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.