When Maryland residents purchase their homes, they work with real estate agents to help ensure that they end up with the house of their dreams. Home buyers work with these professionals because they know that real estate agents have information about the industry and...
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Report: Physicians surrender licenses, keep practicing anyhow
Is your doctor keeping a secret? Your doctor may have surrendered his or her medical license in another state — rather than waiting for that state's medical board to revoke it — and you'd never know. When doctors commit outrageous acts of medical malpractice or cross...
If you spot these issues, it’s time to fire your accountant
As a small business owner, you need to be able to rely on your accountant to handle your financial affairs. It's your accountant's job to keep accurate records, file your taxes in a timely manner and compile the necessary documents that will portray your company's...
Leaving a hospital against medical advice and malpractice
If a patient decides to leave a hospital of his or her own accord -- against the attending physician's recommendation -- does that relieve the attending physician of any liability for malpractice if something later goes wrong? There's no easy answer to this question....
Recognizing psychiatric malpractice
When is a bad outcome with a psychiatric patient unavoidable and when is it a sign of malpractice on the part of the mental health professional who was treating the patient? Mental health professionals have a legal and ethical obligation to act when a patient is...
When should you sue your investment adviser?
If money ends up missing from your investment accounts, you know that there's obvious wrongdoing and you need to take legal action. However, what happens when your investment adviser makes some serious mistakes that cost you a fortune? Can you sue, or are you simply...
Should you sue your therapist for malpractice?
Psychiatry isn't an exact science. Variable outcomes can occur even with the best treatment. Therefore, it can be difficult to tell the difference between a psychologist that just fails to help a patient and one that's guilty of malpractice.Because psychiatric...
When you wonder if your attorney failed you
Lawyers don't all come with the same set of skills and some of them make mistakes that end up harming their clients.At times, those mistakes can amount to actual malpractice -- at which point clients have a right to sue their attorney over the bad outcome of a case....
Look for these signs of accounting negligence
If you own a business, it's critical to have good support services, including an accountant. You also need to be able to rely on that accountant to meet certain minimum standards that are at least level with any other member of the profession.When an accountant fails...
Trust and estate malpractice claims
The aging American population is increasingly turning to family law attorneys to complete important end-of-life documents like their wills or establish trusts and other financial management vehicles for the future. Many of those attorneys are also paid to manage...