Shastri Narayan Swaroop, Inc. v. Hart

DAVIS, Judge.

Firefighter appellee, Jonathan Hart, on appeal, asseverates a belief that there is an undercurrent eroding application of the fireman’s rule. Because the trend has been “logically further extended,” he contends, by the recent decision of the Court of Appeals in Tucker v. Shoemake, 354 Md. 413, 731 A.2d 884 (1999), and our decision in Rivas v. Oxon Hill Joint Venture, 130 Md.App. 101, 744 A.2d 1076 (2000), he asks that we affirm the jury award of $454,396.43. The very decisions, upon which he relies, however, deftly submerge the proposition he espouses on appeal.

Appellee 1 filed…