The Baltimore Board of Estimates, a subcommittee of the Baltimore City Council, is expected to approve a $50,000 settlement related to a Baltimore middle school student. The family of a female student claims that she was victimized by a man working there who acted as her mentor.The settlement would resolve…
A Superior Court judge recently ruled to allow a wrongful death lawsuit to proceed against a church and its pastor. The lawsuit arises out of the circumstances surrounding the brutal rape and killing of a 35 year old church day-care employee by the church’s janitor. The woman’s husband and children…
A youth baseball league in Preston County is facing a lawsuit, brought on behalf of the estate of a man who died seven months after he allegedly fell off of the top row of bleachers at a little league baseball game. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the man’s…
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…