Year: 2012
The Maryland State Highway Administration will review the report regarding a fatal motor vehicle accident to determine if a Gaithersburg intersection could use a safety upgrade. The response is in reaction to a Sept. 23 accident that left a 69-year-old woman dead and the 77-year-old driver critically injured. Some residents of the area said the woman might […]
Employees in Maryland and across the U.S. who suffer from insomnia make nearly 275,000 mistakes each year that can cause them or their co-workers to get hurt on the job. Additionally, the lack of sleep can lead to more than $30 billion in lost productivity because of workplace mistakes and accidents. This figure is according to […]
In a bit of good news for workers in Maryland and across the country, the number of workers across the United States who die after being hurt on the job has fallen steadily during the past decade, largely due to employers, industry groups and workers having committed to a safer workplace, an expert said. In 2011, […]
A Maryland man who says he was hurt on the job has sued the operator of the underground coal mine where he worked, as well as an employment agency that hires contract employees and sends them to a variety of mines. In his lawsuit, the man states he was working for the agency on Aug. 30, 2011, […]
Companies across Maryland and the rest of the U.S. that do not offer sick leave are more likely to have workers hurt on the job, according to a report from a federal agency. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health said that workers whose companies offer sick pay […]
Representatives of a Maryland man who suffered life-threatening injuries in a car accident likely will file a personal injury lawsuit. The only question is the identity of the defendant or defendants. The accident occurred on Aug. 18 at a car wash in Edgewater, Maryland. The man, 45, was waiting at the car was when a 2007 GMC […]
A Maryland man will spend 30 months in prison for his role in a car accident that left an 18-year-old student dead. Last fall, the man, 23, was ferrying six fellow students in his small car near the military college they attended in another state. He lost control of the car on a curve and it went […]
A man who was texting while driving will pay $500,000 to a couple for causing an accident that resulted in them each losing a leg. The married couple was riding on a motorcycle in a mid-Atlantic state near Maryland in September of 2009 when a driver, then 19, left his lane and crossed into the motorcycle’s lane, […]
Two years after a Baltimore car accident took the life of a 24-year-old woman, a jury has ruled that the victim’s family should receive $760,000 in compensation. The woman was traveling through the intersection of 28th and North Calvert streets in Baltimore when her car collided with a SUV in June 2010. Her insurance company denied a […]
Two recent cases in the Baltimore area underscore the price that jurors put on compensating victims of medical malpractice for their losses, and that has left the area medical community worried. We wrote about one of the cases recently. In that case, the family of a baby suffered a brain injury after medical staff did not promptly […]