MEDICAL MUTUAL LIABILITY INS. SOCIETY OF MD. v. Azzato

MOTZ, Judge.

The question presented in this case is whether a physician’s medical malpractice insurer must provide coverage for injuries arising from the physician’s distribution of cocaine and other controlled drugs to a patient when a Health Claims Arbitration panel has concluded that this distribution constituted malpractice. Because the medical malpractice policy provides an exclusion for injuries arising out of a criminal act, which this distribution of illegal drugs plainly was, we vacate the order of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County granting judgment for the physician and against…