ANNAPOLIS — Representatives from about 25 businesses and municipalities pressed a House committee Wednesday to approve legislation to codify Maryland‘s common-law ban on plaintiffs in personal injury ...

Court of Appeals Judge Robert N. McDonald (Capital News Service) Maryland judges will no longer visit the sins of a driver upon the vehicle’s owner with regard to contributory negligence claims, the ...

Dr. W was devastated to hear of her patient’s death, and felt guilty, in hindsight, for not considering diabetes since she was aware that the young man had a family history of the disease. She was too ...

"Defendants acknowledged at oral argument that the record does not tell us whether the alleged hand-soaking occurred before or after the sutures were removed. But if Butts-Franklin had soaked her hand ...

On Friday a unanimous D.C. Circuit panel (in Whiteru v. WMATA) reversed a district-court ruling by Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in 2020. The case involved claims that the Washington Metropolitan Area ...

A local woman’s attempt to recover damages for her vehicle, damaged when a valet parked her car at Moses Cone Hospital, was thwarted by North Carolina's strict contributory negligence law. Joyce Reedy ...

The general rule is that drivers of vehicles who bumped the rear of another vehicle are presumed negligent. But in this case Rey is an exception. Also applied here is the rule on contributory ...

A client once took a health care provider to court for negligently diagnosing him as HIV positive while, in truth, he was HIV negative. The client sought damages for grave emotional distress, loss of ...

A patient is misdiagnosed twice and doesn't get a doctor recommended blood test, the patient subsequently died. Was there contributory negligence on behalf of the patient? In this month’s case we look ...