State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Gregorie

748 A.2d 1089 (2000)

131 Md. App. 317

STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY

v.

Corazon A. GREGORIE, et al.

No. 738, Sept. Term, 1999.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

March 31, 2000.

Michael J. Budow (Laura Basem Jacobs, Richard E. Schimel and Budow and Noble, P.C., on the brief), Bethesda, for appellant.

William N. Zifchak (Sasscer, Clagett & Bucher, on the brief), Upper Marlboro, for appellees.

Argued before WENNER, BYRNES and ADKINS, JJ.

ADKINS, Judge.

We examine in this appeal the nature and extent of the prejudice from an insured's refusal to cooperate, that a liability insurer must…