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A lawsuit has been filed by the family of two Houston children

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A lawsuit has been filed by the family of two Houston children who were severely burned by a dangling power wire. The lawsuit claims the children's parents notified the power company weeks before the incident about the potentially dangerous wires, but nothing was done to fix them. One of the children caught on fire and required multiple skin grafts; both were hospitalized with their injuries.

In Maryland, this type of claim unfortunately might not succeed under the current law on contributory negligence. With a contributory negligence standard, if a jury finds that the children were even partly at fault (such as the parents told them not to go near the wires, but they did anyway), the children would not be able to recover anything.

We're hoping the law in Maryland changes soon to allow comparative negligence, which would allow recovery, but reduce it for the percentage that the injured party was at fault. Click here to read more
 
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