American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. v. Mark Engineering Co.

In 1948, in Standard Wholesale Phosphate & Acid Works, Inc. v. Rukert Terminal Corp., 193 Md. 20, this Court construed the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act and, finding no controlling federal decisions on the point, held that the act made the obligation of a conforming employer to pay compensation to an injured employee exclusive and in place of all other liability to the employee or anyone else otherwise entitled to recover damages from the employer, at law or in admiralty, on account of the injury or death of the employee. From this the Court concluded that, in the…