The D.C. Court of Appeals answered the Whiteru certified question: property owners who know someone lies injured must render reasonable aid. The saga ends.

Is DC a strict liability dog bite jurisdiction? Not quite. The at-large rule, the leash law, and how dog attack victims actually recover in Washington.

Lithium-ion battery fires from e-bikes and scooters are injuring riders and neighbors alike. How DC product liability law treats battery fire claims.

The Supreme Court of Virginia held a housing authority acts like any private landowner when maintaining its property — no sovereign immunity.

The D.C. Circuit has certified the Whiteru v. WMATA trespasser question to the D.C. Court of Appeals. What's at stake for injured Metro riders.

Hit by debris, tripped at a torn-up sidewalk, hurt near a DC construction site? How bystander claims work: who owes duties, notice traps, and evidence.

Maryland store-fall cases live or die on notice. The three ways to prove it — created hazard, actual notice, constructive notice — and the evidence for each.

Virginia's open-and-obvious doctrine can end a premises case — but it has real limits. When the defense works, when it fails, and how to build proof.

Injured on Metro? How WMATA claims work — compact immunity, common-carrier duties, and what last year's Whiteru decision changed for passengers.

When a child is hit by a car in DC, special rules apply — the comparative-fault carve-out, the child standard of care, and tolled deadlines explained.

Maryland's highest court holds federal teacher-immunity law doesn't preempt negligence claims and bullying suits aren't barred as "educational malpractice."

When a child is hurt at a Maryland daycare or summer camp, what duty was owed — and is the liability waiver parents signed actually enforceable?

Fell on ice at your Virginia apartment complex? Landlord duties for common areas, the reasonable-time rule, and how contributory negligence shapes claims.

The D.C. Circuit holds a passenger's own negligence is no defense when a common carrier like WMATA fails its duty to aid an injured rider.

DC property owners must clear sidewalk snow within 8 daylight hours. What the law requires, the fines, and when a fall creates civil liability.

The Supreme Court of Virginia held landowners may be liable for letting guests shoot toward an occupied home, limiting recreational-use immunity.

Maryland winter falls are governed by harsh doctrines — but black ice is different. What Poole v. Coakley & Williams means for snow and ice injury claims.

DC law makes lead-based paint hazards illegal in pre-1978 rental housing. What families of lead-exposed children should know about civil claims.

Maryland slip-and-fall cases turn on notice and evidence. How camera footage, sweep logs, and spoliation rules decide retail fall claims.

DC law gives property owners 8 daylight hours to clear sidewalk snow. What the shoveling law does — and doesn't — mean for people injured in icy falls.