An Atlantic City, N.J., lawyer has just learned the hard way that a client’s seeming nonchalance over dismissal of her case due to the lawyer’s error doesn’t make for a license to conceal it from the malpractice insurer.
U.S. District Judge Noel Hillman in Camden, N.J., ruled on summary judgment Wednesday that Louis Barbone’s carrier had no duty to defend or indemnify him in a malpractice suit by a former client whose case he botched, even though the client took the bad news well.
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