JOHNSON v. MARYLAND STATE POLICE

No. 130, September Term, 1991.

331 Md. 285 (1993)

628 A.2d 162

KRISTINE L. JOHNSON ET AL. v. MARYLAND STATE POLICE.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

July 26, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

I. Duke Avnet, Baltimore, for appellant.

Carolyn A. Quattrocki, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Mark H. Bowen, Asst. Atty. Gen., Pikesville, on brief), for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW, KARWACKI and ROBERT M. BELL, JJ.


ELDRIDGE, Judge.

The Maryland Tort Claims Act was enacted by Ch. 298 of the Acts of 1981, now codified at Code (1984, 1993 Repl.Vol.), §§ 12-101 et seq., of the State Government Article. The Act waives, to a large extent, state governmental immunity in tort and allows tort suits to be brought against the State under certain circumstances. As originally enacted, the Tort Claims Act included a requirement that, prior to filing suit, a claimant must...

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