MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, et al.
v.
Sharon E. CHASE, Personal Representative of the Estate of Carlean Burley, et al.
Court of Appeals of Maryland.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
July 27, 2000.
Reconsideration Denied August 21, 2000.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Timothy L. Mullin, Jr. (Edward W. Brady, Alicia C. Reynolds, Miles & Stockbridge, P.C., on brief), Baltimore, for petitioners.
John Amato, IV (Goodman, Meagher & Enoch, LLP, on brief), Baltimore, for respondents.
Thomas A. Woodley, Kurt T. Rumsfeld, Manar S. Morales, Mulholland & Hickey, Washington, DC, on brief of Amici Curiae International Ass'n of Fire Fighters, AFL-CIO, and other named organizations on behalf of Appellants.
Joel A. Smith, Linda Cortez, Kahn, Smith & Collins, P.A., Baltimore (counsel for Amici Curiae, Maryland State & District of Columbia Professional Firefighters, AFL-CIO, CLE, et al.), on briefs on behalf of Amici Curiae, Maryland State and District of Columbia Professional Fire Fighters, AFL-CIO-CLC; Baltimore City Fire Fighters, Local 734; Baltimore City Fire Officers, Local 964; Baltimore County Professional Fire Fighters Ass'n, Local 1311; Anne Arundel County Professional Fire Fighters, Local 1563; Hagerstown Professional Fire Fighters, Local 1605; Prince George's County Fire Fighters, Local 1619; Montgomery County Career Fire Fighters, Local 1644; Cumberland Fire Fighters, Local 1715; BWI Airport Fire Fighters, Local 1742; Annapolis Professional Fire Fighters, Local 1926; Howard County Professional Fire Fighters, Local 2000 and Career Firefighters Ass'n of Frederick County, Local 3666.
Argued before BELL, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL and ROBERT L. KARWACKI, (Retired, Specially Assigned), JJ.
Court of Appeals of Maryland.
BELL, Chief Judge.
The issue that we resolve in this opinion is the applicability of Maryland Code (1973, 1998 Repl.Vol., 1999 Cum. Supp.) § 5-604(a),1 which grants immunity to those within its coverage "from civil liability for any act or omission in the course of performing their duties," to a paramedic in the Baltimore City Fire Department. Consistent with the conclusion reached by the Circuit Court for Baltimore City and contrary...
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