by Marcus Boston | Apr 15, 2015 | Blog, How Lawsuits Work
You think that you have been injured because of something that your doctor or hospital did to you. Because of this, you want to sue them for medical malpractice. You know that you are a smart person and you are highly educated. As a result, you think that representing...
by Marcus Boston | Apr 6, 2015 | Blog, How Lawsuits Work
Why is causation important in a Maryland medical malpractice case? To be able to understand the answer to this question one has to know the four essential elements of a Maryland injury case. Those elements are duty, breach of duty, causation, and damages. If at least...
by Marcus Boston | Apr 6, 2015 | Blog, How Lawsuits Work
You go to the mailbox and there you see it. A notice for the clerk of court in your county explaining that you have been summoned for jury duty. What can you expect and better yet, how were you chosen? The simple answer as to how you were chosen is that each county,...
by Marcus Boston | Apr 2, 2015 | Blog, How Lawsuits Work
We recently posted an educational article and video about why a Maryland lawyer cannot make guarantees as to the results of a case. Taking that issue a little bit further, what about expectations as to the result? Can a Maryland lawyer advise a client as to totally...
by Marcus Boston | Mar 28, 2015 | Blog, How Lawsuits Work
You have suffered a medical injury and you think that the cause is medical malpractice! With that said, you have now started to use the internet to find the best Maryland medical malpractice lawyer for your case and situation. You quickly realize that that Google has...
by Marcus Boston | Mar 26, 2015 | Blog, How Lawsuits Work
Your medical malpractice case is looking to now settle. With that said you now have some questions about how does a lawyer keep my money separate in a Maryland injury case? If you are thinking about this question you are not alone. To be able to understand how this is...
by Marcus Boston | Mar 24, 2015 | Blog, How Lawsuits Work
You have more than likely seen the commercials or the news articles reporting how Mr. X received a jury verdict of $500 thousand dollars in his heart attack misdiagnosis. Or how a woman settled her breast cancer misdiagnosis case for hundreds of thousands of dollars....
by Marcus Boston | Mar 16, 2015 | Blog, How Lawsuits Work
You are suffering from chest pains and a pain in your left arm. You make the appointment to see your doctor. Your doctor begins to question you about your chest pains and asks whether you have pain anywhere else. For some reason you fail to speak up and tell the...
by Marcus Boston | Mar 9, 2015 | Blog, How Lawsuits Work
Gaps in your medical treatment can be problematic if you are trying to make an injury case. Can you hear it now, “How hurt is Mr. X if he was missing all these appointments?” To take it a step further, in a medical malpractice case, the person suing the doctor is...
by Marcus Boston | Mar 8, 2015 | Blog, How Lawsuits Work
Maryland is one of the few states in the United States that still follows a very strict law as to a person contributing to their own medical injury. This legal concept is called contributory negligence. What this means is that if a person is even 1% responsible for...