No recovery ordered in bus crash case 
By:
Steve Lash
Published: December 11, 2012
Tags: bus crash, car accident, damages, Maryland
A bus driver’s negligence in colliding with an automobile on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway two years ago will not cost a transit authority any money, as a federal court jury concluded that the plaintiff’s alleged injuries were not proximately caused by the morning rush-hour collision.
Rite Aid pays $250K for disability firing
Published: November 28, 2012
Tags: ADA, disability discrimination, EEOC, epilepsy, Maryland
Rite Aid Corp. will pay $250,000 to settle federal claims that the drugstore chain fired a Maryland man because he had epilepsy and had filed an Americans with Disabilities Act claim against the company with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Student with cerebral palsy settles suit over eye injury
Published: November 8, 2012
Tags: cerebral palsy, duty of care, Maryland, medical bills, negligence, negligent supervision, school
A Maryland teenager with cerebral palsy who lost an eye when a fellow student allegedly threw a book at her face will get $55,000 from the city of Baltimore under a settlement approved by the City Board of Estimates.
Md. jury awards $5.6M in warrant snafu
Published: October 30, 2012
Tags: Maryland, police, wrongful arrest
A jury has awarded damages of $5.6 million to a disc jockey who was arrested and jailed in 2009 after a county sheriff’s department in Maryland mistakenly entered a warrant against him into the National Criminal Information System database.
Maryland judge shuts down fake bankruptcy law firm
Published: October 29, 2012
Tags: excessive fees, law firms, law licence, Maryland, mislead
A high-school graduate who operated a fake law firm in Baltimore must cease doing business and pay $261,000 for representing clients in bankruptcy cases.
Parents claim wrongful death due to energy drink
Published: October 26, 2012
Tags: California, Delaware, ENERGY DRINKS, false marketing, fraudulent concealment, Maryland, product liability, wrongful death
The parents of a 14-year-old girl have filed a wrongful death lawsuit alleging that the makers of the popular beverage Monster Energy were guilty of fraudulent concealment and negligence in marketing the drink to their child.
Fired 70-year-old to receive $235K for wrongful firing
Published: October 25, 2012
Tags: age discrimination, EEOC, Maryland
The town of Elkton, Md. will pay $235,000 to an assistant town administrator/finance director it fired, allegedly because of his age, under a settlement reached with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Deprived dad wins $720K
Published: October 19, 2012
Tags: conspiracy, custody, fraud, fraudulent concealment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, Maryland
A jury has awarded a Maryland father $720,000 in his lawsuit against his former wife and three other people, in which he claimed his ex-wife encouraged their 16-year-old daughter to run away and allowed her to marry rather than honor a court order granting him custody.
Roofer wins $7M for highway collision
Published: October 9, 2012
Tags: emotional pain, lost wages, Maryland, pain and suffering
A Baltimore jury has awarded more than $7 million to a learning-disabled roofer who has suffered debilitating back pain after an automobile collision in December 2005.
Md. top court declines to impose sanctions against lawyer
By:
Kristi Tousignant
Published: September 26, 2012
Tags: attorney fraud, deceptive business practices, fraud, Legal Malpractice Monitor, Maryland
Maryland’s highest court has refused to impose any sanctions on a Baltimore-based lawyer whose stepmother accused him of deceit and fraud in handling the estate of his deceased father, who was a famed night club operator and real estate developer.
