ALEXANDER v. EVANDER

No. 53, September Term, 1993.

336 Md. 635 (1994)

ALEXANDER & ALEXANDER INC. AND MARY D. SCHEELER v. B. DIXON EVANDER & ASSOCIATES, INC.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

December 8, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nell B. Strachan (Benjamin R. Civiletti, Mitchell Y. Mirviss, Venable, Baetjer and Howard, all on brief), Baltimore, for petitioners.

Jim McCadden, Towson (Patrick A. O'Doherty, Amy J. Muffolett, all on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, BELL and RAKER, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Judge (retired), Specially Assigned.


ELDRIDGE, Judge.

This case involves a challenge to awards of punitive damages against Alexander & Alexander, an insurance broker, and against Mary Scheeler, one of its vice presidents. A jury awarded the punitive damages under a count alleging tortious interference with a contractual arrangement concerning insurance commissions. The jury determined that the plaintiff, B. Dixon Evander & Associates, Inc., was entitled to $4,000,000.00 in punitive damages from...

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