WARREN v. WARREN

No. 4, September Term, 1994.

336 Md. 618 (1994)

ELIZABETH M. WARREN v. ALBERT DOWNES WARREN, III, A MINOR, ETC. ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

December 8, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia McHugh Lambert (Smith, Somerville & Case, all on brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

John H. West, III (Manfred W. Leckszas, Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver, all on brief), Baltimore, Jeffrey E. Thompson (Thompson & Thompson, all on brief), Centreville, for appellee.

Thomas V. Monahan, Jr., Susan T. Preston (Goodell, Devries, Leech & Gray, all on brief), Baltimore, Gary I. Strausberg, Randal D. Getz (Janet & Strausberg, all on brief), Baltimore, Paul D. Bekman, Carol J. Glover (Israelson, Salsbury, Clements & Bekman, all on brief), Baltimore, for amicus curiae.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL and RAKER, JJ.


KARWACKI, Judge.

In this case we are called upon to reexamine the status of the doctrine of parent-child tort immunity in Maryland in light of the large number of states recently abrogating it either altogether or in cases involving motor vehicle torts. This question is presented in the context of whether we should extend parent-child immunity to protect a stepparent from a personal injury claim filed by a stepchild injured in an automobile accident caused by the...

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