Transcare Maryland, Inc. v. Murray

McDonald, j.

In the parable of the Good Samaritan, a man on the way from Jerusalem to Jericho is robbed, beaten, and left for dead. Two passers-by of significant social and religious status see the injured man, but choose to cross to the other side of the road. A third traveler of less repute, a Samaritan, comes to the man’s aid, takes him to an inn, tends to him through the night, and then pays the innkeeper the next morning to continue the man’s care.

We do not know from the parable whether the fear of civil liability discouraged the first two passers-by from intervening. *228In modern-day…