In a matter of first impression, the Maryland Appellate Courtroom declined to broaden the state’s Employees’ Compensation Act to supply protection for work-related accidents past lined staff and their dependents, however it nonetheless barred a non-dependent plaintiff’s wrongful loss of life lawsuit towards her late father’s employer.
Summer season Ledford, a non-dependent lady in her late 40s, filed a wrongful loss of life lawsuit towards Jenway Contracting, after her father fell to his loss of life whereas working as an worker in February 2021. It’s undisputed that the decedent’s loss of life was unintended and in the course of the course of his employment. The lawsuit was filed on Ledford’s behalf by Deborah Lynne Potter of Potter Burnett Regulation within the Baltimore County Circuit Courtroom alleging that Jenway’s negligence induced her father’s loss of life, and she or he sought damages for psychological anguish, emotional ache and struggling, lack of companies, society, companionship, consolation, safety, consideration, counseling, coaching, steerage, and schooling.
