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Exxon hit with $1 billion in punitive damages 

By: Danny Jacobs
Published: July 1, 2011

Tags: Exxon, gasoline leak, punitive damages

Exxon Mobil Corp. has been hit with $1 billion in punitive damages for a 2006 gasoline leak in rural Baltimore County, Md., sources close to the litigation said Thursday.

That’s in addition to about $495 million in compensatory damage awards that were made public Wednesday.

Court narrows suit of woman injured by broken forceps 

Published: June 21, 2011

Tags: design defect, failure to warn, product liability, strict liability

A federal judge in Baltimore has applied Virginia law in dismissing strict-liability claims against the maker of forceps that broke inside a Maryland woman undergoing a hysterectomy.

Jury sides with defense in HIV case 

By: Danny Jacobs
Published: May 19, 2011

Tags: AIDS, HIV, Maryland, medical malpractice, wrongful death

A Maryland jury has found two doctors not liable in the death of a 72-year-old man who was discovered to have HIV.

Family of Maryland man settles for $1.1 million in motorcycle death 

By: Danny Jacobs
Published: May 10, 2011

Tags: motorcycle accident, negligence

The family of a Maryland native killed in a motorcycle accident last year has reached a $1.1 million settlement without filing a lawsuit.

Nordstrom found negligent in verdict over knife attack 

By: Danny Jacobs
Published: April 21, 2011

Tags: negligence, premises liability

A Maryland jury has awarded nearly $1.6 million to two women who were stabbed while shopping at a Nordstrom store almost six years ago.

Stroke victim misdiagnosed with carpal tunnel wins $1.1M 

By: Danny Jacobs
Published: April 19, 2011

Tags: carpal tunnel syndrome, medical malpractice, stroke

A Maryland man and his wife have been awarded more than $1.1 million because his stroke symptoms were misdiagnosed as carpal tunnel syndrome.

Bigamy costs man $500K 

By: Danny Jacobs
Published: March 16, 2011

Tags: bigamy, Maryland

A Maryland woman has been awarded nearly $500,000 from the man who married her without legally being divorced from his wife.

Hospital settles False Claims suit for $22 million 

By: Danny Jacobs
Published: November 12, 2010

Tags: False Claims Act, Medicare, whistleblower

A hospital in Maryland has agreed to pay $22 million to settle allegations that it paid illegal kickbacks to a cardiovascular physician group over a 10-year period and, separately, billed federal benefit programs for “medically unnecessary stents.”

Mother and son win $4.1 million in cerebral palsy case 

By: Danny Jacobs
Published: November 9, 2010

Tags: birth injury, cerebral palsy, Maryland, medical negligence

A Baltimore City jury has awarded $4.1 million to a woman and her 8-year-old son who alleged that the negligence of University of Maryland Medical Center doctors caused his cerebral palsy.