SIMPSON v. MOORE

No. 156, September Term, 1989.

323 Md. 215 (1991)

592 A.2d 1090

ROBERT J. SIMPSON v. GARY E. MOORE ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Motion for Reconsideration Denied September 6, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph M. Mott (Miles & Stockbridge, on brief), Rockville, for appellant.

Carolyn A. Quattrocki, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Millicent Edwards Gordon, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore, MD and Mark H. Bowen, Staff Atty., Maryland State Police of Pikesville), all on brief, for appellee.

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


McAULIFFE, Judge.

Trooper Carey S. Poetzman was killed in the crash of a Maryland State Police helicopter on 19 January 1986. On 17 January 1989, her surviving spouse, Robert J. Simpson (plaintiff), after first obtaining an award for workers' compensation benefits, brought this action for wrongful death and survivor's benefits. The plaintiff contends the accident resulted from the negligence of two of the decedent's coemployees, and that either they, or the State...

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