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Goodbye to ‘Goodbye Earl’: Baltimore’s Ottobar ordered to pay $18.5K over unlicensed songs by The Chicks, A-ha
Music companies were awarded more than $18,000 after Baltimore music venue Ottobar conceded liability for three karaoke performances.
Jury orders Johnson & Johnson to pay $966M in talc cancer case
A jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $966 million, finding the company liable in the latest trial alleging its talc products cause cancer.
MGM sues Vegas victims in hopes of limiting liability
MGM Resorts International sued the victims of a Las Vegas music festival mass shooting in an effort to block any potential compensation claims against it.
Yeardley Love’s mother seeks en banc 4th Circuit review of insurance policy denial
Yeardley Love's mother is still fighting for access to a $6 million insurance policy to cover potential damages in her wrongful death lawsuit against George Huguely V.
4th Circuit affirms denial of $6M policy to indemnify Yeardley Love’s killer
A $6 million insurance policy cannot be used to indemnify the man convicted of killing Yeardley Love in her mother's wrongful death lawsuit against him due to a clause excluding criminal activity, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
Mass. top court: Schools can be liable for suicides but clears MIT
Schools can be held liable for student suicides in certain circumstances, Massachusetts' highest court said Monday in a ruling that also cleared the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of responsibility for the death of a graduate student who killed himself on campus in 2009.
Patients’ pre-care conduct irrelevant in med-mal cases, Md. court says
Patients’ mistreatment of themselves before seeking medical care cannot later serve as a doctor’s defense against a malpractice claim, Maryland’s second-highest court ruled last week.
Amtrak bears the cost of accidents even if not at fault
WASHINGTON — Federal investigators are still looking at how CSX railway crews routed an Amtrak train into a parked freight train in Cayce, South Carolina, earlier this month. But even […]
‘We’ve got a crisis in Maryland’
The Maryland Hospital Association keeps a busy calendar during the legislative session in Annapolis. Carmela Coyle, the association’s president and CEO, said this year the organization would offer recommendations on […]
Md. Senate panel hears debate over changing negligent hiring liability
ANNAPOLIS – Members of the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee and plaintiffs’ attorneys expressed skepticism Tuesday at a hearing on a bill that would limit employer liability in specified industries to […]
Bill affecting Md. employer liability in negligent hiring suits to get first hearing
A bill that would exempt employers in certain industries from liability for negligent hiring or supervision of employees with a probation before judgment or conviction on their records is being […]
Corporate directors’ liability bill aims to clarify court-created confusion
Corporate-board directors who comply with the statutory obligations of good faith and related duties would be immune from liability in shareholder lawsuits following sales and acquisitions under legislation pending before the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee.
