A Charles County jury has awarded $1.1 million to a Friendship man who sustained a permanent lower back injury in a vehicle collision in 2015. Steven Mudd was driving on Route 925 in Waldorf on May 21, 2015 when he collided ...

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A Montgomery County jury awarded approximately $645,000 on Friday to the family of Montgomery Village man who died from heart complications following elective back surgery. Robert Suryadeth was 64 when he went to his doctor to be cleared for surgery ...

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An Upper Marlboro man’s lawsuit under a federal anti-patient-dumping statute will proceed after a judge found claims that Prince George’s Hospital Center’s failure to perform surgery in a timely manner may have led to the amputations of the plaintiff’s legs. ...

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A Prince George’s County jury has awarded $1 million to a Fort Washington woman who developed lung cancer after her gynecologist failed to properly follow up on results of a hysterectomy. The jury deliberated for approximately 90 minutes Thursday before finding ...

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An Anne Arundel County judge reduced the damages award to a man whose dog was shot by police by more than $1 million Friday after the county requested the verdict be remitted to comply with statutory caps. Michael Reeves was ...

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A Montgomery County jury Wednesday awarded $545,000 to a 7-year-old girl who was bitten by a pit bull owned by her father’s landlord in 2012. The girl, who has scarring on her leg, required five surgeries and has post-traumatic stress, ...

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A Prince George’s County jury has awarded $8 million to a minor who was sexually assaulted in a Forestville apartment complex which failed to increase its security despite a history of problems with crime. The jury returned the verdict after ...

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A Baltimore County Circuit Court jury has awarded more than $450,000 to the family of a man who died from metastatic lung cancer after his primary care physician did not follow-up on lung scans showing an abnormality. Carl Palmer, a ...

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ROCKVILLE – Montgomery County did everything it should have in hiring a trusted engineer and general contractor to design and build the Silver Spring transit center, but negligence and misrepresentations delayed the opening for years and led to millions of ...

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A Baltimore jury awarded $2 million Thursday to a woman who slipped and fell at a senior living apartment complex and fractured her ankle and leg. The injury occurred during a snowstorm in February 2014 and the owners of Park ...

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