The Injury Litigation Blog

The Maryland Judiciary’s Budget Request and Last Month’s Stats

By Byron Warnken

The Maryland Judiciary has requested $549 million dollars for their 2016 operating budget. According to the Daily Record, this is approximately a 10% increase over the current fiscal year. On first blush, this might seem like a large number. However, consider, for a moment, last month’s figures that we now report.

There were 5410 cases filed. This is just new filings. And just circuit court. Including district court, there are many times this number of cases. Just for one month.

Practicing lawyers in Maryland know that the administration of justice could always be smoother. Well spent, money could help solve the problem. I don’t know how the money is intending to be spent (read the Daily Record article), but I do know that more resources are necessary.

At InjuryLawyerDatabase.com, we report, specifically, on personal injury cases and personal injury statistics. To that end, of the 5410 cases, there were:

• 26 medical malpractice cases filed
• 260 car accident cases filed
• 216 workers’ compensation cases filed

Important to note: the three bullets above do not include the breakdowns for Prince George’s County and Montgomery County. Personal injury cases for those two counties are included in the 5410, but are not specifically broken out as those counties report in a more generic way.

No medical malpractice lawyer filed more than one of the 26 medical malpractice cases we report. However, multiple med mal firms filed more than one case. This includes Dugan Babij, Salsbury Clements, and Schochor, Federico & Staton. In short, the usual suspects.

Lawyers filing more than two of the 260 car accident cases we report include Stuart Arnovits, Paul Bekman, Harold Dwin, John N. Fox, Isaac Klein, Thomas Mcelroy, Frank Muher, Ernest Nichols, Deborah Potter, John Stolarz, Damon Trazzi, and Brennan Walter. Again, it’s important to remember the 260 cases do not include PG or Montgomery County and are circuit court only. There are also numerous car accident cases filed in Maryland’s district courts. District court has a lower damages threshold than circuit court.

In workers’ comp land, of the 216 cases, selected attorneys filing more than one case include Ken Berman, Ben Boscolo, Bill Butler, Gretchen Rogers, Aaron Schwartz, and Rebecca Smith.

Unfortunately for Maryland and our economy, foreclosure cases remain the most commonly filed matters in Maryland circuit courts.

January Baltimore Area Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Statistics

By Byron Warnken

In total, there were only 19 medical malpractice lawsuits filed in the greater Baltimore area in January.  This includes Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Carroll County, Howard County, Harford County, and Anne Arundel County.  (Note: this means suits labeled medical malpractice; if the suits were mislabeled, they would not be listed here.) Only 19 Lawsuits Of […]

Peter Angelos Still Works Cases?

By Byron Warnken

InjuryLawyerDatabase.com went from algorithmic updates to hand updates within the last few months.  A smattering of the updates come across my desk.  Actually, they do the modern day equivalent and pipe through my inbox.  I’m seldom surprised by what I see.  If I thought a lawyer was busy and handling a lot of car accident […]

November Maryland Circuit Court Statistics

By Byron Warnken

Medical malpractice lawsuits, or the lack thereof, is what stood out in November.  There were only 21 different medical malpractice lawsuits filed in Maryland in November. The number seems smaller than one might otherwise guess. Well known defendants include Frederick Memorial Hospital, Northwest Hospital Center, Emergency Medicine Associates, PA, Franklin Square Hospital, Peninsula Regional Medical […]

St. Agnes Hospital and Medical Malpractice – A Rough Month

By Byron Warnken

Medical Negligence Verdicts Stack Up in November A number of medical malpractice cases in and around Baltimore have made news in recent weeks, more than one involving St. Agnes Hosptial. It might be time to start sweating Briggs Bedigian. If you don’t know who he is, you don’t really know medical malpractice lawyers in Baltimore. […]

The Levy Case Lawyers Likely to Get More than $65 million

By Byron Warnken

The Background As the Levy case draws to a close, this post talks a little about the lawyers involved in the Nikita Levy case.  In the event you are from Baltimore but live under a rock underneath the harbor tunnel, or if maybe you are not from Baltimore, the “Levy Case” is about former Johns […]

More Medical Malpractice Studies

By Byron Warnken

The public perception, mostly fueled by the American Medical Industrial Complex, is that medical malpractice suits are unjustified and out of control. As statistics and facts become more available all the time, perhaps this is changing to some degree. The truth is the exact opposite. It’s difficult for victims of medical negligence to get just […]

Med Mal Lawyers Shouldn’t Have to Do All the Heavy Lifting

By Byron Warnken

CMS Stops, then Starts Again Last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which offers health insurance to 100 million people, quietly announced it was going to stop tracking and publicly reporting 8 medicals errors detrimental to patient’s wellbeing. These 8 included when foreign objects are left in patient’s bodies after surgery and […]

University of Maryland Medical System Birth Injury Case

By Byron Warnken

The Case The family of a Baltimore girl was awarded $3 million by a Baltimore City jury after she suffered permanent and catastrophic injury to her left arm and shoulder as the result of medical negligence during her birth. Her family should receive the highest possible amount of noneconomic damages under Maryland law and just over […]

21 Maryland Medical Malpractice Cases in One Month

By Byron Warnken

In June of 2014, there were only 21 Medical Malpractice lawsuits filed in Maryland Circuit Courts.  Of those 21 cases, only 3 med mal firms filed more than a single case. Salsbury, Clements, Bekman, Marder & Adkins, L.L.C. filed three cases, Schochor, Frederico and Staton P.A. filed two, and Snyder and Snyder filed two. Other […]