Pepco has reached a settlement with a former contractor originally awarded nearly $36 million from a Montgomery County jury after was electrocuted and paralyzed from the neck down in a workplace accident. The jury verdict in favor of Hugo Hernandez Palomino came in October following a six-day jury trial in Montgomery County Circuit Court. The jury award included approximately $19 million for future medical expenses and $15 million for noneconomic damages, which would have been capped at $770,000.

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That plaintiffs’ lawyers are not fans of Maryland’s cap on noneconomic damages is well known. But one personal injury firm has made an unusual end-around in an effort to evade the cap.

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A former employee of Lockheed Martin Corp. has been awarded $830,000 in a retaliation lawsuit against the company.

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A Rockville company on the hook for an $8 million judgment it owes a former landlord has suffered two legal setbacks this month.

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A lawsuit filed by a youth soccer organization over who gets to help build and use turf fields at Montgomery County high schools can proceed, a judge has ruled.

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A Montgomery County Circuit Court judge has awarded a Washington, D.C. law firm nearly $160,000 in unpaid attorneys’ fees from a Rockville company.

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A Rockville company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Wednesday minutes before three of its properties were scheduled to be auctioned to help satisfy an $8 million judgment it owes a former landlord, halting any potential sale.

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Three properties along Rockville Pike, including a shopping center assessed at more than $37 million, will be up for auction this week as part of a long-running legal dispute between the former owner of a different Rockville office building and one its tenants.

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A Montgomery County inmate has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the county alleging she was sexually assaulted by a corrections officer on July 6.

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A Montgomery County jury has rejected claims of negligence against a Bethesda doctor by a patient who alleges he continues to suffer from debilitating back pain.

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