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Attorney blasts firing from BP settlement program
NEW ORLEANS — An attorney who was fired by the court-supervised administrator of BP‘s settlement with Gulf Coast businesses and residents is demanding to be reinstated with back pay. In […]
Worker, 71, settles ADA suit with Baltimore Co.
Baltimore County will pay more than $130,000, including about $93,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs, to settle claims it required a road-maintenance worker to take unnecessary medical tests and then forced him from his job based on the results.
4th Circuit panel affirms $1.6 million award in slip-and-fall case
A ship owner’s lawyer plans to ask the full 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a nearly $1.6 million award to a Port of Baltimore longshoreman who suffered career-ending injuries when he slipped on ice in 2007.
Electrocuted laborer’s widow wins lawsuit
A Baltimore County jury on Friday awarded $3.8 million to the widow and two adult children of a man who was electrocuted while loading steel beams onto a tractor trailer parked under a power line.
This time, Court of Appeals rules for asbestos victim
Maryland’s top court Thursday reinstated a $3 million award to the family of a Western Maryland woman who died of mesothelioma as the result of her husband’s exposure to asbestos in Ford Motor Co. brakes in the 1960s through the mid-1970s.
Court of Special Appeals splits wins in back-to-back stent cases
St. Joseph Medical Center cannot appeal an order that required it to disclose the names and addresses of hundreds of former patients who were notified they might have received unnecessary stents, the Court of Special Appeals held Monday.
Trucking firm to pay $5M for fatal crash on I-81
A Dallas-based trucking company has agreed to pay $5 million to the widow and four children of Leroy Corbin, who was killed when a tractor trailer plowed into his car on an interstate outside Hagerstown early last year.
Baxano to pay $6M in Medicare fraud settlement
Spinal device maker Baxano Surgical Inc. will pay the government $6 million to settle claims that it encouraged doctors to overcharge federal health programs and paid kickbacks to physicians. The […]
Justice: Hospitals to pay $34 million settlement
ST. LOUIS — Fifty-five hospitals in 21 states have agreed to pay $34 million to the U.S. government to settle allegations that they used more expensive inpatient procedures rather than […]
Realities of Real Estate: Road to settlement may be bumpy
Whether you’re buying a house or selling a house, signing the contract is only the beginning of what can be a long and sometimes arduous journey to the settlement table. Normally, it all goes off without a hitch, and the typical real estate transaction can usually be completed in less than a month. But there are other times when the unexpected can pop up and threaten to derail even the best-laid[...]
City to settle student bullying suit for $45K
The Baltimore City Board of Estimates is slated to approve the settlement of a lawsuit filed by a mother who said her daughter was assaulted and verbally harassed by another classmate.
