FOWLKES v. CHOUDHRY

No. 6, Sept. Term, 2020.

248 A.3d 298 (2021)

472 Md. 688

Lolita D. FOWLKES v. Shabbir Ahmed CHOUDHRY.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

March 26, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Argued by Thomas C. Cardaro ( Jeffrey L. Peek and C. Drew Fritch , Cardaro & Peek, LLC, Baltimore, MD), on brief, for Petitioner.

George S. Tolley III, Esquire , Dugan, Babij, Tolley & Kohler, LLC, 1966 Greenspring Drive, Suite 500, Timonium, MD 21093, for Amicus Curiae Maryland Association for Justice, Inc.

Argued by John R. Fischel ( Edward W. Brady , Brady, Fischel & Daily, LLC, Annapolis, MD), on brief, for Respondent.

Mitchell Y. Mirviss, Esquire , Emily J. Wilson, Esquire , Venable LLP, 750 East Pratt Street, 9th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21202, for Amici Curiae Medical Mutual Liability Society of Maryland, and Medchi, The Maryland State Medical Society.

Argued before: Barbera, C.J., McDonald, Hotten, Getty, Booth, Biran, Lynne A. Battaglia (Senior Judge, Specially Assigned), JJ.


This Court granted certiorari in the present case to determine what must be proven in a wrongful death medical malpractice case in order for a parent to recover pecuniary, also referred to as economic, damages for the alleged loss of household services rendered by a deceased adult child to the parent, under the Wrongful Death Act,...

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