Distracted driving is dangerous for many reasons. It significantly impacts your ability to drive. Cell phone use – both talking and texting – remain the most obvious example of distracted driving, but there are many more. Anything that grabs your attention while you are trying to drive can affect …
Hospital Infections Are Often Caused by Medical Negligence
If you developed an infection while in the hospital, it may have been the result of medical negligence. Hospital-acquired infections can create setbacks in your recovery, cause permanent injuries, and are often fatal. If your infection was caused by medical negligence, you may be able to recover …
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When Slip and Fall is Due to Negligence
If you have been seriously injured in a slip and fall accident on someone else’s property, it may be due to negligence and you may be able to recover compensation for your medical expenses, lost income and your pain and suffering. Property and business owners have a duty to maintain a safe …
Common Law Marriage and Wrongful Death Claims in Maryland
When your spouse dies as a result of someone else’s negligence or wrongdoing, you have the right to pursue wrongful death compensation. Maryland specifies who can be the beneficiary in a wrongful death claim. The spouse children and parents are at the top of the list. If none of those exist, anyone …
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Can I Receive Compensation for Maryland Hit-and-Run Injuries?
If you were injured by a hit-and-run driver, you may think that you have no way to get paid for your injuries. How do you hold someone liable if you can’t find them? In Maryland, if you have liability insurance, as required by law, then you also have uninsured motorist coverage, which means you can …
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Social Media and Your Car Accident Case
If you have been hurt in a car accident, your first instinct might be to post about it on Facebook or other social media. Don’t do it. Just don’t. It doesn’t matter how great you think the post will be for your case, how much you’re obviously suffering, how wrong the other guy was. It can …
What to Do After a Car Accident
After a car accident, the most important thing is to take care of your safety and your health. Second to that, you need to take the right actions, and avoid the wrong ones, in order to preserve your insurance claim and your legal rights. If you are seriously injured, you will need maximum …
3 Myths About Truck Driver Fatigue
If you have been injured in a trucking accident, truck driver fatigue may have played a role. The trucking industry would like you to believe that fatigue is not a major problem for truck drivers, that drivers who follow the rules are not fatigued, that drivers who break the rules are rogue drivers …
How Will a Free Consultation Help Me?
Many injury attorneys offer a free initial consultation, and you may be wondering what really happens during this free meeting and whether it is really worth your time or just a meet-and-greet and maybe a sales pitch. Your free consultation with Patrick D. Troxler is an in-depth meeting where we …
Get a Police Report After Your Car Accident
Getting a police report following a car accident is one of the most important things you can do, especially if you’re considering pursuing a personal injury claim for your injuries and any losses caused by that accident. According to the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA), there are over …
