Electrical General Corp. v. Labonte

Opinion by

Watts, J.

The purpose of the Maryland Workers’ Compensation Act, Md. Code Ann., Lab. & Empl. (1991, 2016 Repl. Vol.) (“LE”) §§ 9-101 to 9-1201, “is to protect workers and their families from hardships inflicted by work-related injuries by providing workers with compensation for loss of earning capacity resulting from accidental injury arising out of and in the course of employment.” Hollingsworth v. Severstal Sparrows Point, LLC, 448 Md. 648, 665, 141 A.3d 90, 94 (2016) (citation and internal quotation marks omitted). For purposes of the Workers’ Compensation Act, “an accidental…