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HARRIS v. HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEM. CO.

No. 1628, September Term, 1982.

55 Md. App. 441 (1983)

462 A.2d 81

HILDRETH T. HARRIS v. HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEMNITY COMPANY.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 13, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin E. Gerel, with whom were Ashcraft & Gerel on the brief, for appellant.

Alfred J. Dirska, with whom were O'Malley, Miles, Farrington & McCarthy on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before WILNER and ALPERT, JJ., and LLOYD L. SIMPKINS, Associate Judge of the First Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.

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

In Cooper v. Wicomico County, 284 Md. 576 (1979), the Court of Appeals struck down as unconstitutional an attempt by the General Assembly to increase workmen's compensation benefits retrospectively — i.e., to increase the amount of benefits payable under awards made prior to the enactment. That result followed a conclusion previously announced in Cooper v. Wicomico...

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