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MONTGOMERY MUTUAL INS. CO. v. CHESSON

No. 110, September Term, 2006.

923 A.2d 939 (2007)

399 Md. 314

MONTGOMERY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY v. Josephine CHESSON, et al.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

May 23, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy J. Courson (Dirska & Levin, Columbia), on brief, for petitioner.

Jerome A. Murphy, William L. Anderson, Crowell & Moring, LLP, Washington, DC, brief of The Coalition for Litigation Justice, Inc., for petitioner, amicus curiae.

John Parker Sweeney, Benjamin A. Homola, Miles & Stockbridge, P.C., Baltimore, T. Sky Woodward, Miles & Stockbridge, P.C., Towson, brief of Maryland Defense Counsel, Inc., National Association of Home Builders, and The National Multi Housing Council, for petitioner, amici curiae.

Gerald F. Gay (Arnold, Sevel & Gay, P.A., Baltimore), on brief, for respondents.

Timothy J. Hogan, James A. Lanier, Law Offices of Peter T. Nicholl, Baltimore, Bruce M. Bender, Van Grack, Axelson, Williamowsky, Bender & Fishman, P.C., Rockville, James K. MacAlister, Baltimore, brief of Maryland Trial Lawyers Association, for respondents, amicus curiae.

Argued before BELL, C.J., RAKER, CATHELL, HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE and ALAN M. WILNER (Retired, specially assigned), JJ.

RAKER, J.

This appeal arises from a final judgment in a workers' compensation matter in which a jury in the Circuit Court for Howard County returned a verdict in favor of respondents and against the Baltimore Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church and Montgomery Mutual Insurance Company. Respondents claimed that they each had sustained an accidental injury or occupational disease, known as "sick building syndrome,"1 arising...

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