WILSON v. MORRIS

No. 52, September Term, 1988.

317 Md. 284 (1989)

563 A.2d 392

ANN G. WILSON ET AL. v. CONNIE I. MORRIS, PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF IRENE MAE RAGLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

September 12, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph S. Tyler, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Carmen M. Shepard, Lydia B. Duff, Asst. Attys. Gen., Baltimore, Richard R. Page Wyrough, Farrington, Smallwood & Wells, Landover), all on brief, for petitioner.

Daniel F. Goldstein (Elizabeth M. Kameen, Brown & Goldstein, Baltimore, William Schildt, Strite, Schildt & Varner, Hagerstown), all on brief, for respondent.

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


BLACKWELL, Judge.

In this personal injury case, we evaluate two important issues accepted for certiorari: 1) whether evidence of prior and subsequent policies of a day care center in attending patients is admissible to show a breach of the standard of care and 2) does a juror's statement regarding "the insurance crisis" and the high cost of injury cases establish juror bias so as to warrant a mistrial. We shall affirm the intermediate appellate court's decision remanding...

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