JONES v. FLOOD

No. 124, Sept. Term, 1997.

716 A.2d 285 (1998)

351 Md. 120

Shirley JONES, Personal Representative of the Estate of Evelyn V. Manning v. Brian T. FLOOD et al.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

September 1, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven M. Nemeroff, Wortman & Nemeroff, P.A., on brief, College Park, for petitioner.

Sean D. Wallace, Deputy County Atty., on brief, Upper Marlboro, and Christopher R. Dunn (DeCaro, Doran, Siciliano, Gallagher & DeBlasis, L.L.P., on brief), Lanham, for respondent.

Argued before BELL, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, RAKER, WILNER and CATHELL, JJ.


RODOWSKY, Judge.

We issued the writ of certiorari in this case to decide whether the personal representative of a decedent, whose death was tortiously caused, may recover damages in a survival action measured by lost earnings for the period after death to the end of the statistical life expectancy that would have been predicted for the decedent if the tort had not occurred. In answering this question in the negative, we reject...

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