HOFFMAN v. LIBERTY MUTUAL

[No. 344, September Term, 1962.]

232 Md. 51 (1963)

191 A.2d 575

HOFFMAN v. LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 17, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald H. Cooper for the appellant.

J. William Schneider, Jr., and Eugene A. Edgett, Jr., for the appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HENDERSON, PRESCOTT, MARBURY and SYBERT, JJ.


MARBURY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

At issue on this appeal from the granting of appellee's motion for summary judgment, is the question whether an insurance carrier may defeat the statutory lien of an attorney for his fee by applying funds held in escrow, pursuant to an order of the Workmen's Compensation Commission, to satisfy an overpayment made to a claimant.

The facts in this case are not in dispute. The appellant, Leon Hoffman, a practicing...

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