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MAZZA v. MEDICAL MUT. INS. CO. OF N.C.

No. 415PA83.

319 S.E.2d 217 (1984)

311 N.C. 621

Jeffrey P. MAZZA v. MEDICAL MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH CAROLINA and Robert A. Huffaker.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

August 28, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Boyce, Mitchell, Burns & Smith, P.A. by G. Eugene Boyce and Lacy M. Presnell, III, Fayetteville, for plaintiff-appellee.

Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan by James D. Blount, Jr., Henry A. Mitchell, Jr. and Nigle B. Barrow, Jr., Raleigh, for defendant-appellant Medical Mut. Ins. Co. of North Carolina.

COPELAND, Justice.

Medical Mutual maintains that it is not liable for either the punitive damages or the actual damages awarded to plaintiff, and that the trial court committed reversible error in finding it liable. With regard to both the punitive and actual damages, the insurance company proffers similar arguments in support of its contention of non-liability. Defendant first argues that North Carolina's public policy...

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