Yesterday we took a look at RGH Liquidating Trust v Deloitte & Touche LLP  2013 NY Slip Op 31224(U)  June 6, 2013 Sup Ct, New York County  Docket Number: 600057/06  Judge: Eileen Bransten on the issue of standing.  Today, we’ll look at the proximate cause issue.  Just to remind you, this billion dollar professional malpractice…

It’s shocking to look at the list of banks which made an unsuccessful claim for professional malpractice in RGH Liquidating Trust v Deloitte & Touche LLP  2013 NY Slip Op 31224(U)
June 6, 2013  Sup Ct, New York County  Docket Number: 600057/06  Judge: Eileen Bransten and to realize that they were unable to recoup…

Money disputes between clients and attorneys are a rich source of litigation.  This is likely due to the low entry costs for attorneys to sue their clients, and the fact that clients are really relegated to the closed purse method of dealing with uncooperative attorneys.  Hence the stage is set for a large body of…

Uninsured Motorist’s Coverage is insurance that one buys for the instance in which the other driver is uninsured or underinsured.  Before that coverage, which has already been paid for, is triggered, several things must take place.  One is that the entire policy payout of the other driver must be obtained and the second is that…

Two lessons for legal malpractice practitioners and, upon consideration, for all attorneys can be found in Wild v Catholic Health Says. 2013 NY Slip Op 04043   Decided on June 6, 2013  Court of Appeals.  The first lesson is straightforward.  One must preserve objections in order to appeal from the resulting order.  Here,  "On appeal, defendants contend that…

On occasion, the bitterness and melancholy aspects of a case are cognizable merely from reading a motion decision.  In Bloomgarden v Lanza  2013 NY Slip Op 31221(U)  June 5, 2013
Supr Ct, Suffolk County  Docket Number: 8587-12  Judge: Daniel Martin  two parents, both doctors, sue California attorneys over representation of their son, convicted of…

This clearly written Court of Appeals case lays out the Insurance carrier’s obligation to defend legal malpractice cases, and what happens when they refuse to defend.  K2 Inv. Group, LLC v American Guar. & Liab. Ins. Co. ,2013 NY Slip Op 04270 , Decided on June 11, 2013  Court of Appeals, Smith, J.

The Adult Use industry was the subject of constitutional litigation in the City of New York, and was essentially limited to certain non-residential corridors.  In DeWitt, New Yorkits use is also limited.  What happens when an operator hires a law firm to help set up an adult use industry, and finds that the…