A man recently filed a lawsuit against a surgeon, a cosmetic surgery company, and its parent company, on behalf of his daughter whom he claims died following a liposuction procedure at the facility. The suit claims that the woman died following the procedure in which the surgeon purportedly anesthetized by…
The design defect lawsuit filed by parents on behalf of their minor son, who became permanently injured when his Christmas gift of a Kawasaki motorcycle crashed, survived a motion to dismiss earlier this month. The couple bought a new Kawasaki motorcycle as a Christmas present for their minor son in…
The mother of a 3 year old boy who was tragically killed in a helicopter crash last month in northeastern Pennsylvania was the first to file a lawsuit in connection with the accident. She is seeking unspecified damages from two aviation companies and the pilot’s estate. The plaintiff sued Virginia-based…
A victory was recently reported in a lawsuit against C.R. Bard, the manufacturer of the Avaulta line of vaginal mesh devices. The jury ordered the company to pay a Georgia woman $2 million for her serious injuries. The individual lawsuit was filed on behalf of a plaintiff whose vaginal mesh…
The family of a woman injured in a golf cart accident at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo in February recently filed a personal injury lawsuit on her behalf. The woman was reportedly a volunteer at the rodeo for some 30 years. She now remains in a coma, as a…
The Maryland Court of Appeals refused to create a “dram shop” law when it ruled earlier this month that a bar cannot be held liable for the actions of a drunken patron after he or she departs. The case was originally argued in March, on behalf of a family whose…
A Baltimore judge recently refused to toss out a lawsuit against Morgan State University surrounding a violent attack by a student against a visitor. The school urged the judge to dismiss the lawsuit, claiming that the beating was not foreseeable given the student’s behavior, and noted that the student didn’t…
Maryland’s highest state court, the Court of Appeals, ruled earlier this month to uphold Maryland’s long standing, yet uncommon, manner of handling negligence cases. The rule it upheld, referred to as the Contributory Negligence Rule, prevents plaintiffs from recovering anything in a negligence cause of action, if they are shown…
Howard County police have released information regarding the traffic accident that left one 40 year old highway worker from Baltimore dead. Police say the man, who was a state highway contractor, was closing a lane of state Route 216 in the Scaggsville area when he was hit by a Chevrolet…
A mother filed suit against Monster Beverage Corp., this week, alleging that her teenage son’s death from cardiac arrhythmia was attributable to his habitual consumption of the company’s energy drink. The woman’s son was taken to the hospital for cardiac arrest, and died shortly thereafter. Monster released a statement in…