Waller v. Keene

This case raises the narrow question whether a policy of workmen’s compensation insurance, issued to an individual employer, affords protection to the same insured against claims of an employee of a subsequently formed partnership of which the insured is a member engaged in the same or a similar business. 1 The Workmen’s Compensation Commission (the Commission) held that it did; the Circuit Court for Baltimore County held that it did not and entered judgment reversing the order of the Commission. The Court of Special Appeals in Waller v. Keene, 26 Md. App. 367, 338 A. 2d 355 (1975) affirmed…