Legal Opinion
General Motors Corp. v. Piskor
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided December 23, 1977No. [No. 64, September Term, 1977.]PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLevine, J.
At the heart of this appeal is the question whether our holding in H & R Block, Inc. v. Testerman, 275 Md. 36, 338 A. 2d 48 (1975), requires an employee to prove actual malice — in the common law sense of spite, hatred or animosity — in order to recover punitive damages in an action against his. employer for false imprisonment and assault.
This is the second time this case has been before us. In General Motors Corp. v. Piskor, 277 Md. 165, 352 A. 2d 810 (1976), we were concerned with the nature of the proof necessary to sustain an award of punitive damages in defamation cases as a matter of…
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