SEARS, ROEBUCK AND COMPANY, INC. v. RALPH

No. 20 September Term, 1995.

340 Md. 304 (1995)

SEARS, ROEBUCK AND COMPANY, INC. ET AL. v. ANNE M. RALPH.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

November 9, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allan H. Kittleman, Herwig & Humphreys, Baltimore, for Petitioner.

Bruce M. Bender, Van Grack, Axelson, Williamowsky & Jacobs, P.C., Rockville, for Respondent.

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


RODOWSKY, Judge.

In this workers' compensation case the claim is for permanent total disability allegedly resulting from a low back injury suffered by a claimant who died while receiving temporary total disability compensation and who, months after his death, was rated for permanency by his former treating physician. The employer and insurer contend that a posthumous rating is incompetent evidence, per se, in "other cases" determinations, and, in any event...

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