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Beware EPTL 5-4.6 Wrongful Death Legal Malpractice Trap in New York

By John Darer

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The New York State legislature amended EPTL 5-4.6 in 2005, to create a mechanism pursuant to which the lawyer representing a plaintiff in a wrongful death case may have the Supreme Court order the settlement sum be paid into the escrow account AFTER the settlement has been reached in the trial court BUT BEFORE the Surrogate has reviewed the settlement for proper allocation an distribution. In this video Registered Settlement Planner John Darer discusses the potential legal malpractice trap.

Full post as published by Structured Settlements 4Real on February 21, 2010 (boomark / email).

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