Month: November 2011
A 59-year-old Salisbury doctor was sentenced recently by a federal court to eight years in prison. The doctor was found guilty of medical malpractice for implanting unnecessary stents in patients and reaping the financial benefit from insurers. Failure to diagnose can be one of many reasons a medical professional is tried for medical malpractice in court. In the […]
A Maryland special appeals court denied workers’ compensation medical benefits to a hotel employee shot by the friend of a co-worker. Although the shooting resulted from an argument the claimant had at work, the court ruled that the injuries were disconnected from the workplace. The worker, who was employed as a houseman at a hotel, […]
The accident reconstruction team for the Baltimore Police Department will help determine whether speeding or other traffic violations contributed to a fatal car accident. Two college students died in the Fells Point crash on a recent weeknight. Police report the accident took place on a Thursday at about 10:30 p.m., at the intersection of Broadway and […]