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Former Baltimore Medical Malpractice Attorney’s Attempted Extortion Convictions Upheld

September 20, 2026

On July 14, 2026, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld the convictions for attempted extortion under the Hobbs Act and violations of the Travel Act. See 18 U.S.C. §§ 1951(b), 1952(a)(3), 1952(b)(2) against former Baltimore medical malpractice lawyer Stephen Snyder, who [...]

Maryland Appellate Court Discusses Mary Carter Agreements In Medical Malpractice Cases

May 11, 2026

Mary Carter Agreement The term “Mary Carter Agreement” applies to any agreement between the plaintiff and some (but less than all)defendants whereby the parties place limitations on the financial responsibility of the agreeing defendants, the amount of which is variable and usually in some inver[...]

Maryland Supreme Court Holds Medical Records Retrieval Company Cannot Charge Fee For Search That Finds No Records

July 12, 2025

The Maryland General Assembly enacted the Confidentiality of Medical Records Act, Md. Code Ann., Health-Gen. §§ 4-301 – 4-310 (2023 Repl.; 2024 Supp.), to protect the privacy of patients and maintain the confidentiality of medical records by establishing rules for the maintenance and disclosure [...]

$7.25M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death After Patient Taken Off Blood Thinner

December 19, 2024

In early December 2024, a Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $7.25 million for the death of a 23-year-old man due to being taken off his blood thinner by his hematologist, who advised him to take a baby aspirin instead. The man died in December 2021 in his bedroo[...]

Maryland Law Firm Loses Hospital Bed But Wins Legal Malpractice Claim

May 11, 2023

Firm Loses Hospital Bed But Wins Legal Malpractice Claim: In September 2013, Louis Nicassio was injured when the hospital bed he rented to recover from back surgery collapsed under him, and he hired Gregory Hopper of the law firm Bekman, Marder & Adkins, LLC (“BMA”) to represent him in a pro[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Reinstates $3.7M Gross Negligence Verdict Against Baltimore EMTs

October 25, 2018

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), in its unreported opinion filed on October 1, 2018, reinstated a $3,707,000 verdict in favor of the estate of a man who died from a myocardial infarction (heart attack) that the Baltimote medical malpractice jury had [...]

$1.67M Maryland Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict Against Gastroenterologist

October 3, 2018

A Maryland medical medical practice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $1.67 million on September 26, 2018 in a Maryland medical malpractice wrongful death action, after a six-day trial and three hours of jury deliberations. The Maryland medical malpractice jury awa[...]

$1.1M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misread CT Leading To Unnecessary Surgery

October 5, 2016

On September 23, 2016, a Maryland medical malpractice jury in a conservative Maryland county returned its verdict in the amount of $1.1 million in favor of the plaintiff, who had his CT scan misread by the defendant radiologist, which led to unnecessary surgery that has left the man with severe chro[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Victim Failed To Jump Through All Of The Legal Hoops

December 31, 2013

On December 19, 2013, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”), Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, issued its written opinion in a Maryland medical malpractice appeal where the trial judge had found that the plaintiff’s lawyer had failed to jump thro[...]

Maryland Federal Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict

December 15, 2013

On November 22, 2013, a federal medical malpractice jury in Maryland rendered it verdict in favor of a Maryland neurosurgeon whom the plaintiff alleged had negligently performed spinal surgery on her. The federal medical malpractice lawsuit was filed on November 16, 2011 by the West Virginia plainti[...]

$7M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Pediatrician Malpractice

October 25, 2013

On October 18, 2013, a Maryland medical malpractice jury in a sparsely populated Western Maryland county returned its verdict in the amount of more than $7 million in favor of the family of a newborn infant who allegedly suffered a severe brain injury because the infant’s pediatrician failed[...]

Maryland’s Highest Court Reinstates $2.8M Medical Malpractice Verdict

August 27, 2013

On August 22, 2013, Maryland’s highest appellate court, the Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Court of Appeals”), reinstated a Maryland medical malpractice verdict in the amount of $2,874.398 that the intermediate appellate court (the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland) had vacat[...]

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