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Warning ? A Kvetch Can Be Dangerous!

By Perry S. Itkin, J.D., M.S.

Do you have mediator professional liability insurance? If not, why not? If yes, well . . . .

According to this article in the New Jersey Law Journal, the question could be posed another way: How angry do clients have to get before attorneys [substitute ?mediators?] must warn insurers a suit is possible?

In the ongoing litigation in General Star National Insurance Co. v. Law Offices of Robert A. Olkowitz, P.C., 07-5433, the insurance company asked a federal judge to rule it doesn't have to cover or defend its insured personal injury lawyer in a malpractice case because he didn?t notify the company when a client expressed displeasure with a settlement.

The attorney filed a motion to dismiss asking the judge to declare that a client?s expression of ?displeasure? does not, as a matter of law, trigger the responsibility to put a malpractice carrier on notice.

Hmmm!!! Something for mediators to think about. The article is well worth reading!

Full post as published by Florida Mediator on March 21, 2008 (boomark / email).