Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog

Yesterday, I reported on the Maryland Court of Appeals' opinion this week in Harleysville Mutual Ins. Co. v. Zelinski. In my comment, I wrote that while I regretted the court's opinion because of the impact on the plaintiffs in that case, I agreed that the Court of Appeals came to the right result. It was brought to my attention today that Dave Stratton also reported on and criticized the Maryland Court of Special Appeals' opinion in his blog in a post last summer.

Dave's blog, by the way, is a must read for Maryland personal injury lawyers. Although the blog clearly has a defense slant, he provides invaluable information on his blog for all Maryland lawyers. In fact, Dave's blog was one of my inspirations in starting this blog. Although he is writing primarily for defense lawyers in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia, Dave did not drink the "defense lawyer Kool-Aid" to the point where he just reads off the defense lawyer "party platform" without consideration of what justice should dictate. I have tried to follow his model in this blog. Although I clearly have a bent towards plaintiffs and injury victims' rights, I do not assume the injured plaintiffs are always right and the insurance companies are always wrong or that the law should be unduly slanted in favor of injury victims. I believe every case should be considered on its own merits and hope that the party that should prevail does prevail.