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Maryland car and truck crash victims catch a break as legislature changes long-standing minimum car and truck insurance limit. After, decades of insurance industry resistance, the Maryland legislature has passed a law increasing the minimum required auto insurance limits to $30,000.00. What does this mean to car and truck crash victims? -
Get the latest information on car and truck crash safety! The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration offers lots of authoritative information on preventing car and big truck accidents. Where do they get their information? -
Car and truck crash reduction is the mission. Will new laws on distracted driving help? Many states have passed restrictive laws forbidding texting while driving and requiring hands-free cell phone use. Will this make our roadways safer? -
The Maryland damages cap in personal injury and wrongful deaths cases has unfairly penalized the most catastrophically injured for years. Will Maryland's highest court recognize this and strike the cap? Maryland's non-economic damages cap has penalized the most severely injured for years. Is there any realistic prospect that the Court of Appeals will throw it out? -
Limits on Maryland WMATA injuries are not limited to maximum recovery of $200k. Could this spell something bigger for catastrophically injured Marylanders? Maryland's highest court ruled that the Maryland Tort Claims Act did not limit a victim of a Metro bus crash to no more than $200,000.00 in compensation. -
Toyota fined $16,375,000.00 for failure to report deadly pedal defect. Will this deter other car manufacturers from hiding their problems? Toyota's deadly gas pedal defect has caused crashes and taken lives. Their failure to report the defect has resulted in largest fine ever issued by the NHTSA. Will it make a difference? -
Metro keeps on having deadly incidents. Can this be fixed? Metro's Predilection for Deadly Accidents Brings Into Question Its Vaunted Safety Culture. What Is The Problem? -
Too many deaths for Metro employees and users, can this be fixed? Metro Bus and Train Safety Must be Improved. Will John Catoe's Departure Jump-Start This Process? -
Now more than ever Maryland Victims of Medical Malpractice Need Creative Lawyers. Here is why. Maryland's Highest Court Hands Doctors and Insurance Companies Yet Another Victory. -
Report on Metro safety culture reveals widespread problems and dangerous negligence. In the aftermath of the June 22, 2009 Fort Totten Metro crash the safety culture of Metro has been examined more closely. For Metro track workers and safety inspectors the results are disturbing. -
Maryland's highest court waded clumsily into the law of expert witnesses in Maryland medical malpractice cases in the recent case of University of Maryland Medical System Corporation, Et. Al. v. Waldt, Et. Al. Maryland medical negligence law has been configured to favor doctors, hospitals and health-care providers at every turn. Now the Court of Appeals has gotten into the act in a controversial split decision which mystifies more than it clarifies. -
Distorting the law to help doctors beat Maryland medical malpractice cases may backfire. Here is why. Maryland medical negligence cases have been distorted by the doctors and insurance companies wielding their huge political clout. This may backfire in the Maryland Court of Appeals. -
Pool and Spa Safety: No More Drownings? Pools and Spas Can be Deadly: Here is How to Keep Your Family Safe. -
The Top Two Safety Concerns For Commercial Trucks, Eighteen Wheelers and Semis. Collisions Involving Commercial Trucks, Semis and Eighteen Wheelers Can be Reduced or Prevented, Here's how. -
Will a Reduction of Long-Haul Trucker's Hours Reduce Eighteen-Wheeler Crashes? Fatigue and Driver Error Permeate Tractor-Trailer Crashes, Can We Change It? -
Why Tort Reform Saves Little and Endangers Patient's Health and Safety Opponents of Health Care Reform Blame the Skyrocketing Costs of Health Care on Medical Malpractice Victims. Senator Orrin Hatch (R) learned from the Non-Partisan Congressional Budget Office that "defensive medicine" costs very little and Saves Lives. -
Clark and Steinhorn are experienced medical malpractice lawyers and recent verdicts in the District of Columbia demonstrate that victims of medical negligence need the best representation they can get. Medical Malpractice verdicts in the Superior Court for the District of Columbia from 2007 to 2009 show why victims of medical mistakes need the best lawyers they can get.