December 07, 2023
A Second Circuit panel ruled Thursday that an insurer need not cover a legal malpractice suit brought against an attorney and his former firm, rejecting the attorney's argument that some acts the underlying suit alleged circumvented the policy's exclusions.
November 20, 2023
A Second Circuit panel on Monday questioned the extent to which an underlying complaint's factual background fell within an exclusion barring coverage for the complaint's central allegations, in a dispute over claims by an ailing Florida landowner that his own attorney improperly served as his counterparty in a $12 million land deal.
July 19, 2023
A legal insurer has urged the Second Circuit to stand by a U.S. district judge's ruling last year that the company had no duty to defend a legal malpractice claim brought against a New York attorney accused of inducing an elderly client into a bad real estate deal.