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The Maryland rule
One percent changes everything.
Client's recovery
0%
1%
Not reduced. Gone.
Maryland is one of the last strict contributory negligence states. If the defense convinces a jury your client was even one percent at fault, the recovery isn't reduced — it disappears entirely.
So they don't argue how badly your client was hurt. They attack the gap before the first documented complaint and call everything “mild” or “pre-existing” — a playbook that beats subjective pain testimony, but not objective, physician-signed findings tied to the mechanism of injury. That's the entire reason GMS exists.
