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Continuing Increase in Large Legal Malpractice Claims
/ 15.Jul, 2014Insurance broker Ames & Gough has released its fourth annual survey of lawyers’ professional liability claims. The insurance companies reported the number of claims has . . .
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Summary Judgment in Pennsylvania Legal Malpractice Action Reversed
/ 12.Jun, 2014In the case of Sokolsky v. Eidelman, 2014 PA Super 117, Janice Sokolsky asserted attorney Edward Eidelman did not pursue a medical malpractice action on her . . .
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$23.7 Million Settlement in Pennsylvania Legal Malpractice Lawsuit
/ 11.Feb, 2014K & L Gates and attorney Sanford Ferguson entered into a $23.7 million settlement with bankruptcy trustee Mark Kirschner late last month. The legal malpractice . . .
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Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct Amended
/ 01.Nov, 2013On October 22, 2013, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ordered the Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct be amended effective in 30 days. The order adopted . . .
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Lawyer’s Involvement in Ponzi Schemes
/ 02.Oct, 2013We have written before on our observation that nearly every Ponzi scheme seems to involve an attorney at one level or another. Following a three . . .
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Employee Theft and Attorney Responsibility
/ 14.Aug, 2013Barbara Kaplin, a legal secretary at the Connecticut law firm of Grady & Riley has been charged with stealing more than $1 million from a . . .
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Legal Malpractice and Coverage Issues Arising Out of Referral to a Financial Services Professional
/ 01.May, 2013Attorney Roger A. Giuliani has a history of problems. In 2004, a Nassau County, New York, judge awarded $2 million in punitive damages to a . . .
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Resources from the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bar Associations’ New Endorsed Carrier
/ 04.Apr, 2013The Pennsylvania Bar Association and the Philadelphia Bar Association have recently endorsed CNA as a professional liability insurance carrier. CNA offers some useful legal malpractice . . .
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The Superior Court’s Most Recent Legal Malpractice Ruling
/ 07.Mar, 2013On February 19, 2013, the Superior Court issued an opinion in O’Kelly v. Dawson, 421 WDA 2012. Superior Court’s opinion by Judge Wecht upheld a . . .
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Does an Excess Carrier Have Standing to Sue a Defense Counsel?
/ 26.Feb, 2013Claims Journal has a nice roundup of cases on whether a defense counsel retained by a primary insurer has an actionable attorney-client relationship with an . . .
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