ANNAPOLIS — Representatives from about 25 businesses and municipalities pressed a House committee Wednesday to approve legislation to codify Maryland‘s common-law ban on plaintiffs in personal injury ...

If you’ve been injured due to someone else’s negligence, you may be eligible to file a personal injury claim. However, before you do this, it’s important to familiarize yourself with some of this ...

Maryland’s top court cannot switch, by rule, the standard for plaintiffs’ recovery in personal injury cases where they were partially at fault, according to a draft report released Thursday by its ...

North Carolina adheres to the common law doctrine of contributory negligence. The rule, which has been jettisoned by 46 states in favor of some form of comparative fault, bars recovery by a negligent ...

For all intents and purposes, Pennsylvania has abandoned the doctrine of contributory negligence in favor of comparative negligence. That is, the allocation of a plaintiff's own contribution to a ...

Dr. W was devastated to hear of her patient’s death, and felt guilty, in hindsight, for not considering diabetes since she was aware that the young man had a family history of the disease. She was too ...

Maryland's highest court on Tuesday upheld a law that says people cannot recover damages from an injury in a negligence case if they are found to be partly at fault. In a 5-2 ruling, the Court of ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- A Greensboro mother has started a petition on Change.org to fight the Contributory Negligence Law in North Carolina. Mignon Elkes' 23-year-old daughter pictured above was struck ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- A Greensboro mother has started a petition on Change.org to fight the Contributory Negligence Law in North Carolina. Mignon Elkes' 23-year-old daughter pictured above was struck ...