Watson v. Peoples Security Life Insurance

*469RODOWSKY, Judge.

This is an abusive discharge case in which the jury found for the plaintiff. The Court of Special Appeals reversed, concluding, over a dissent (Bishop, J.), that the plaintiff had failed to prove the claim. Peoples Security Life Ins. Co. v. Watson, 81 Md.App. 420, 568 A.2d 835 (1990). The evidence most favorable to the plaintiff is that the discharge was in retaliation for the plaintiffs having sued a co-worker for a sexual harassment assault and battery, a joined claim on which the jury also found for the plaintiff. As explained below, an abusive discharge action lies.

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