DC and Maryland Accident Attorney News Blog

The 2020 holiday season is unlike any we’ve ever experienced. COVID-19 rates continue to rise, with increasing positive cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. Currently, the United States is rapidly hurtling toward 300,000 deaths from COVID-19. That staggering number might lead you to believe that holiday travel would grind to a halt …

We all know car accidents happen every day. But in the Baltimore-Washington area, fatal car crashes seem to be occurring at a more alarming rate recently. For example, in October alone, there were three fatal car accidents on the Baltimore/Washington Parkway. While investigators are still determining the cause of these …

COVID-19 has seriously hampered the travel and hotel industry since early 2020. Because of restrictions and people’s hesitancy to venture too far away from home, airlines and the hospitality business are genuinely struggling to stay afloat. Prior to COVID, however, Washington, DC had the honor of being named the top …

For decades, organizations such as M.A.D.D. (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) and S.A.D.D. (Students Against Drunk Driving) have successfully raised awareness of the dangers of driving while drunk. Drunk driving continues to be a significant problem and a factor in so many accident-related deaths. In fact, based on numbers from 2016, …

In April of 2019, Maryland National Guard Staff Sgt. Dinora Aracely Flores of Damascus, MD, was stopped in a left-turn lane, waiting to make a left turn. Suddenly, a flatbed truck hit her vehicle from behind, pushing her into oncoming traffic, where a tractor-trailer struck her. Staff Sgt. Flores died …

You’ve probably seen, heard, and read quite a bit about the incident involving Karon Hylton-Brown’s fatal moped crash that happened in the Washington, DC neighborhood of Brightwood Park on October 23, 2020. In case you’re not familiar, reports say Karon Hylton-Brown, a 20-year-old Black man, was riding his electric moped …

A baby’s birth is supposed to be one of the happiest and most memorable days a parent can experience. But what happens if your baby’s birthday is memorable for more than one reason? Such as a birth injury to your newborn child as the result of improper care from a …

While hematomas and bruises look similar, the difference between a hematoma and a bruise is that a hematoma occurs due to damage of large blood vessels; bruises result from small blood vessel damage. Like bruises, most hematomas are generally harmless…but hematomas can be quite dangerous depending on where in or …

Fatal car accidents can occur at any time, especially in urban areas with high-density traffic moving at high speeds. As of September 11, 2020, twenty-seven people were killed in traffic accidents in the DC metropolitan area. If your loved one has been killed in a car accident, you are likely …

Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are literal life-changers, and the impact they have on not only the victims, but their family and friends, cannot possibly be overstated. Anyone can be walking across the street, driving to the grocery store, or taking a leisurely bike ride one minute–the next thing they know, …