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Wood Law Offices, LLC
Experienced, Trial Tested and Proven
Prior Cases
In 2003, Mr. Wood won a verdict in the U.S. District Court for the District
of Maryland, Southern Division, for over $7 Million for a severely
disfigured young man injured in a motor vehicle crash by a grossly negligent
and intoxicated driver. He also won the tenth highest settlement at the time against the U.S. Navy
for wrongful death due to medical malpractice for a female tennis champion.
Mr. Wood has also represented many other victims of tortious conduct
including:
- A male, while undergoing a routine laparoscopic gallbladder removal,
sustained a transection of the common hepatic and common bile duct which was
not recognized resulting in bile spilled into the abdominal cavity for days
after surgery. This required major subsequent corrective surgery and left
the client with serious medical complications.
- The estate and children of a woman and mother who was struck and killed
during a police chase by the motorist being chased.
- Two male passengers who were severely injured when the car they were
riding in hit a concrete counter-weight left hanging over a curb into the
traveled portion of a public highway resulting in severe and permanent
disabilities.
- A passenger in a car who sustained very severe injuries due to the fault
of another whose insurance company gave him a $10,000 check in exchange for
a general release from all liability when there were more than $90,000 in
medical bills. The Court declared the settlement void after a 3 day trial
and the case was settled for compensatory damages and additional damages for
imposition to defraud.
- An autistic adult struck by an automobile while lawfully crossing a public
street with his caretaker.
- A young nurse and her mother who was driving her mother home from
chemotherapy treatment for terminal cancer and was hit head-on by a
distracted driver causing both serious injuries and the mother to be unable
to walk for the remaining few months of her life.
- An elderly male who suffered from adult onset diabetes who lost one leg
due to the disease and the other recently due to not being periodically
turned while immobilized in an improperly equipped hospital bed.
- The estate and family of a mother who was killed in a car crash when she
was ejected through a split in the car's roof seam.
- A male who died as a result of the erroneous suturing of an artery during
open heart surgery, thereby preventing blood flow from the heart.
- A male who had a phrenic nerve burned during open heart surgery, causing
one lung to collapse, requiring the long term use of supplemented oxygen.
- A male who died as the result of a failure to diagnose prostate cancer.
- A female who had 40% of the bone in her great toe surgically removed by a
Podiatrist during a routine bunionectomy resulting in a serious and
permanent impairment including a limp and the need to use a walking cane for
life.
- The estate and widow of a construction worker who was directed to cut the
cables in a post and tension constructed multi-deck parking garage as member
of a demolition crew when the building collapsed burying him in the debris
and causing his tragic death.
- A female who underwent routine heart bypass surgery and had her saphenous
vein harvested by an unlicensed surgeon resulting in interruption of her
lymphatic system and uncontrollable and chronic leg swelling.
- A motorcyclist who was riding and was caught in the neck below his helmet
by a utility wire hanging five feet off the surface of the traveled surface
of a public street.
- A passenger in a truck on the way to work who was struck by an oncoming
car in the wrong lane and on his side of the road resulting in catastrophic
injuries.
- A male bus passenger with pre-existing lumbar spine surgeries who was
thrown to the floor when his bus was hit by another vehicle causing him to
undergo a subsequent lumbar spinal fusion and resulting in serious and
permanent disability.
- A young man who was shot by a random shooter while in a grocery store
buying milk for his family.
- An elderly woman nearing retirement who loved her work as a crossing guard
who was struck from behind by a driver coming around a corner as she was
crossing small children on the way to school.
- A female who, while undergoing a sterilization procedure, sustained a
major laceration and a puncture, both of the small bowel, resulting in
substantial and permanent damage.
- A female who, while undergoing removal of an ovarian cyst, sustained a
through-and through-puncture of the vena cava (a major heart vessel) and an
improper surgical approach to stop the resultant bleeding resulting in
serious permanent damages.
- A destitute and uninsured male who was abandoned in a hospital by a
surgeon who had scheduled him for emergency vascular surgery to repair a
ruptured artery causing permanent nerve damage resulting from a subsequent
delay in treatment.
- A female who suffered serious orthopedic injury during routine knee
replacement surgery.
- A female who, while hospitalized, developed serious bed sores caused by
pressure on the body while lying in a hospital bed causing her to undergo
several major surgeries to stop the necrosis.
- Two adult children who were refused an accounting of 17 irrevocable family
trusts by the trustee and lost title to real property due to self dealing by
the trustee.
- A robust 72 year old adult male who developed a post surgical infection
following the implantation of a shunt to relieve cranial pressure causing
his death.
These cases, and many others, have or may in the near future for
those still in litigation result in substantial verdicts or settlements for
these individuals and their families whose lives have been completely
altered due to these tragic occurrences.
Mr. Wood has also served as trial and appellate counsel in numerous
criminal cases including Reed v State of Maryland, 35 Md. App. 472, cert.
granted 280 Md. 734, reversed 283 Md. 374 which resulted in the reversal of
a conviction and a new trial in one of the leading cases in the United
States on the admissibility of new scientific evidence (spectrographic
analysis a/k/a voice prints) which essentially declared this voice
recognition technique unreliable in the scientific community and
inadmissible as trial evidence.
In addition, he served as appellate counsel in Figgins vs. Cochrane
174 Md. App. 1, affirmed 403 Md. 392 (2008) which is a leading case
involving the state of mind exception to the hearsay rule and the power of
an attorney-in-fact to gift real property.
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