Sheppard & Enoch Pratt Hospital, Inc. v. Sakwa

BANKS, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. This appeal arises from an order of the circuit court granting the defendant’s motion for summary judgment. The plaintiff hospital, a Maryland corporation with its principal place of business in Maryland, seeks to collect from the defendant some $107,188.34 in unpaid bills for the treatment of his minor child, which it was unable to collect from the custodial parent. In accordance with our simultaneous opinion in the separate case of Sheppard Pratt Physicians, P.A. v. Sakwa, No. 93-CA-00160-SCT, 725 So.2d 755, we apply Maryland law and conclude that a…