It’s rather shocking to read a legal malpractice action which arises after the U.S. Navy bombs a U.S. citizen, and at work, no less.  In any event, this legal malpractice case  comes about after the U.S. Navy bombed plaintiff, in error!

"Where (1) an employee of the plaintiff company was injured when a U.S. Navy plane errantly dropped two bombs near the employee’s workplace, (2) the injured employee eventually settled with the employer and the employer’s insurance carrier for $305,000, (3) the employee’s subsequent suit against the Navy was dismissed because the complaint erroneously failed to name the United States as a defendant and (4) the employer and its insurance carrier (the plaintiffs) then brought a legal malpractice action against the employee’s attorneys (the defendants), the legal malpractice complaint was correctly dismissed on the ground that the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act does not provide the plaintiffs with "a statutory right to seek damages against an injured employee’s attorneys for legal malpractice in pursuing the employee’s claims against a responsible third party."

The full opinion.