Law Firm Immune from Insurer's Negligent Misrepresentation Claims ...

NEW ORLEANS — A law firm is immune from claims that it negligently misrepresented the facts of a lawsuit to an insurer while representing ...

Schiff Hardin Immune From Insurer's Suit Over $34 Million Verdict ...

... negligent misrepresentation after determining the law firm could not be liable to a nonclient under the attorney immunity defense doctrine.

Liability for Alleged Misrepresentations Made to Excess Insurer

The 5th Circuit found attorney immunity applies to liability for negligent misrepresentations and omissions made to non-clients, ...

Fifth Circuit Affirms Broad Scope of Attorney Immunity Defense in ...

By extending the applicability of the attorney immunity doctrine to negligent misrepresentation claims filed by non-clients and linking the ...

Schiff Hardin Immune From Insurer's Suit Over $34 Million Verdict ...

... attorney immunity against Ironshore's negligent misrepresentation claim. In ... misrepresentations were somehow separate from the law firm's representation of ...

filed - Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

negligent misrepresentation against Schiff Hardin, alleging that the firm made ... Attorney Immunity from Negligent Misrepresentation Claims. As ...

Insurance Carrier Allowed to Sue Attorney For Failing to Disclose ...

... claim was barred by the doctrine of attorney immunity. ... The court distinguished cases holding that negligent misrepresentation claims ...

Common Law Fraudulent Misrepresentation and Negligent ...

(allowing fraud claim to proceed where attorney stated there was no way to pierce the corporate veil, thereby implying that no facts existed to support veil ...

Protecting Law Firms: Understanding Potential Claims and the ...

This occurs when a client alleges that a lawyer or the firm's negligence, errors, or omissions led to financial losses or harm to their case.

Fifth Circuit Reaffirms Attorney Immunity Doctrine - Hanna Plaut

The district court denied an attorney's motion to dismiss a lawsuit against it by an excess insurance carrier complaining it was misled about ...

In a Case of First Impression, Court Finds That McKennon Law ...

... claim for negligence, negligent misrepresentation, and fraud ... insurance company for wrongfully and negligently paying her life insurance benefits?

Defenses for Lawyers Who Find Themselves in Litigation

94 The claims against the attorney and the law firm included negligent misrepresentation and fraud. ... was not immune because it committed fraud while ...

The 'privity-like' requirement for professional negligence and ...

Claims for professional negligence and negligent misrepresentation generally require a showing of some type of privity between the plaintiff and defendant.

Missouri - ALFA International

Rather, insureds must bring a breach of contract claim against the insurer if (1) coverage is wrongfully denied; or (2) to seek recovery above what the insurer ...

Guide to Immunity Laws - Coalition Against Insurance Fraud

(4)(a) Each insurance company licensed to do business in this state that, in a lawsuit involving a fraudulent insurance act, obtains a judgment or settlement ...

FRAUD AND MISREPRESENTATION CLAIMS AGAINST LAWYERS

ness lawyers are natural targets of fraud and negligent misrepresentation claims ... fraud claim, because the Arkansas lawyer-immunity.

“Uninsured location” exclusion in homeowner's policy precludes ...

The Massachusetts Appeals Court recently held, based on an “uninsured location” exclusion in a homeowner's policy, that an insurer was not required to defend ...

McCamish, Martin, Brown & Loeffler v. F.E. Appling Interests - Casetext

v. Rhodes-Haverty Partnership, 300 S.E.2d 503 (Ga. 1983)). Therefore, an attorney can be subject to a negligent misrepresentation claim in a ...

The Duty to Another in the Context of Negligence, Negligent ...

“A claim for negligent misrepresentation requires the plaintiff to demonstrate (1) the existence of a special or privity-like relationship ...

Statute and Common Law Provide Immunity for Insurers Reporting ...

of Illinois,[6] Section 406 served as the basis for the Supreme Court, New York County, to dismiss a claim against an insurance company seeking ...