Sharrow v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

This case involves allegations by an attorney that an insurance carrier has tortiously interfered with his contingent fee contract by settling a personal injury claim directly with the attorney’s client. -Determinative of the issue before us is the nature of the insurer’s conduct that must be alleged in order for such a claim to be actionable and whether the allegations of fact in the attorney’s complaint “state a claim upon which relief can be granted.” Md. Rule 2-322(b)(2).

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On December 24,1983, Donald P. Zorbach was involved in an accident with an automobile insured by…