ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Legal Newsline) - A woman who says a mixed-martial arts training gym discriminated against her for complaining about a comment one of the instructors made about left-handed people has no further avenue for appeal after a district court rejected her claim, Maryland's highest court ruled.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Legal Newsline) - The City of Baltimore isn’t liable for the death of a worker who was suffocated under tons of dirt while working on a broken pipe, a Maryland appeals court ruled, saying the city had no duty to protect employees of an independent contractor.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Legal Newsline) - A law firm in the business of collecting homeowner association and condominium dues isn’t a “lender” under the Maryland Consumer Loan Law, the state's highest court ruled, answering a central question in a class action in federal court by delinquent property owners.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Legal Newsline) - Maryland’s highest court expanded the liability of hospitals by ruling a patient treated by a doctor working as an independent contractor in the emergency room was entitled to a $6.1 million jury verdict against the hospital as well under the theory the physician was an “apparent agent” of the facility.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Legal Newsline) - A Maryland appeals court upheld the state’s ban on “loss of chance” lawsuits, where plaintiffs argue a doctor’s negligence caused someone to die sooner than they otherwise would have, rejecting a man’s claim an oncologist failed to catch a metastatic lesion in his wife’s shoulder blade.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Legal Newsline) - Plaintiff lawyers who purchased decades-old samples of chalk on eBay for an expert to test for asbestos didn’t have to establish a chain of custody proving they hadn’t been tampered with, a Maryland appeals court ruled, saying a jury must decide if the samples were authentic.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Legal Newsline) - A mother who won a $500,000 jury award for household services she said she expected to receive from her deceased daughter failed to prove she could reasonably expect the help, the Maryland's highest court has ruled, upholding an appeals court denial of pecuniary damages in a wrongful death case.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Legal Newsline) - Courts are giving defendants a few things to cheer about regarding the admissibility of evidence presented by expert witnesses.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Legal Newsline) – On the rare occasions that defendants make their own medical malpractice claims, they still need to help a jury understand what they’re alleging, Maryland’s highest court has ruled.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Legal Newsline) – The Court of Appeals of Maryland has reversed a Court of Special Appeals ruling that allowed a former Maryland dental office manager to stay her defamation civil suit until the end of her related criminal case.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Legal Newsline) – In its majority opinion, the Court of Appeals of Maryland recently stated that a lower court did not abuse its discretion in a case involving a $7.2 million jury award to a former Honeywell employee who claims he was was injured because of asbestos exposure and affirmed the judgment.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Legal Newsline) – The Maryland Court of Appeals has remanded a case against a debt collector that previously resulted in a $25 million judgment back for a retrial on the issue of damages.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Legal Newsline) – The Court of Appeals of Maryland determined that a couple of instructions given to a jury in a medical malpractice case in which the doctor was found negligent was not an abuse of a lower court’s discretion.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Legal Newsline) – Thanks to a branded jobber contract, a man selling BP gasoline at a service station isn’t entitled to the Four Cent Rule, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland held on Jan. 2.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Legal Newsline) – Hookah smokers in Baltimore County, Maryland, will have to continue to get their puffs in before midnight following a recent decision by a Maryland appeals court that a county ordinance setting a curfew for hookah lounges is constitutional.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Legal Newsline) –The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland has upheld a Circuit Court for Prince George’s County ruling against an employee who was fired from the University of Maryland College Park allegedly without cause.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Legal Newsline) – The Court of Special Appeals in Maryland has affirmed the Circuit Court for Baltimore City's ruling favoring a company accused of causing death due to mesothelioma.
