by Dave Gormley | Posted in Legal-ease Blog | Reading Time: < 1 minute
To help ease some of the holiday traffic we are staying off the roads and working from home on Friday February 16th. While we won’t be in the office, we are set up to fully serve our clients by phone or zoom. Have some documents to drop off? Just leave them in our secure drop...
by Tucker Clagett | Posted in Personal Injury | Reading Time: 3 minutes
Contributory negligence has been the law in Maryland for a long, long time. Our high court has decided twice in the past 50 years to leave it as is. The first time was in 1983. The latest attempt to overturn the doctrine of contributory negligence was in 2013 in the case of Coleman v Soccer...
by Tucker Clagett | Posted in Personal Injury | Reading Time: 7 minutes
This post is for my clients. I usually ask clients to read this when we are ready to make a demand in their personal injury case. It is a good general overview of what is going to happen now, and what your options are going to be later. You and I either have or will...
by Tucker Clagett | Posted in Personal Injury | Reading Time: 7 minutes
This is a post I did for my clients, so they know the road ahead. If your Waldorf, Maryland personal injury case has not settled, and we have been forced to file suit, your case is in litigation. This post is designed to provide a road map of what to expect as your legal case...
by Tucker Clagett | Posted in Personal Injury | Reading Time: 6 minutes
When the snow starts falling and the sidewalks get icy, we will get the inevitable calls from Maryland residents who suffer a personal injury because they fell on snow or ice. Usually this occurs in a poorly maintained parking lot, or a walkway to a business. Unfortunately, Maryland personal injury law is largely (but not...
by Tucker Clagett | Posted in Legal-ease Blog | Reading Time: < 1 minute
Our friends at Alcock & Associates in Phoenix came up with a great infographic to explain what you should do if you are injured in an auto accident. Give it a look and share it with anyone you know who has been injured in a motor vehicle accident. This is good advice and applies to...
by Tucker Clagett | Posted in Civil Law & Consumer | Reading Time: 4 minutes
It’s daylight savings time again – when you are supposed to replace the batteries in your smoke detectors. This year, you should consider replacing more than batteries. You probably have the wrong type of smoke detector in your house! When we bought our house it came with the original issue smoke detectors. That January there was...
by Tucker Clagett | Posted in Personal Injury | Reading Time: 6 minutes
In a personal injury case, a lien is a legal claim made by a third party—often your health insurance company—seeking reimbursement for medical expenses they covered due to your accident. This means that a portion of your settlement may legally need to be paid back to the insurer. Even though it feels unfair, the law...
by Kathryn Lawryszek | Posted in Family Law | Reading Time: 4 minutes
Maryland divorce laws are getting a major overhaul this year, effective October 1, 2023. These changes are designed to bring Maryland into the modern age and make getting a divorce less time consuming and expensive. It is also supposed to dramatically cut down the fighting between divorcing couples. While that last goal remains to be...
by Tucker Clagett | Posted in Civil Law & Consumer | Reading Time: 4 minutes
The Maryland legislature was unusually busy this past session, and they passed a lot of new Maryland laws. Some took effect in July (like the marijuana legislation) but most take effect October 1, 2023. While hundreds of laws are passed each year, we have tried to focus on the laws most likely to affect you...
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