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Malpractice Suits within Suits: Texas Court Throws out Attorney Malpractice Suit over Medical Malpractice Case
An Austin court recently upheld the tossing out of a malpractice suit a former client filed against his attorney over failure to sue doctors for Celebrex related medical malpractice...

Legal Malpractice Suit Addresses Interesting Bankruptcy Issues
Law.com recently reported, here, on an interesting New York legal malpractice case.  According to the article, the former partners of defunct New York law firm, Hall Dickler - known as a leading advertising law boutique - are facing a legal malpractice suit for failing to advise a company to file bankruptcy earlier than it did...

Barnett v. Schwartz and Pre-Judgment Interest in Legal Malpractice
The question of pre-judgment interest in legal malpractice has not been widely understood .  Generally, it was thought that an award of pre-judgment interest was determined on the same basis as in the underlying case...

Legal Malpractice Statutes of Limitation - Tort and Contract
Interesting legal malpractice case from Division Two, Keonjian v. Olcott, dealing with the issue of when the statute of limitations begins to run and whether the tort or contract limitation period applies...

SPI's "Jaundiced" Facts Used to Solicit "Protection" Services for Plaintiff Lawyers
In an effort to solicit attorneys to retain it to protect them from legal malpractice liability Settlement Professionals (SPI) makes the following inaccurate statements: "In Macomber v Travelers Property & Casualty Company and Lyons v Medical Malpractice Insurance Assoc...

Celanese Hits Kaye Scholer With Malpractice Suit
Chemical and plastics giant Celanese has slapped Kaye Scholer, one of its former law firms, with a malpractice suit, alleging that discovery mistakes led to a $107 million settlement the company would not have otherwise agreed to...

National Practitioner Data Bank Fact
NPDB identifies unprofessional healthcare practitioners

Mesothelioma Law Suit
Asbestos Exposure

Gallbladder Surgery Errors Damage Bile Duct
X-ray Procedures Can Reduce Gall Bladder Surgery Error Rates

Accounting Malpractice - Accountant Malpractice, Accounting Malpractice Lawsuit
Accounting Malpractice alleging financial malpractice by accountants.

Legal Malpractice
legal malpractice lawsuits.

Medical Malpractice Suit Settled for $1.69 Million
Medical Malpractice Suit Settled for $1.69 Million

Jury Awards $1.8 Million in Legal Malpractice Suit
Jury Awards $1.8 Million in Legal Malpractice Suit

Juniper Ridge
Bend City agrees to pay Juniper Ridge Partners a $2.56 million settlement regarding city development.

Birthing Malpractice
Kaiser Permanente pays $3.2 million medical malpractice settlement.