OGRINZ v. JAMES

No. 150, September Term, 1986.

309 Md. 381 (1987)

524 A.2d 77

ALEXANDER J. OGRINZ III ET AL. v. WILLIAM S. JAMES ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

April 21, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Birrane, Jr. (Patrick A. O'Doherty and Barbara Mello, on brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

George A. Nilson and Robert A. Zarnoch, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Kathleen M. Sweeney, Margaret Lee Quinn, Linda H. Lamone, Asst. Attys. Gen., on brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, COUCH, McAULIFFE and ADKINS, JJ.


MURPHY, Chief Judge.

This case primarily involves a challenge to the constitutionality of Chapter 281 of the Acts of 1986, which authorized the incorporation, capitalization and operation of a mutual insurance company for the purpose of writing policies of lawyers' professional liability insurance.

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By Chapter 713 of the Acts of 1977, the General Assembly added Subtitle 40 to the Insurance Code entitled: "Legal Mutual Liability Insurance Society...

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