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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A Baltimore city jury has awarded $1 million to the family of a 22-year-old woman who died after being improperly treated for a skin infection which developed into a flesh-eating disease. The family of Yenita D. Owens was awarded $500,000 ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. –  A veteran Henderson County judge overreached when he amended a jury verdict awarding $1 in a wrongful death medical malpractice suit and entered a substitute judgment of more than $500,000, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ...

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A Prince George’s County jury has found a pediatrician was not liable for the death of an infant, determining she complied with the standard of care when she examined him days before his death. The parents of Momodo Bundu, who ...

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The three-year deadline for filing a wrongful-death lawsuit does not start for children until they reach age 18, Maryland’s top court unanimously rules.

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