False arrest, beating claims settled for $500,000 
By:
Steve Lash
Published: September 18, 2012
Tags: battery, civil rights, false arrest, false imprisonment, grandparent, intentional infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy, kidnapping, loss of consortium, Maryland, police, prison
A Baltimore, Md. grandfather who was beaten while in jail with his wife on allegedly trumped-up charges of kidnapping their grandchild will receive $500,000 from the city under a recently approved out-of-court settlement.
Cashier with cancer gets $100,000 settlement
By:
Steve Lash
Published: September 11, 2012
Tags: cancer, Home Depot, Maryland, wrongful termination
Home Depot U.S.A. Inc. will pay $100,000 to a part-time Towson, Md. cashier the retailer allegedly fired because she had cancer, under a settlement the company reached last week with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Jury awards $760K for crash which resulted in fatality
By:
Ben Mook
Published: August 16, 2012
Tags: car accident, contributory negligence, Maryland, negligence, wrongful death
The family of a 24-year-old woman killed in a traffic accident in Baltimore in 2010 was awarded $760,000 by a city jury.
County settles discrimination lawsuit
Published: August 8, 2012
Tags: Maryland, medical records, privacy, workplace discrimination
Baltimore County, Md. has agreed to pay $475,000 to settle a workplace discrimination lawsuit brought on behalf of employees who said they were made to undergo overly broad and unnecessary medical examinations that had nothing to do with their jobs.
Jury awards $21M for birth injury-induced cerebral palsy
Published: August 2, 2012
Tags: birth injury, cerebral palsy, hospital, Maryland
A Maryland jury has awarded $21 million to a family whose son suffers from cerebral palsy due to complications during his birth.
Chief justice lets state resume DNA collections on arrest
Published: July 20, 2012
Tags: Chief Justice John G. Roberts, DNA evidence, Fourth Amendment, Maryland, police
Maryland police can temporarily resume collecting DNA samples from people arrested for violent crimes, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ruled on Wednesday.
Teen horse farm worker gets $274K for on-the-job injury
By:
Ben Mook
Published: July 10, 2012
Tags: bodily injury, independent contractor, Maryland
A Maryland jury has backed a teenage horse farm worker’s argument that when she was injured on the job, she was an employee and not a contract worker.
Jury awards $55 million for birth injury
By:
Ben Mook
Published: June 29, 2012
Tags: birth injury, cerebral palsy, Maryland
Plaintiffs attorneys H. Briggs Bedigian (left), Gary A. Wais (center), and Keith D. Forman (right) of Wais, Vogelstein & Bedigian LLC in Pikesville, Md.
A Baltimore jury has awarded $55 million to a couple whose newborn suffered cerebral palsy and other serious medical problems during his birth at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2010 – a verdict that led Hopkins to say it was “stunned” and plans to appeal.
Maryland jury awards $20.9 million in med-mal case
By:
Steve Lash
Published: June 20, 2012
Tags: birth injury, Maryland, medical malpractice, pain and suffering, paralysis
A Maryland jury has awarded $20.9 million – including $20 million for pain and suffering – to the family of a 6-year-old boy who suffered permanent paralysis in his left arm when the obstetrician pulled on his head during delivery.
City backs out of $150,000 settlement with family of teen allegedly kidnapped by police
Published: June 14, 2012
Tags: kidnapping, Maryland, police, teenager
Attorneys representing City Hall have abruptly backed out of a $150,000 settlement agreement with the family of a teen allegedly kidnapped by Baltimore police.
