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Liability Insurers and Defense Costs- Seventh Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Insurer
Posted by: Jason Reese
August 27, 2008
TIG Insurance Co. v. Giffin Winning Cohen & Bodewes, P.C., the Seventh Circuit blocked a liability insurer's attempt to re-coup some of its policyholder's defense costs by filing a legal malpractice suit against the law firm that initially represented the policyholder.
Alderstein v. Duane Morris
Posted by: Jason Reese
August 27, 2008
A 1.6 million dollar legal malpractice trial went underway in late 2001 in Philadelphia's Commerce Court Program before Common Pleas Judge Howland Abramson. This case concerns whether a settlement agreement that attorney Duane Morris helped his client reach should have provided security in the event the other side did not pay up.
Failure to List Legal Malpractice Lawsuit as an Asset In a Bankruptcy Leads to Dismissal of Lawsuit
Posted by: Jason Reese
August 27, 2008
An article in the Chicago Daily Bulletin concerning a decision by the Illinois Appellate Court was discussed dealing with the failure to schedule legal malpractice claims in a bankruptcy. According to the article, the Illinois Appellate Court dismissed a couple's legal-malpractice lawsuit based on a lack of standing because of their failure to list the cause of action as an asset during their bankruptcy proceeding.
Failure to List Statute of Limitations - Indiana Lawyer Malpractice
Posted by: Jason Reese
August 27, 2008
The number one reason attorneys are sued by their clients is for failure to timely file the clients claim under the statute of limitations. In Indiana, a claim must typically be filed within 2 years from the date the client knew or should have known about his injury or damage. Attorneys and their staff sometimes fail to file the claim within the deadline period. As a result, clients become victims of attorney malpractice. Clients should pursue claims against their attorneys if the claim that was mishandled was meritorious and the clients lost his or her recovery rights as a result of the failure to comply with the statute of limitations.
Illinois Appellate Court Holds That Defendant
Posted by: Jason Reese
August 27, 2008
To plead a cause of action for legal malpractice, a plaintiff must allege facts that support a finding that...
A Quick Explanation of Legal Malpractice
Posted by: Jason Reese
August 27, 2008
Just like doctors, accountants, engineers, or other professionals, attorneys have a duty to exercise reasonable care in representing their clients. Legal malpractice is the negligent practice of law, breach of fiduciary duty, or breach of contract by an attorney that causes damage to his or her client. In order to prove legal malpractice...
