ANNAPOLIS — Representatives from about 25 businesses and municipalities pressed a House committee Wednesday to approve legislation to codify Maryland‘s common-law ban on plaintiffs in personal injury ...

If you’ve been injured due to someone else’s negligence, you may be eligible to file a personal injury claim. However, before you do this, it’s important to familiarize yourself with some of this ...

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"Defendants acknowledged at oral argument that the record does not tell us whether the alleged hand-soaking occurred before or after the sutures were removed. But if Butts-Franklin had soaked her hand ...

Maryland is one of but five United States jurisdictions that adhere to the ancient rule that contributory negligence is an absolute bar to a tort recovery for negligence. The rule has had several ...

Insurance consumers in states that have adopted comparative negligence pay more for automobile liability insurance than do consumers in states that retain contributory negligence. Through the use of a ...

Gerardo Gutierrez, a 70-year old deli-worker employed by Publix grocery stores, died on April 28, 2020, from COVID-19. Sadly, Gerry, as his friends called him, died in a hospital – alone, with his ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- A Greensboro mother has started a petition on Change.org to fight the Contributory Negligence Law in North Carolina. Mignon Elkes' 23-year-old daughter pictured above was struck ...

Kochi: Contributory negligence cannot be attributed to a pillion rider who is not wearing a helmet at the time of a traffic accident, the high court has held. The ruling by Justice PV Kunhikrishnan ...

Under Florida law, negligence is the failure to use reasonable care. Negligence is the failure to use the care that a reasonable person would use under the same or similar circumstances or the doing ...

Tort law is popularly associated with films like Silkwood, A Civil Action, The Insider, and Erin Brockovich, in which courageous, beleaguered plaintiffs’ lawyers battle the malevolent forces of “big ...