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Attorney’s fees often finish last, although we have a hard time understanding why. Defendants don’t want to agree to pay them, and courts don’t like to award them. When courts do award fees, they are often pared back. Recently, the Appellate Court of Maryland ruled that a person convicted of a crime and ordered to ...
Judges may not order convicted thieves to pay restitution for the attorney’s fees their victims paid to get their property back, a Maryland court ruled.
Maryland Appellate Court Medical Malpractice; certificate of qualified expert: Where the Healthcare Malpractice Claims Act, or HCMCA, allows a plaintiff to submit a certificate of qualified expert from a person who is not board certified in the defendant’s specialty if the expert “taught medicine in the defendant’s specialty or a related field of health care,” ...