34 articles.
When a Maryland business's own worker creates the hazard, like a freshly mopped floor, the business can't escape a fall claim by saying it had no time to warn you. What the new ruling means.
In D.C., a landlord who lets a ceiling, stairwell, or railing stay dangerous cannot defeat your injury claim by saying you should have moved out. Here is what that rule does and does not cover.
A Maryland property owner can't defeat your injury claim just by pointing out that admission was free. A new ruling says courts must look at where you were hurt and what that area is actually for.
Virginia cities and counties are often immune when their negligence hurts you, but not always. A new Supreme Court of Virginia ruling shows what separates a claim that survives from one that is barred.
In Virginia a pre-injury release for negligence is often void outright, and a new Court of Appeals ruling says a general waiver doesn’t cover the specific risk that actually hurt you. How Virginia, Maryland and D.C. differ.
The D.C. Court of Appeals answered the Whiteru certified question: property owners who know someone lies injured must render reasonable aid. The saga ends.
Is DC a strict liability dog bite jurisdiction? Not quite. The at-large rule, the leash law, and how dog attack victims actually recover in Washington.
Lithium-ion battery fires from e-bikes and scooters are injuring riders and neighbors alike. How DC product liability law treats battery fire claims.
The Supreme Court of Virginia held a housing authority acts like any private landowner when maintaining its property: no sovereign immunity.
The D.C. Circuit has certified the Whiteru v. WMATA trespasser question to the D.C. Court of Appeals. What's at stake for injured Metro riders.
Hit by debris, tripped at a torn-up sidewalk, hurt near a DC construction site? How bystander claims work: who owes duties, notice traps, and evidence.
Maryland store-fall cases live or die on notice. The three ways to prove it, created hazard, actual notice, constructive notice, and the evidence for each.
Virginia's open-and-obvious doctrine can end a premises case, but it has real limits. When the defense works, when it fails, and how to build proof.
Injured on Metro? How WMATA claims work: compact immunity, common-carrier duties, and what last year's Whiteru decision changed for passengers.
When a child is hit by a car in DC, special rules apply: the comparative-fault carve-out, the child standard of care, and tolled deadlines explained.
Maryland's highest court holds federal teacher-immunity law doesn't preempt negligence claims and bullying suits aren't barred as "educational malpractice."
When a child is hurt at a Maryland daycare or summer camp, what duty was owed, and is the liability waiver parents signed actually enforceable?
Fell on ice at your Virginia apartment complex? Landlord duties for common areas, the reasonable-time rule, and how contributory negligence shapes claims.
The D.C. Circuit holds a passenger's own negligence is no defense when a common carrier like WMATA fails its duty to aid an injured rider.
DC property owners must clear sidewalk snow within 8 daylight hours. What the law requires, the fines, and when a fall creates civil liability.
The Supreme Court of Virginia held landowners may be liable for letting guests shoot toward an occupied home, limiting recreational-use immunity.
Maryland winter falls are governed by harsh doctrines, but black ice is different. What Poole v. Coakley & Williams means for snow and ice injury claims.
DC law makes lead-based paint hazards illegal in pre-1978 rental housing. What families of lead-exposed children should know about civil claims.
Maryland slip-and-fall cases turn on notice and evidence. How camera footage, sweep logs, and spoliation rules decide retail fall claims.
DC law gives property owners 8 daylight hours to clear sidewalk snow. What the shoveling law does, and doesn't, mean for people injured in icy falls.
Maryland's 2014 dog bite statute ended the pit bull liability wars. What the rebuttable presumption and running-at-large rules mean for bite victims.
Hurt on ice or snow in Virginia? How the storm-in-progress rule works, when property owners must clear walkways, and the proof that wins these cases.
Virginia's "one free bite" rule is widely misunderstood. Learn how negligence, leash-law violations, and negligence per se let dog bite victims recover.
Hurt on someone else's property in Washington DC? Learn how DC's reasonable-care standard works and why it's friendlier than Maryland's or Virginia's rules.
Virginia slip-and-fall cases turn on notice: proving the store knew or should have known about the hazard. Here's how that proof is won and lost.
After a child fell through an uncovered vent into a 25-foot shaft, the DC Court of Appeals formally adopted the rescue doctrine: a landmark for families.
The DC Court of Appeals reinstated a $300,000 jury verdict for a pedestrian who tripped on a sunken utility cut: a major win on notice and jury verdicts.
In RGR, LLC v. Settle, Virginia's Supreme Court affirmed a wrongful death verdict: landowners owe a duty not to create hazards endangering travelers.
In Blackburn Ltd. Partnership v. Paul, Maryland's highest court held that pool-enclosure safety codes can support a negligence claim for a trespassing child.
