Focus on… Super savers Casino’s prospects, the Purple Line and commercial When it comes to setting aside money for markets in Maryland’s Capital Region. 9A college, Maryland is way above average. 3A Friday, September 26, 2014 Volume 125 | Number 247 TheDailyRecord.com Transportation Zeroing in on breast cancer needs ignored, LaHood says He blasts tea party, calls for an increase in gasoline taxes BY BRYAN P. SEARS [email protected] Former U.S. Department of Trans- portation Secretary Raymond H. La- Hood told a Baltimore transportation summit Thursday that Congress’ failure to provide sustained funding for an ever-growing backlog of national trans- portation projects is the failure of parti- san politics and tea party Republicans. LaHood, speaking to a gathering of state and local offi- cials and area trans- portations experts, Hospital’s new radiation therapy called for an in- crease in the federal has targeted ‘boost’ to treatment gas tax. He said the country is in the BY ALISSA GULIN midst of a growing [email protected] transportation infra- structure crisis that As far as Dr. Rick Hudes is concerned, progress is will continue un- progress. And in medicine, he says, even incremental abated until voters improvements can be monumental. LaHood That’s why the chief of radiation oncology at Saint elect representatives MAXIMILIAN FRANZ Agnes Hospital in Baltimore chose to install a relatively willing to compro- At top, the Accuboost system is used to help adjust and target a more new and uncommon technology for delivering radiation mise on funding options. localized radiation treatment. Dr. Rick Hudes, chief of radiation oncology “I’m going to be pretty blunt here at Saint Agnes Cancer Center, says the technology makes radiation treatments to breast cancer patients. about things that you know about,” said treatment for breast cancer safer and more effective. Saint Agnes is the Known as AccuBoost, the system is supposed to be safer and more effective than traditional methods — but See transportation 17A only hospital in Maryland with the system, though some others are using similar technologies. See accuboost 8A Clancy battle highlights oddity in Maryland law Unable to sue lawyer for negligence, widow must try to have him removed BY DANNY JACOBS lion in estate taxes. [email protected] Clancy’s will and amendments were drafted by lawyers from Miles & Stockbridge P.C. in Baltimore. His personal representa- A lawyer “is not going to sue himself or his firm for profes- tive is J.W. Thompson Webb, a principal at the firm. sional negligence.” That would seem to be obvious. So, rather than suing Webb for legal malpractice, Alexandra But, because of Maryland estate law, the point had to be men- Clancy had to file a motion in Baltimore City Orphans’ Court tioned in this month’s court filing by the widow of Tom Clancy. seeking to remove Webb as personal representative of her late Alexandra Llewellyn Clancy is challenging what she calls a $6 husband’s estate, which is valued at $83 million. million mistake in the drafting and interpretation of Clancy’s will. “Mr. Webb’s actions demonstrate that he is unable to act to- Maryland is one of six states in the country where benefici- wards the beneficiaries of the Estate with the impartiality re- aries cannot sue the attorney who drafted a will. Instead, that op- quired of a fiduciary…,” the motion states. “Mr. Webb must be AP PHOTO/CARLOS OSORIO removed and replaced by a successor personal representative tion is available only to the personal representative of the estate. Tom Clancy poses next to the ‘low-mileage’ In this case, though, Clancy’s widow says the personal repre- who may investigate, evaluate and pursue a claim for profes- tank in his yard overlooking the Chesapeake sentative is the same person who drafted the provision she is sional negligence against Mr. Webb and his law firm.” Bay at his home in Prince Frederick in this challenging – the one she says will cost her an unintended $6 mil- See clancy 16A photo from October 1992. Auction sales 13B News briefs 4A Lawyer to lawyer 23A $269 per year For subscriptions INDEX Calendar 6A Law briefs 18A Public notice 1B call 1-800-451-9998 or email Employment 16A Litigation support 22A Sealed proposals 3B $2 per copy [email protected] 2A TheDailyRecord.com Friday, September 26, 2014 ONLINE TODAY BLOGS UPCOMING SPECIAL How to gain BDC denies tax break for proposed EBDI apartments reading momentum PUBLICATIONS AND READ The Baltimore Development Corp.’s board denied a re- ZEBULAN P. 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