The family of a New Jersey man who was struck and killed by a Maryland State Police vehicle in 2017 filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday alleging negligence and wrongful death. Thomas Lawlor, 57, was in Ocean City for the Endless Summer Cruisin’ ...

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An Anne Arundel County jury awarded $1.9 million to the family of a woman killed in 2016 when her vehicle was struck by a trash truck. Janet E. Stomps’ family filed a wrongful death lawsuit in 2017 alleging negligence by ...

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ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s top court will consider whether the general prohibition on minor children suing their parents survives the child’s death, thus barring a youngster’s estate from suing a parent for wrongful death. The Court of Appeals this week agreed ...

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The family of Yeardley Love no longer believe it is entitled to her killer’s family homeowners’ insurance policy in the family’s wrongful death lawsuit, but George Huguely V continues to argue the insurance company must cover him. Sharon Love, the ...

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A Somerset County woman who claims a home care nurse’s negligence caused the death of her 34-month-old disabled child filed suit in federal court Monday. Sarah A. Wilford filed suit in U.S. District Court in Baltimore alleging medical malpractice by ...

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A Montgomery County jury awarded $1.3 million to the parents of a man who did not receive prompt medical care after going to the hospital with chest pain and died of complications from a heart attack. The verdict found the emergency ...

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A Frederick County jury awarded more than $700,000 to the family of a man who had a fatal heart attack in 2012 days after visiting doctors for chest pain. The jury found the doctor and physician’s assistant at Frederick Primary ...

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Andrew Racca was not in the courtroom Thursday when a jury handed down a $19.5 million verdict against him for the wrongful death of Carolyn Mattingly.

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The family of Yeardley Love will refile a wrongful death lawsuit in Virginia court and ask a Maryland judge not to dismiss a pending case about whether an insurance company must cover any damages awarded from the family of the ex-boyfriend who killed her in 2010.

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The Baltimore City Board of Estimates is set to approve a $30,000 settlement for the mother of a child struck and killed in a crash involving a driver fleeing from a police officer.

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