There are several types of DUI hearings. Your initial bail hearing usually occurs within 24 hours of your arrest and establishes pretrial conditions. The next hearing is a bail review hearing to determine whether you will be released pending trial. Later, you’ll have a Motor Vehicle Administration hearing to decide how your case may impact […]
Losing your driver’s license depends on your circumstances and previous DUI/DWIs, but it’s likely to be temporarily revoked. A first-time DUI offender in Maryland usually receives 12 points on their license and six months of license revocation. A second-time offender faces a full year of license revocation or more depending on your circumstances and history.
In Maryland, a DUI is a serious misdemeanor and traffic violation. It’s not a felony unless it involves additional charges that are felonies. For example, the charge of manslaughter may apply if you hit and kill someone while driving drunk.
Yes, you will most likely have to pay fines for your DUI. First-time offenders are usually assigned $1,000 in fines and repeat offenders may pay $2,000 or up to $5,000. Keep in mind that other financial penalties sometimes apply too. If you damaged someone’s property, you could owe payment that reimburses them for their losses.
After an on-the-job injury, notify your supervisor or the company immediately and ensure they take an incident report. Next, see a doctor as soon as possible about your injuries and keep all of the related paperwork. Gather information from any witnesses to the incident. Make your official claim through the Maryland Workers’ Compensation Commission with […]
If you take your chances on reporting the injury because it’s not too serious, you may miss your opportunity to claim workers’ compensation. Even if your injury becomes worse or disabling later, the insurance company could argue that your injury wasn’t serious enough for you to make a claim immediately. Waiting almost always harms your […]
Unfortunately, supervisors and employers sometimes refuse to make incident reports about employee injuries, even though the state requires it if more than three days are missed from work . If you’re in this position, write down your own description of what happened and submit it to them anyway, requesting that they sign and date it. […]
In general, workers’ compensation pays two-thirds of your average weekly wage up to a certain level set by the state of Maryland. Your average weekly wage will be calculated based on your previous 14 weeks of work. If the average weekly wage is $1,050 then the workers’ compensation rate is $701. The highest rate in […]
It’s illegal for an employer to fire you solely due to your request for workers’ compensation under the Maryland Code for Labor and Employment. If you can prove you were terminated for this reason, you may have a case for civil action against the employer. However, Maryland is an employment-at-will state, which means your employer […]
There are various lenghts of time that a claim can be made, but typically you are not bound by these periods of time. However, there are periods that are statutorily firm that will cause your claim to be barred if the timing is not met correctly. The firm periods of time can be as short […]