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Maryland Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Defendants In Medical Malpractice Case Involving Dispute Over Production Of Medical Records

March 6, 2026

Roxanne Hawkins alleged that before initiating her Maryland medical malpractice action, she asked Calvert Health Medical Center (“Calvert Health”) to send her her husband, Ronald Hawkins’s, medical records. Once she obtained therecords, she retained Dr. Matthew Grayson Tuck and asked him to pr[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Senate Bill Would Provide Maryland Health Care Providers Sued For Malpractice With An Unfair Advantage

February 17, 2019

Maryland Senate Bill 323, introduced on January 30, 2019, if enacted into law, would provide Maryland medical providers who are sued for medical negligence with an advantage over their injured victims. Senate Bill 323, with changes to existing law in capital letters, states: Article – Courts and J[...]

Maryland’s Highest Appellate Court Applies Immunity In Overturning Suicide Medical Malpractice Verdict

July 14, 2018

The Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), which is Maryland’s highest appellate court, held in its opinion filed on July 12, 2018 that “the process of involuntary admission begins with the initial application for involuntary admission of an individual and[...]

Proposed Maryland Law Would Require Physicians To Have Medical Malpractice Insurance

March 11, 2017

Maryland Senate Bill 195, which passed its Third Reading in the Maryland Senate on a vote of 45-to-zero on March 10, 2017, if signed into law as originally drafted, would require physicians licensed in Maryland to (1) maintain medical professional liability insurance in the amounts of $500,000 per [...]

Who’s Responsible For Your Doctor’s Negligence?

June 24, 2014

In an appellate decision by the Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Court of Appeals”) on June 19, 2014, a large Maryland malpractice verdict in favor of a woman who lost a portion of her foot due to the alleged medical malpractice of her podiatrist, who was a listed provider through her mana[...]

Some Maryland Legislators Seek To Harm The Most Vulnerable Medical Malpractice Victims

February 13, 2014

A proposed law being considered by the Maryland Senate is Senate Bill 798. This Bill would harm the most vulnerable (and some of the most catastrophically injured) medical malpractice victims — babies born with birth-related neurological injuries due to medical negligence and their devasta[...]

Informed Consent Claim In Maryland Medical Malpractice Cases

February 6, 2014

Medical malpractice claims often include a separate claim for lack of informed consent, which is a claim separate (and different) from a medical malpractice claim. A medical malpractice claim involves the allegation that a health care provider breached the applicable standard of care required unde[...]

$2.5M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Teen’s Misdiagnosed Cancer Death

January 27, 2014

On January 17, 2014, after a five-day medical malpractice trial, a Maryland jury in a very conservative jurisdiction returned its verdict in the amount of $2.5 million after finding a surgeon was medically negligent in failing to timely diagnose a 19-year-old’s cancer that resulted in her dea[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Insurance Rates Keep Dropping

January 16, 2014

In December 2013, the Medical Mutual Liability Insurance Society of Maryland (“Medical Mutual”), which insures more Maryland physicians than all other medical malpractice liability companies in Maryland combined, announced a special dividend of 25% for its policyholders for 2014 in a[...]

Court Says Maryland Medical Malpractice Jury Request Was Filed Too Late

September 29, 2012

In a recently filed Maryland medical malpractice appellate court decision that will make some Maryland medical malpractice plaintiff attorneys cringe, the highest appellate court in Maryland, the Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Court of Appeals”), decided an appeal more than six years a[...]

“Assumption Of Risk” Defense Not Available In Maryland Medical Malpractice Claim

June 28, 2012

In an appellate case decided on June 27, 2012 by the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (Maryland’s intermediate appellate court), the Court held “…except in cases involving a refusal or delay in undergoing recommended treatment or the pursuit of unconventional medical treatment,[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Pregnant Teens Who Lost Their Baby

February 24, 2012

Two 19-year-olds were looking forward to the birth of their baby. In preparation for the birth of a healthy baby, the expectant mother began prenatal visits with a gynecologist when she was six weeks pregnant. The pregnancy appeared to be progressing without difficulties. A couple of months after [...]

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