In Ford v. Edmondson Village Shopping Center Holdings, LLC , Maryland Appellate Court examined the question of a landlord’s responsibility in protecting tenants from criminal acts committed by third parties on the landlord’s property. Thankfully, the court found that an employee of a commercial tenant is considered to have the…
Yesterday I googled the name of our personal injury law firm “Miller & Zois.” I was doing some research and I knew our page had the answer I needed. When I did the search, I found a paid ad result for “Big Al Legal Team – Car Accident Lawyer Baltimore.”…
Distracted driving is a big thing these days thanks to the proliferation of smartphones and the millions of people in the U.S. who are hopelessly addicted to using them. As recently as 10 years ago, distracted driving was not really even a “thing.” As of 2021, however, distracted driving claims…
In Giant of Maryland LLC v. Karen Webb, No. 413, Sept. Term 2019, was asked to decide whether Giant could be liable for an injury to a customer caused by a Pepsi delivery driver while stocking Pepsi products on the shelves. The Pepsi driver was not a Giant employee so…
The discovery of a carcinogenic chemical in the popular heartburn drug Zantac prompted thousands of victims to file a Zantac lawsuit. The Zantac lawsuits in federal courts have been consolidated into a “class-action” MDL before Judge Robin Rosenberg in the Southern District of Florida. Judge Rosenberg is meeting with counsel…
In Thomas v. Shear, the Court of Appeals held in an unreported opinion that a malpractice claim alleging a surgical clip was left inside a patient in 2000 was barred by the statute of limitations. Although the surgical clip was not actually discovered in the plaintiff’s body until 14 years…
In Williams v. Baltimore City, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland examined the establishment of actual or constructive notice. The court found that the mere fact that a municipality knows of a defective hydrant does not ordinarily include notice of a particular danger. Rather, there must be actual or…
The Maryland Court of Appeals is still working during the coronavirus shutdown. The court put out a new opinion Monday in Nationwide v. Shilling that addressed the question of when the 3-year statute of limitations begins to run on a claim for underinsured motorist benefits. The gist of the court’s…
Maryland nursing home lawyers have been battling arbitration clauses for years. These clauses deny nursing home residents the right to take nursing homes to court for harm that they cause to the residents such as physical abuse and neglect and sexual assault. Almost everyone realizes nursing homes force these agreements…
Defense lawyers in love blaming empty chairs. A jury trial is about assigning blame and the easy out for the defense is to get the jury to blame another doctor who is not named at trial. (This is also why plaintiffs’ lawyers get maligned over naming too many defendants —…