CONTINENTAL CAS. CO. v. PULLMAN, COMLEY, ET AL.

No. 819, Docket 90-7722.

929 F.2d 103 (1991)

CONTINENTAL CASUALTY COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PULLMAN, COMLEY, BRADLEY & REEVES; Aetna Casualty & Surety Company; Frederick L. Comley; John S. Barton; Dwight F. Fanton; Francis A. Smith, Jr.; Samuel A. Gilliland; Raymond E. Baldwin, Jr.; James W. Venman; William B. Rush; Robert J. Cooney; David O. Jackson; Herbert H. Moorin; G. Whitney Biggs; W. Parker Seeley, Jr.; Grove W. Stoddard; Peter J. Dauk; Douglas A. Strauss; Edward Maum Sheehy; James B. Stewart; Jeffrey V. McCormick; Peter W. Oldershaw; Frank B. Cleary; Collin P. Baron; Peter D. Clark; Michael N. Levelle; Robert Morris; James P. White, Jr., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided April 2, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cushing O. Condon, Ford, Marrin, Esposito & Witmeyer, New York City (D. Jeffrey Burnham, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

Jacob D. Zeldes, Zeldes, Needle & Cooper, Bridgeport, Conn. (L. Douglas Shrader and Beverly Stauffer Knapp, of counsel), for defendant-appellee Pullman, Comley, Bradley & Reeves and individual defendants-appellees.

Trudie R. Hamilton, Carmody & Torrance, Waterbury, Conn. (Anthony M. Fitzgerald and William I. Garfinkel, of counsel), for defendant-appellee Aetna Cas. & Sur. Co.

Before KAUFMAN, NEWMAN and McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judges.


McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff, the Continental Casualty Company ("Continental"), appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Nevas, Judge), granting the defendant law firm of Pullman, Comley, Bradley & Reeves ("Pullman") judgment on the pleadings. The district court held that: (1) Continental was not the foreseeable or intended beneficiary of Pullman's legal services in the underlying personal injury...

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