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Talbot County is a county on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. One of the smallest and least populated counties in the state, it has few significant towns or cities, but numerous opportunities for exploring and enjoying the outdoors, especially along the county’s coastal areas on the Chesapeake Bay.
However, just because Talbot County is a rural and quiet place does not mean that people do not get hurt in accidents every day. Events like car accidents, medical malpractice or slip and fall injuries can happen anywhere in the world, and Talbot County is no exception. To make these situations worse, they are often caused by someone else’s negligence, leaving you very little opportunity to avoid getting hurt.
If you ever get hurt in one of these kinds of accidents in Talbot County, you should pursue your legal rights to compensation by hiring a personal injury attorney and filing a lawsuit. These formal requests for compensation can make a huge difference in your future well-being because, if successful, they can mean the person or the people who were actually responsible for your injuries will pay for the cost of your recovery.
Talbot County
Talbot County is a county in Maryland on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. Like much of the rest of the state’s Eastern Shore, it is a quiet, rural, rustic, and historic area that has a lot of untouched or lightly-populated coastline along the Bay. With only 269 square miles of land inside its borders, Talbot County is the third-smallest county in Maryland. Additionally, with only 37,782 residents calling Talbot County home during the 2010 census, it had a low population density of only 141 people per square mile. Nearly half of those people live in the county seat of Easton, which had 15,945 people during the 2010 census, making the rest of the county that much less populated.
Some areas of Talbot County, however, have seen a slight increase in population from the growth of Washington, D.C. While the District of Columbia is on the opposite side of the Chesapeake Bay, since the creation of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in 1952, and its widening in 1973, commuters have trickled into the Eastern Shore, with some of them settling in Talbot County, using Route 50 to get to work and back in just over an hour.
Personal Injury in Talbot County
Accidents happen anywhere, and when they do, innocent people can get hurt. This is frustrating if you or someone you love was the one who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Not only was there very little that could be done to prevent the accident from happening but now you have a long and often expensive road to recovery to manage. The cost of medical attention in the U.S. is among the highest in the world, and this can put a significant strain on your financial well-being for years after the event that led to your injuries.
Whether the accident that hurt you happened in a car crash on Route 50, in the hospital at the University of Maryland Shore Medical Center in Easton or while visiting shops and businesses in Easton, filing a personal injury claim can make a huge difference in your future.
Route 50
While there are no major interstate highways that pass through Talbot County, Route 50 is still a major thoroughfare that carries thousands of people through the area at high rates of speed. Unfortunately, with so much traffic moving so quickly, serious car accidents happen all the time, leaving innocent people severely hurt because of something that another driver did.
In Maryland, everyone is supposed to drive in a way that is reasonably safe for the road conditions. However, it seems that very few drivers take this legal responsibility very seriously. Instead, they drive while distracted or even drunk, and weave in and out of traffic while speeding, simply to cut a few seconds off their arrival time. This puts other drivers into harm’s way and makes serious injuries a completely foreseeable result.
University of Maryland Shore Medical Center in Easton
One of the worst times that you can get hurt because of someone else’s negligence is when your health is already compromised. When you visit the doctor’s office for a routine checkup or go to the University of Maryland Shore Medical Center in Easton for a more intensive procedure like a surgery, you are putting yourself in the hands of medical professionals who have the ability to make you much healthier than you were, before. However, these healthcare providers are humans, too, and can make mistakes, as well. Unfortunately, when these mistakes are made while you are on the operating table or being examined, it can amount to medical malpractice that can change your life.
A medical malpractice claim, however, can help you get the compensation that you need and deserve after a doctor or surgeon makes a mistake. These professionals, as well as nurses, anesthesiologists or any other medical provider, has a legal duty to provide adequate medical care. If they fail to uphold this legal duty, they could be held liable for their shortcomings.
Premises Liability in Easton
While it only has around 16,000 people, the city of Easton is a bustling metropolis when compared to the rest of Talbot County. It has also grown in size and attracted numerous businesses to the area, which have opened and brought a surprising amount of tourists to the once-quiet town, looking to enjoy what the area has to offer, especially in the way of restaurants.
However, people who visit these establishments can trip and fall and get hurt, especially if there are dangerous conditions on the property that are unlikely to be seen. This is why Maryland’s personal injury law puts premises liability on landowners for injuries that their negligence or lack of responsibility have caused. These landowners are legally required to take reasonable steps to ensure their visitors remain safe while on their property. This often requires them to fix dangerous or hazardous conditions, like broken stairs or slippery floors, in order to prevent a slip and fall accident from happening.
Talbot County Courthouse
If you or someone you love has been hurt in an accident in Talbot County and you decide to enforce your legal rights to compensation by filing a personal injury lawsuit, your claim will likely be heard in either the Talbot County District Courthouse, if your claim is for a small amount of money, or in Talbot County Circuit Courthouse, if your claim is larger or if you want a jury trial. Both of these courts are located in the county seat of Talbot County, Easton. The District Court is located at 108 West Dover Street in Easton, while the Circuit Court is nearby, at 11 North Washington Street. Parking for the District Court is in a metered lot next to the building, while metered parking for the Circuit Court can be found on Washington Street and on streets surrounding the courthouse.
However, personal injury claims need to be filed soon after the event happened that hurt you, or else the statute of limitations will prevent the claim from being heard in court. The reason for this is to push people into filing a lawsuit soon after the incident, before evidence gets lost and people forget what happened, and to give the person who may be liable the ability to rest assured that they will not be sued once the statute of limitations takes effect. In Maryland, the statute of limitations for most kinds of personal injury claims is three years, so any lawsuit filed after these three years have passed will be quickly dismissed by the court, no matter how good of a case it might be.
Gilman & Bedigian Serve Accident Victims in Talbot County
If you or someone you love gets hurt in an accident because someone else was being negligent, it can be frustrating and even angering to have to pay for the costs of your own recovery. These costs can be expensive and are compounded by the pain and suffering that you go through while trying to get better. Worse, some accidents lead to permanently debilitating injuries that do not go away.
At the very least, the person or the people who are ultimately responsible for your injuries should have to pay their fair share for your recovery. After all, were it not for their negligence or recklessness, you would be living your life like you normally would.
This is where the personal injury attorneys at the law office of Gilman & Bedigian can help. By providing you legal representation both in and out of court, we can ensure that you get the compensation that you need and deserve from the parties that should be paying it. If successful, a personal injury lawsuit can make a huge difference in your future financial well-being and can mean you are not paying out of your own pocket for the costs of your recovery. Contact us online or call our law office at (800) 529-6162 for a free consultation.