Personal Injury Cases
in Cecil County, Maryland
Cecil County,
located in northeastern Maryland at the head of the Chesapeake Bay bordering Pennsylvania, has a small circuit court with two relatively new Circuit Court judges (and one vacancy): V. Michael Whelan and Keith A. Baynes. 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 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. In truck accident cases, the question of whether the jury is conservative becomes less important: in serious injury and death cases, the differences between jurors considerably narrows.
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.
Related Cecil County Personal Injury Accident and Medical Malpractice Information
- Judge Richard E. Jackson Named Administrative Judge in Cecil County
- Named Driver Exclusion in Maryland (a Cecil County truck accident case)
- Discussion of Maryland Lawyers on Cecil County as a Venue
- Sample Cecil County Scheduling Order (in an accident case)
- Cecil County Case Managment Plan (for cases in Circuit Court)
- Sample Cecil County Police Report (example police report in accident case)
- $3 Million Motorcycle Accident Verdict (overturned on appeal)
- Cecil County Accident Verdict (includes commentary on Cecil County jurors)