Police are investigating a fatal bicycle crash that happened the evening of Friday, October 7, 2011 in Severna Park, Maryland. A 40 year-old cyclist sustained fatal injuries after a car struck him from behind on northbound Veterans Highway. The collision drove the man into the car’s windshield. Police responded shortly…
A lawsuit filed on September 15, 2011 alleges that the Kennedy Krieger Institute, a Baltimore research facility associated with Johns Hopkins University that cares for disabled children, exposed multiple children to lead poisoning during a study of lead paint conducted by the Institute in the 1990s. The class action suit…
A lawsuit against the state of Maryland and various state departments, state officials, and state employees may proceed to trial according to a ruling by Baltimore City Circuit Judge Sylvester B. Cox. The trial is scheduled to begin October 11, 2011. At issue is whether state officials and employees were…
A four-vehicle automobile accident in Benedict, Maryland, around noon on Friday, September 9, 2011 killed two local senior citizens and injured at least three others. Franz and Evelyn Isabelle Sommer, a married couple, were driving east on Route 231 in their Ford Focus near the Patuxent River Bridge when a…
Restrictions placed on teenagers’ driving privileges has led to a decrease in the number of fatal automobile accidents among 16-year-olds. Research suggests, however, that the risk may simply have shifted to older teens, as a corresponding rise in traffic fatalities has occurred among 18-year-olds. A study published in the September…
A lawsuit filed in a U.S. District Court in Maryland seeks to hold a bar liable for injuries sustained in a 2008 boating accident. Early in the morning on June 5, 2008 a ski boat carrying 10 people crashed into an abutment on the Route 90 bridge in Ocean City,…
The family of Ankush Gupta is suing Wayne Black for Maryland wrongful death. Black, 21, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in Gupta’s drowning. Now, the victim’s loved ones are seeking $5 million in damages. Gupta was 22. Prosecutors say that in 2008, Black asked Gupta, who had stopped at Inner…
A jury has awarded the family of Lawrence Dixon $2.5 million for his Maryland wrongful death that was a result of Montgomery County medical malpractice. Dixon, 59, died on May 17, 2007 two days after he suffered a pelvic fracture during a fall accident. According to the family’s Montgomery County…
A Montgomery County jury has awarded the family of Xiufeng Wang and Yunshu Li $2.032 million for Wang’s Maryland personal injuries and Li’s wrongful death. The elderly couple were hit by a dump truck in a backover accident On October 9, 2008. Wang, 78, fractured his back and wrist. His…
Two families have filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over a 2008 immigration raid targeting Annapolis Painting Services. The plaintiffs are alleging police brutality and the violation of their civil rights and they are seeking $2.5 million in damages. With the help of immigrant…