The widow Baltimore police officer Norman Stamp is suing Officer John Torres, a fellow cop, for Maryland wrongful death. Stamp was shot by Torres outside a strip bar on April 22, 2008. While police contend that Stamp got into a confrontation with Torres, which prompted him to pull out his…
A Towson medical malpractice lawyer has filed claims on behalf of 101 patients accusing St. Joseph Medical Center and its former cardiologist Dr. Mark G. Midei of Maryland medical negligence, conspiracy, and fraud. Midei is accused of conducting hundreds of unnecessary cardiac stent procedures. Up to $30,000 is being sought…
Maryland has several new bicycle laws that are now in effect. Lawmakers are hoping that this will decrease the number of traffic that occur each year. According to preliminary data, Maryland State Police says that 10 people were killed in Maryland bicycle accidents in 2009. Over 650 bicyclists are injured…
A jury has awarded Yesenia Rivera $2.35 million for Maryland medical malpractice. Rivera, now a 28-year-old Silver Springs woman, had to have part of a leg and a portion of a foot amputated after doctors wrongly diagnosed a kidney blockage. Rivera had first sought treatment at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital…
Maryland State Police have charged El Soudani El-Wahhabi, also called Saladin Taylor, with first- and second-degree murder. El-Wahhabi, who is a patient at the at the Clifton T. Perkins mental hospital, is accused of killing Susan Sachs, who was also a resident at the Jessup facility. According to the Washington…
The Court of Appeals has upheld a state law that limits how much plaintiffs can receive for pain and suffering. They issued their decision regarding Maryland’s damages cap in the Anne Arundel County wrongful death case involving Connor Freed, the 5-year-old boy who drowned in a swimming pool at the…
A jury has awarded a 79-year-old woman a $1.1 million Baltimore medical malpractice verdict over injuries she sustained while undergoing gallbladder surgery. In her Maryland medical malpractice lawsuit, Phyllis Rode accused Dr. Chiau-Wen Hsiao of cutting her hepatic duct while taking her gallbladder out. Hsiao is a general surgeon at…
At John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on Thursday morning, a gunman who became distraught about his mother’s medical care shot and injured a doctor before turning the gun on his mom and himself. Paul Warren Pardus the alleged shooter, and his mother Jean did not survive their injuries. According to…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently issued its 2009 Traffic Safety Facts Research Note, which includes its motor vehicle traffic crash statistics for the year. According to the NHTSA, 33,808 people were killed in auto collisions in the US, which was a 9.7% drop from the 37,423 people that…
The Maryland Board of Physicians has ordered Dr. Steven Brigham, Dr. Nicola Riley, and George Shepard Jr. to stop practicing medicine in the state. The order comes following a botched abortion last month that left an 18-year-old with a uterine perforation. The abortion was performed at a facility in Elkton,…