The family of a Baltimore man killed in a 2012 bar shooting is suing the owners for negligence and wrongful death, alleging the bar failed to protect him despite knowing patrons routinely carried deadly weapons on the premises. Clarence L. ...

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A settlement has been reached between an Ocean City bar and a Pennsylvania man who sued for injuries he allegedly sustained by tripping over equipment on the stage in 2011. Lester M. Bender sough more than $5 million in damages ...

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Amazon will not only sell you just about anything under the sun, they will also apparently come set it up if assembly or installation is required. A Baltimore woman took advantage of this offering and paid an extra fee to ...

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A North Carolina woman has filed suit against Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore on behalf of herself and her deceased infant daughter, alleging the hospital staff was negligent in releasing her without proper treatment when she went to the emergency ...

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An Annapolis trial attorney will face a $300,000 negligence lawsuit brought by a former client who alleges the attorney’s failure to disclose an expert witness doomed his personal injury case against the state of Maryland. The lawsuit, filed in Baltimore City Circuit Court on Monday, further claims that Paul S. Blumenthal violated the Maryland Lawyers’ Rules of Professional Conduct by not explaining to his client, David Harding, the significance of his failure to disclose the witness. Harding had retained Blumenthal to represent him after he was injured in a 2006 motorcycle accident he said was caused by a sinkhole formed after a section of the state highway he was driving on collapsed.

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With more than $1.75 million at stake, Maryland’s top court said it will consider whether a pharmaceutical company should be held financially liable for negligently failing to warn doctors about a drug’s potentially carcinogenic side effect even though the cancer victim contributed to the fatal disease by smoking cigarettes.

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Appellant was badly injured after being struck by a car driven by an intoxicated eighteen-year-old. Appellee allegedly provided alcohol to the underaged driver. The circuit court granted summary judgment for appellee on the grounds that Maryland does not hold social hosts liable for the injuries caused by their intoxicated guests

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Michael Banks worked at the Flying Dog Brewery in Frederick, Maryland; he operated a forklift that moved pallets of beer kegs in the brewery’s cooler. On March 23, 2009, a co-worker found him in the cooler lying unconscious next to the forklift, and he died a day later.

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Did the circuit court err by ruling that, as a matter of law, the operator of an outpatient methadone clinic owed no duty of care to third parties?

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A federal judge has allowed a lawsuit to move forward against three Frederick County sheriff's deputies in the death of a young man with Down syndrome.

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