A Baltimore jury awarded $350,000 on Tuesday to a woman who bit into a screw in her nachos at a Chili’s restaurant in Timonium. Caresa Smith cracked three teeth in May 2018 and needed two root canals and three permanent ...

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A Howard County jury awarded a woman nearly $800,000 last week for spinal injuries she sustained in a 2015 crash that left her with chronic pain. Ryan Primrose, now 34, was the passenger in a van operated by CareMed Transportation ...

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A Harford County jury awarded more than $1.2 million in damages to a woman who injured her back in a rear-end collision in 2012. Jodi Glaser was awarded more than $220,000 in economic damages for past and future medical expenses ...

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An Olney man injured in a vehicle collision in 2011 has elected to accept a drastically reduced damages award rather than challenge the reduction or have a new trial after a judge ruled last month that the jury’s award “shocked the conscience.” ...

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A New York man who was paralyzed after falling head-first down the stairs of a historic submarine docked in Baltimore's Inner Harbor has filed suit.

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Watch out for the mechanical gate the next time you walk in a parking garage. An Upper Marlboro woman is suing Johns Hopkins Hospital after she says a gate in one of the hospital’s garages hit her in the head ...

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They hired Neil J. Lewis to represent them after they were injured in car accidents. But some of his former clients are now finding themselves back in court to pay their portion of what could be more than a $1 million in medical bills Lewis was supposed to pay out of settlement proceeds, a transgression that led to his disbarment.

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Personal injury lawyers get painted in a bad light for filing meritless cases over trivial or nonexistent injuries. But today, it is insurance companies, not plaintiff lawyers, who provoke needless personal injury litigation in cases where the injuries are modest.

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An Eastern Shore couple has been awarded more than $1 million in damages after a car accident involving a semi-tractor hauling farm equipment cost a man an eye.

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Attorneys for an injured boy’s parents and a national chain battled Tuesday at Maryland’s highest court over whether parents can sign away their children’s right to recover for injuries they might sustain in a store’s play area.

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