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No insurance coverage for attorneys’ fees that were ordered as a “sanction”

By Karen Rubin on December 11, 2014

Money and gavelIf you or your firm were ordered to pay a party’s legal fees as a “sanction” for professional misconduct, would your professional liability insurance cover that payment?

In a recent case, the district court for the Northern District of Illinois left a law firm high and dry, holding that the policy exclusion for sanctions meant…

Posted in Fees, Insurance

Reminder: check for client’s insurance, or you may be liable for malpractice

By Karen Rubin on October 9, 2014

Failing to check whether the claim against your client might be covered by insurance can get you in hot water — or at least keep you there, preventing a speedy exit from a malpractice suit, as a Florida lawyer recently learned.

In Pharma Supply, Inc. v. Stein (PACER access ID required), the client alleged it…

Posted in Competence, Insurance, Malpractice

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