SHARROW v. STATE FARM MUTUAL

No. 111, September Term, 1985.

306 Md. 754 (1986)

511 A.2d 492

RONALD M. SHARROW, CHARTERED v. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

July 15, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Freishtat (W. Michael Mullen and Freishtat & Sandler, on brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Michael J. Budow (Richard E. Schimel and Budow & Noble, P.C., on brief), Bethesda, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY and McAULIFFE, JJ. and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals (retired), Specially Assigned.


MURPHY, Chief Judge.

This case involves allegations by an attorney that an insurance carrier has tortiously interfered with his contingent fee contract by settling a personal injury claim directly with the attorney's client. Determinative of the issue before us is the nature of the insurer's conduct that must be alleged in order for such a claim to be actionable and whether the allegations of fact in the attorney's complaint "state a claim upon which relief can be...

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