The Third Circuit has rejected an insurer’s appeal of a ruling determining it was too late in filing a legal malpractice action against Margolis Edelstein.
In ruling that plaintiff New York Central Mutual Insurance Co. missed the two-year statute of limitations for malpractice actions, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit said the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s 2014 decision delineating the difference between contract and tort claims trumped any dicta in a 1993 case that noted a lawyer who agrees to take a case for a fee is contractually bound to provide professionally acceptable service.
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