Personal Injury Cases
in Cecil County, Maryland


      Cecil County, located in northeastern Maryland at the head of the Chesapeake Bay bordering Pennsylvania, has a relatively small circuit court with three Circuit Court judges: Hon. Richard Jackson, Hon. Dexter M. Thompson, Jr. and Hon. O. Robert Lidums. The Cecil County Circuit Court sits in Elkton.

    Most Maryland medical malpractice and accident lawyers view Cecil County as an average jurisdiction to try personal injury jury trials on behalf of injury victims. There have been a number of medical malpracitce verdicts in Cecil County. In August, 2007, there was a $646,000 jury verdict in Cecil County million medical malpractice verdict (in a case where the medical malpractice insurance company made no offer). In 2000, a Cecil County jury awarded man $ 1.6 million last week because a radiologist misread a diagnostic test showing a blood clot and there was a $1.6 million verdict in a failure to diagnose Lyme disease case in 1999. A few malpractice verdicts may not be impressive to non-medical malpractice lawyers, but plaintiffs' verdicts are typically difficult in rural counties in Maryland. Particularly given the relatively small number of medical malpractice cases that are filed in Cecil County, these verdicts show Cecil County juries will not assume that a doctor is always right.

     Because I-95 comes right through Cecil County, there a number of serious truck accident cases that are venued in Cecil County. In these cases, jurors have been very reasonable. In 2003, there was a jury verdict of $3.25 million in a personal injury truck accident case in Cecil County.

     Our accident lawyers handle a substantial number of our personal injury cases in Cecil County. If you have been injured in a motor vehicle accident or by medical malpractice in Cecil County, call our lawyers at 800-553-8082 or select here for a free consultation.

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