4/18/13
By: Dana Maine and William Ezzell Following last month’s unanimous opinion from the Georgia Supreme Court that legal malpractice claims were not per se unassignable, the State Bar of Georgia successfully implemented a counterstrike aimed at barring the assignment of all legal malpractice claims. The case, Villanueva v. First American Title Insurance Company, involved a legal practice claim against…
Stranger Danger: Georgia Joins Minority View and Allows Assignability of Legal Malpractice Claims
4/2/13
By: Dana Maine Legal malpractice carriers be aware that you will now be on the hook for defending your insureds in actions brought by strangers to any attorney-client relationship. The Georgia Supreme Court just answered the question on the minds of Georgia attorneys and legal malpractice practitioners across the country – legal malpractice claims are…