DOCTOR'S WEIGHT LOSS CTRS. v. BLACKSTON

No. 17, Sept. Term, 2023.

319 A.3d 1102 (2024)

487 Md. 476

DOCTOR'S WEIGHT LOSS CENTERS, INC., et al. v. Shelly BLACKSTON.

Supreme Court of Maryland.

July 31, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Argued by David A. Roling, Wharton Levin, Annapolis, MD, and Michael K. Wiggins, and Trevor M. Shaw, The Wiggins Law Group, P.C., Columbia, MD, on brief, for Petitioners.

Argued by Alfred F. Belcuore, Law Offices of Alfred F. Belcuore, Washington, DC, and L. Palmer, Foret, Foret Law, PLLC, Washington, DC, on brief, for Respondent.

Amici Curiae The American Medical Association and Medchi, The Maryland State Medical: Philip S. Goldberg, Esquire, Christopher E. Appel, Esquire, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., 1800 K Street, NW, Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20006.

Argued before: Fader, C.J., Watts, Hotten, Booth, Biran, Gould, Eaves, JJ.


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INTRODUCTION

Pursuant to our choice of law rule, lex loci delicti, we apply the substantive law of the place of the wrong. For a tort, that is the place where the final element of the cause of action occurs. In the negligence context, that is generally where the first...

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