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ST. PAUL FIRE & MARINE INS. v. SPEERSTRA

No. A7809-15242; CA A23712.

666 P.2d 255 (1983)

63 Or.App. 533

ST. PAUL FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, a Corporation, and Salem Hospital, an Oregon Corporation, Appellants, v. Sam F. SPEERSTRA, Malcolm L. Brand, Keith J. Bauer, George A. Rhoten, J. Ray Rhoten, Ervin W. Potter, David A. Rhoten, Gary C. Jones and Arthur B. Cummins, Jr., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Oregon.

Decided June 22, 1983.

Reconsideration Denied September 16, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Callahan, Portland, argued the cause for appellants. With him on the brief was Landis, Aebi & Bailey, P.C., Portland.

William L. Hallmark, Portland, argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief were Stephen F. English, and Lang, Klein, Wolf, Smith, Griffith & Hallmark, Portland.

Before BUTTLER, P.J., JOSEPH, C.J., and WARREN, J.

JOSEPH, Chief Judge.

This is a legal malpractice case arising out of the defense of a medical malpractice case. In the latter case, defendant attorneys were retained by St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company (St. Paul) in 1974 to represent its insured, Salem Hospital, in defense of consolidated medical malpractice actions brought by Ned and Opal Crippen against the hospital and five physicians. The Crippens settled with four of the doctors for $550,000, took a...

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