Vernell HARRIS
v.
BOARD OF EDUCATION OF HOWARD COUNTY.
Court of Appeals of Maryland.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
June 6, 2003.
June 6, 2003.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Anne E. Hoke (Ingerman & Horwitz, L.L.P., on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.
Matt M. Paavola, M. Crawford Keenan, Maryland Trial Lawyers Association, Baltimore, amicus curiae for petitioner.
Daniel H. Scherr (Reese and Carney, L.L.P., on brief), Columbia, for respondent.
David A. Skomba, Michael W. Prokopik, Franklin & Prokopik, Baltimore, Brief & Appendix of Amici Curiae, Maryland Association of Board of Education Workers' Compensation Group Self-Insurance Fund, Maryland Association of Community Services Workers' Compensation Self-Insurance Group and the Rockwood Casualty Insurance Company, amici curiae for respondent.
William A Kress, Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, Baltimore, Carmine G. D'Alessandro, Injured Workers' Insurance Fund, Towson, Brief of Amici Curiae, Baltimore Gas and Electric Company, Injured Workers' Insurance Fund, Johns Hopkins Medical System, Johns Hopkins University, The Maryland Chapters of Associated Builders and Contractors, The Maryland Self-Insurers' and Employers' Compensation Association, Inc. and The University of Maryland Medical System Corporation.
David S. Bliden, Executive Director, Maryland Association of Counties Incorporated, Annapolis, Brief of Amicus Curiae Maryland Association of Counties, Inc.
Argued Before BELL, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, HARRELL and BATTAGLIA, JJ.
Court of Appeals of Maryland.
ELDRIDGE, Judge.
We issued a writ of certiorari in this workers' compensation case for the purpose of reconsidering one particular line of this Court's opinions which have held that, for an injury to be covered as an "accidental injury" under the Workers' Compensation Act, Maryland Code (1991, 1999 Repl. Vol.), § 9-101 et seq. of the Labor and Employment Article, the injury must result from "unusual activity." The "unusual activity" requirement is not...
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