Medical Mutual Liability Society v. B. Dixon Evander & Associates, Inc.

This case concerns challenges to awards of compensatory and punitive damages in a suit alleging wrongful interference with business relationships.

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The present litigation arose out of a dispute between an insurance agency, Evander, Inc., owned by B. Dixon Evander, and an insurer, Medical Mutual Liability Society of Maryland. In 1989, Medical Mutual insured approximately six hundred doctors through Evander, Inc. During the 1980s, Medical Mutual had achieved a near monopoly in the Maryland medical malpractice insurance market, principally because other providers of such insurance had withdrawn…