Miller & Zois
About the firm
Miller & Zois is a Baltimore-based personal injury law firm that handles serious accident and death claims on behalf of victims and their families, including car accidents, medical malpractice, truck accidents, motorcycle accidents, product liability, and wrongful death. The firm has recovered over $100 million for clients in verdicts and settlements and prosecutes sexual abuse and drug and medical device injury cases nationwide.
Notable results
A Baltimore jury awarded $10 million to the family of Dennis Allen, a pastor who died in 2013 after University of Maryland Medical Center administered Kayexalate with sorbitol, causing colonic necrosis; the verdict was affirmed on appeal and reduced to $906,250 under Maryland's statutory cap.
A Prince George's County jury awarded $5.5 million after a 53-year-old woman bled to death when improperly placed cardiac pacing wires lacerated her bypass graft upon removal five days after open-heart surgery.
A Baltimore City jury awarded $5.2 million after Saint Agnes Hospital emergency staff sent Kevin Tolson home with a knee-strain diagnosis, missing a torn popliteal artery that led to an above-the-knee amputation two days later.
A Montgomery County jury returned a $2.5 million verdict for the family of Lawrence Dixon, 59, who died two days after a fall because his physician failed to recognize and treat the signs of hemorrhagic shock from a pelvic fracture.
A Baltimore County jury awarded $1.5 million to Wanda Saffer, 72, after finding that gastroenterologist Dr. Mark Noar performed an ERCP without her informed consent, causing necrotizing pancreatitis that left her with permanent digestive and metabolic injuries.
After a night-shift janitor stepped into an unmarked, uncovered trench left by electrical workers at a Baltimore County school, a Baltimore City jury awarded her $537,365 for a severe ankle fracture that kept her off her feet for three years.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
