NEWS
By Tricia Bishop, The Baltimore Sun | October 28, 2011
During an emotional hearing Friday, the Maryland Public Service Commission adopted new regulations intended to prevent accidental electrocutions like the one that killed 14-year-old Deanna Green at a church softball game in Druid Hill Park more than five years ago. The requirements will force state electric companies to find — and eliminate — dangerous "contact voltage" in public objects that can transmit electricity, such as streetlights, traffic...
NEWS
By Liz F. Kay, The Baltimore Sun | July 7, 2011
State utility regulators weighed concerns about balancing safety and cost Thursday, as they considered rules to minimize the risk of accidental electrocution when objects such as streetlights become electrified. The "Deanna Camille Green Regulations" were proposed by parents of the 14-year-old Randallstown girl who was fatally electrocuted when she touched two fences at a Druid Hill Park softball field in 2006. The fences were in contact with an underground wire, and Anthony and Nancy Green want to prevent similar tragedies.
NEWS
By Peter Hermann, The Baltimore Sun | September 28, 2010
The family of a 14-year-old girl who was electrocuted on a Druid Hill Park softball field in 2006 has settled a lawsuit with a private contractor, but is seeking to revive litigation against the city that a judge had previously dismissed. An attorney for Douglas Electric and Lighting confirmed the settlement but said the amount was confidential. The lawyer for the company, Thomas V. McCarron, said executives decided to negotiate after a judge granted the city immunity but allowed the family to pursue the electrical company in court.
BUSINESS
By Gus G. Sentementes and Baltimore Sun reporter | August 20, 2010
Charles Casey, a former pastor who used to live in Maryland, is suing Best Buy and its Geek Squad computer repair service for allegedly making negligent repairs on his computer, which caused it to shock him severely as soon as he plugged his printer into it, according to a federal lawsuit filed yesterday in Maryland. Casey, who lived in Cockeysville, Md., but now lives in Florida with his wife, said in the lawsuit that as soon as he plugged it in, he suffered "a severe electric shock that ran through his body, with tingling in his right hand up to his shoulder, across his tongue and down his left arm. " Casey had presented his computer for repair in early September 2007 to the Geek Squad at the Best Buy in the 1700 block of York Road in Timonium, the lawsuit states.
NEWS
By Jessica Anderson, The Baltimore Sun | July 28, 2010
The 63-year-old Annapolis man killed on his jet ski during Sunday's severe thunderstorm was electrocuted by a nearby lightning strike, police said Wednesday. Maryland Natural Resources Police released the preliminary cause of death for Warren Douglas Smith, and said a final autopsy is scheduled for next month. The accident occurred about half mile south of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge during the storm. Police said Smith, who was riding a jet ski prior to the accident, was caught in the storm.
NEWS
By Liz F. Kay, The Baltimore Sun | May 14, 2010
Relatives of a 14-year-old girl who was electrocuted on a Druid Hill Park softball field said they plan to pursue further legal action against the city after a Baltimore Circuit Court judge dismissed some parts of a civil suit they filed against an electrical contractor in the incident. But Judge Shirley M. Watts denied a defense motion to dismiss other parts of the lawsuit, including negligence, that might go to a jury trial, while requesting more briefs. Deanna Green had been stretching before a church softball game in May 2006 when she touched two fences, one of which was touching an underground cable, according to authorities.