Md. Court of Special Appeals: Standard of care for elevators isn't going down

From: The Daily Record (Baltimore) | Date: May 1, 2007| Author: Brendan Kearney | Copyright information

Elevator owners and operators owe their passengers the "highest degree of care," the same duty owed to passengers of common carriers such as public buses, the Court of Special Appeals held Monday.

Relying on a century-old case, the appellate court affirmed a nearly $300,000 verdict for a Bermudian woman who was injured when a Johns Hopkins Hospital elevator stopped abruptly in August 2000.

On appeal, the hospital argued the 1906 decision in Belvedere Bldg. Co. v. Bryan has become...

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