Professional Liability Matters

The Superior Court of Pennsylvania recently affirmed the summary judgment dismissal of a multi-million-dollar legal malpractice case against a Pennsylvania attorney defended by Goldberg Segalla.

The victory — secured by partner Seth Laver with assistance from partner Daniel Strick and attorney Joseph Ross — was particularly significant in that it involved complex, underlying issues and was heard in the often-difficult Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.

The dispute stemmed from an injury suffered by a non-party who for 14 years was employed as a hotel waiter …

Stellar defense work by Goldberg Segalla partner Christopher F. Lyon and associate Matthew H. Feinberg secured in New York Supreme Court the dismissal of a claim brought against our client in a legal malpractice action.

The case was filed by a plaintiff who sued her former attorneys for allegedly failing to add in a timely manner a volunteer ambulance company to a lawsuit she initiated following a car accident. The plaintiff was treated for injuries at the scene and during that treatment, EMS — in …

Uh oh. Surveyed legal malpractice insurance carriers pointed to sympathetic jurors and aversion to trying cases as possible explanations for an “all-time high” in claims payouts despite similar year-over-year volume. According to data compiled by Ames & Gough, factors such as runaway verdicts and litigation financing have contributed to the rise in settlements. Those factors are among several accounting for a concept most readers are undoubtedly all too familiar with: social inflation, the increase of claims costs beyond the economic inflation so often in the …