Lawyers USA Online » Maryland http://lawyersusaonline.com Your Business Partner Mon, 20 May 2013 13:52:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 No recovery ordered in bus crash case  http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/12/11/no-recovery-ordered-in-bus-crash-case/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/12/11/no-recovery-ordered-in-bus-crash-case/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:48:33 +0000 Steve Lash http://lawyersusaonline.com/?p=89851 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.

David Nejad alleged he was traveling
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]]> http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/12/11/no-recovery-ordered-in-bus-crash-case/feed/ 0 Rite Aid pays $250K for disability firing  http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/11/28/rite-aid-pays-250k-for-disability-firing/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/11/28/rite-aid-pays-250k-for-disability-firing/#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:58:06 +0000 Steve Lash http://lawyersusaonline.com/?p=89546 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.

Christopher Fultz, who worked in a pharmaceutical distribution facility
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]]> http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/11/28/rite-aid-pays-250k-for-disability-firing/feed/ 0 Student with cerebral palsy settles suit over eye injury  http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/11/08/student-with-cerebral-palsy-settles-suit-over-eye-injury/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/11/08/student-with-cerebral-palsy-settles-suit-over-eye-injury/#comments Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:45:57 +0000 Beth Moszkowicz http://lawyersusaonline.com/?p=89036 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.

Alexis Alston
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]]> http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/11/08/student-with-cerebral-palsy-settles-suit-over-eye-injury/feed/ 0 Md. jury awards $5.6M in warrant snafu  http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/10/30/md-jury-awards-5-6m-in-warrant-snafu/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/10/30/md-jury-awards-5-6m-in-warrant-snafu/#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:45:31 +0000 Beth Moszkowicz http://lawyersusaonline.com/?p=88866 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.

DJ Christopher
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]]> http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/10/30/md-jury-awards-5-6m-in-warrant-snafu/feed/ 0 Maryland judge shuts down fake bankruptcy law firm  http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/10/29/judge-shuts-down-fake-law-firm/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/10/29/judge-shuts-down-fake-law-firm/#comments Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:32:47 +0000 Kristi Tousignant http://lawyersusaonline.com/?p=88794 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.

Holding himself out as “A. Michael Scalia,” Michael A. Mancini ran Scalia & Seidel LLC, decking it
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]]> http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/10/29/judge-shuts-down-fake-law-firm/feed/ 0 Parents claim wrongful death due to energy drink  http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/10/26/parents-claim-wrongful-death-due-to-energy-drink/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/10/26/parents-claim-wrongful-death-due-to-energy-drink/#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:34:06 +0000 Lisa Keen http://lawyersusaonline.com/?p=88784 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.

In Crossland v. Monster Beverage
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]]> http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/10/26/parents-claim-wrongful-death-due-to-energy-drink/feed/ 0 Fired 70-year-old to receive $235K for wrongful firing  http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/10/25/fired-70-year-old-to-receive-235k/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/10/25/fired-70-year-old-to-receive-235k/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:09:54 +0000 Steve Lash http://lawyersusaonline.com/?p=88752 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.

Andrew Johnson, then 70, was terminated from his positions
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]]> http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/10/25/fired-70-year-old-to-receive-235k/feed/ 0 Deprived dad wins $720K  http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/10/19/deprived-dad-wins-720k/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/10/19/deprived-dad-wins-720k/#comments Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:40:17 +0000 Beth Moszkowicz http://lawyersusaonline.com/?p=88646 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
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]]> http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/10/19/deprived-dad-wins-720k/feed/ 0 Roofer wins $7M for highway collision  http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/10/09/roofer-wins-7m-for-highway-collision/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/10/09/roofer-wins-7m-for-highway-collision/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:07:46 +0000 Barbara Grzincic http://lawyersusaonline.com/?p=88306 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.

Because of Maryland’s cap on non-economic damages, the Baltimore City Circuit judge reduced the award to Jamie Blake to $2.7 million after the verdict.


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]]> http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/10/09/roofer-wins-7m-for-highway-collision/feed/ 0 Md. top court declines to impose sanctions against lawyer  http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/09/26/md-top-court-declines-to-impose-sanctions-against-lawyer/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/09/26/md-top-court-declines-to-impose-sanctions-against-lawyer/#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:30:46 +0000 Kristi Tousignant http://lawyersusaonline.com/?p=88008 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.

The
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