Medical Mutual Liability Insurance Society of Maryland v. Davis

ELDRIDGE, Judge.

This case presents the single question of when post-judgment interest begins to accrue on a money judgment for tort damages, based on a jury verdict, when the judgment is subsequently reduced, via a remittitur, by the trial court. The defendant, Medical Mutual Liability Insurance Society of Maryland, asks us to determine whether the Circuit Court erred as a matter of law in awarding post-judgment interest, on the reduced judgment, from the date of the original judgment.

The plaintiffs, Williette Davis and Massaquoi Kamara, filed in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County…