A legal malpractice insurer has no duty to defend or indemnify a Cumberland County lawyer who allegedly stole more than $780,000 from his clients and gambled much of it away before committing suicide when he learned that he was under investigation, a federal judge has ruled.
As U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III described it in his 38-page opinion in Westport Insurance Corp. v. Hanft & Knight, PICS Case No. 07-2005 (M.D. Pa. Dec. 2007) Jones, J. (38 pages), the case involved “the tragic circumstances that resulted from a lawyer’s double life.”
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