing...

Average Wrongful Death Verdicts for Females: Age Is More Than a Number

Posted on September 09, 2008
Interesting data from Jury Verdict Research on the median and average values of wrongful death cases where the decedent is female. The overall average compensatory award for wrongful death of an adult female over the last eight years in the United States is $2,990,032 ($1,102,976 is the median)...

Personal Injury Links for the Week

Posted on September 05, 2008
These are some personal injury related links from around the country this week: The Burlington Times News has an article about North Carolina?s decision to require North Carolina doctors to report all medical malpractice payments greater than $25,000...

Plaintiffs' Lawyer Are Committing Fraud and Defense Lawyers are Powerless to Stop It

Posted on September 03, 2008
The Mass Torts Blog, another defense lawyer blog brought to you from our friends at Dechert, posts on Labor Day about medical screening in mass tort cases. The allegations are basically that plaintiffs' product liability lawyers are committing fraud when screening clients...

?We Can?t Compete with MAIF? Complain Maryland Car Insurance Companies

Posted on September 02, 2008
The Baltimore Sun reports that car insurance companies in Maryland are resisting the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund's (MAIF?s) car insurance rate-lowering proposal because MAIF?s plan to lower rates puts the private sector at risk. After a hearing in Baltimore, Maryland Insurance Commissioner Ralph S...

Sarah Palin

Posted on August 29, 2008
Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska, is John McCain choice to be his vice-presidential candidate on the Republican ticket for the White House, according to CNN. Sarah Palini is a first term governor in Alaska. McCain I think is actually around 108 years old because I think - bless him - those years as a POW are like dog years...

Baltimore Injury Lawyer Blog Post About Settlement on the Courthouse Steps

Posted on August 28, 2008
The Baltimore Injury Lawyer Blog has a post about a settlement John Bratt had just before trial in a car accident case this morning. The blog discusses the timing of settlement offers and how settling accident cases on the "courthouse steps" - particularly in small and midsized cases - is probably not in the best interests of the accident lawyer, the client, the defendant, or the insurance company...

Publication of My Book on Maximizing the Value of Personal Injury Cases

Posted on August 28, 2008
Insurance Settlements, a two volume treatise for which I am the lead author, is now available from James Publishing. This treatise is for personal injury lawyers handling auto accident, truck accident, medical malpractice and product liability cases with a lens toward getting the best possible outcome at all stages of these cases (though trial)...

Big Companies as Plaintiffs: 180 Degree Change of Tune

Posted on August 27, 2008
The Baltimore Sun reports today that a federal jury California awarded Mattel a $100 million verdict in their copyright infringement lawsuit against Bratz-maker MGA Entertainment Inc.over the rights to the popular Bratz doll franchise. "Mattel has pursued this case first and foremost as a matter of principle," Mattel CEO Robert A...

My Frustrating Call with an Erie Insurance Adjuster Today

Posted on August 27, 2008
I just hung up with an adjuster from Erie. One thing I can say about Erie is that the Erie adjusters ? particularly in larger cases ? are pretty sophisticated. Agree or disagree with them, they are usually very sharp. Their defense lawyers ? Erie relies on Rollins Smalkin a lot in the Baltimore area and McCarthy Wilson throughout much of the rest of Maryland ? are very competent and generally easy to deal with on personal injury claims...

University of Baltimore Law School

Posted on August 26, 2008
The Wall Street Journal published an article today on law schools gaming the system to improve their U.S. News and World Report rankings. It focuses in part on the rise of the University of Baltimore School of Law, which has risen dramatically in many ways under new dean Phillip Closius, including the U...

Should Companies Be Required to Disclosure Expected Litigation Obligations in Product Cases?

Posted on August 25, 2008
The Wall Street Journal has an editorial with an anti products liability lawyer spin. No surprise. But what is surprising is that I actually agree with it. In light of Enron and other business collapses that left stockholders holding the bag without any real picture of the financial condition of the company, the Financial Accounting Standards Board wants to tighten standards...

Baltimore City Juries

Posted on August 24, 2008
The Baltimore Injury Lawyer Blog has a interesting post about Baltimore City juries from the perspective of a Maryland accident lawyer.

Independent Medical Exams in Accident Cases

Posted on June 10, 2008
The National Law Journal has an article on the increasingly contentious battleground over the circumstances of ?independent medical exams.? Personal injury lawyers in Maryland in car and truck accident cases are increasingly battling over the terms and conditions of the plaintiff?s medical exam, from who can attend the exam to more substantive concerns like the production of the IME doctors? financial records...

False Imprisonment Cases: Median Verdicts and Settlements

Posted on June 09, 2008
The latest edition of Metro Verdicts Monthly provides numbers on false arrest/imprisonment cases in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. The median legal false arrest/imprisonment verdict or settlement in Washington D.C. was $25,000.00. Virginia and Maryland have slightly higher median settlement/verdicts of $26,000...

Forum Non Conveniens Opinion in Randallstown High School Shootings Case

Posted on June 03, 2008
The Maryland Court of Special Appeals ruled yesterday in Peyton-Henderson v. Evans that Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge George L. Russell, III did not err in transferring a lawsuit from Baltimore City to Baltimore County that was filed as a result of the May 2004 shooting at Randallstown High School...

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