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Senate committee hears debate over contributory negligence legislation (access required)

Posted: 7:41 pm Tue, March 19, 2013
By Steve Lash
Daily Record Legal Affairs Writer

Business lobbyists and plaintiffs’ attorneys battled before a Senate committee Tuesday over legislation that would codify Maryland’s longstanding court-made law that defendants cannot be held liable for damages if the plaintiffs’ negligence contributed at all to their injuries.

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