Maryland assisted living facilities face far lighter regulation than nursing homes. What COMAR 10.07.14 requires — and what it doesn't — when neglect causes injury.

Who is allowed to file, what damages Maryland permits, and how long families have to act after losing a loved one to someone else’s negligence. A plain-English guide for Maryland families.

The adjuster who calls after your accident may sound sympathetic, but their job is to pay you as little as possible. What to say, what to avoid, and when to stop talking.

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

Feeling fine after a crash doesn’t mean you are, and a gap in treatment is the first thing an insurer will use against you. Why prompt medical care protects your health and your claim.

Virginia is one of a handful of places where being even slightly at fault can bar your recovery entirely. What contributory negligence means for your claim, and how insurers try to use it against you.

What you do in the minutes and days after a D.C.-area car accident can make or break your claim. A step-by-step guide from our trial lawyers.

Maryland's Supreme Court held 4-3 that the Child Victims Act's revival of time-barred abuse claims is constitutional. What the ruling means for survivors.

Virginia's Supreme Court reinstated a $7M brain-injury verdict, holding circumstantial evidence of causation need not rule out every other possibility.

The Supreme Court of Virginia affirmed a $2M wrongful death verdict, holding the Dead Man's Statute did not silence the patient's own account of his fall.

Baltimore renewed its dockless scooter program in 2024 with Spin and Lime. Who pays when a rider is hurt — the company, a driver, or the city?

Federal research estimates 1 in 18 ER patients is misdiagnosed. How DC law handles emergency-room diagnostic-error claims, and the 90-day notice trap.

When a Virginia school bus crash injures a child, sovereign immunity is waived up to the school board's insurance. How these claims actually work.

Maryland's 2024 wrongful death numbers: the $935,000 cap, the 150% multiplier for families, the lower med-mal cap, and why the date of injury controls.

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

The DC Court of Appeals reversed dismissal of a med-mal case the plaintiff forgot to list in bankruptcy — and gave lawyers the playbook to save such claims.

DC traffic deaths hit a 16-year high in 2023, the year before Vision Zero's target date. What civil accountability looks like for victims' families.

Most cars record crash data. What Virginia's EDR privacy statute and federal rule 49 CFR Part 563 mean for proving your crash case.

The Dali's owners have invoked an 1851 law to cap all Key Bridge claims at about $43.7 million. What the Limitation of Liability Act means for the families.

Maryland's e-bike classes, age and helmet rules, and what happens legally when a child is hurt riding — or hit by — an electric bike.