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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 […]
An elderly woman was killed and her husband was injured after a car accident on Interstate 81 near Hagerstown Regional Airport. It appears the cause was someone driving recklessly. Maryland State Police reported that the woman, 80, was a passenger in a 2011 Cadillac SRX driven by her 83-year-old husband. They were traveling southbound when a 20-year-old […]
A Glen Burnie, Maryland, man faces sentencing in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court, after pleading guilty to causing a motor vehicle accident that seriously injured three people. Police said the man had told them he was late for his nephew’s birthday party, so he traveled at speeds of nearly 90 mph at times, passing cars in […]
Some car accidents that could have happened in Maryland on the evening on June 29 would have been the blame of the state, which needs to alter its policies when faced when pending potentially devastating weather, one roads expert said. The expert said that on that evening, the National Weather Service broadcast to Maryland residents that a […]