COBLE v. ARONSON

No. 93-2980.

647 So.2d 968 (1994)

Richard E. COBLE, as Trustee, Appellant, v. Mark I. ARONSON, Brian Belt, et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied January 24, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph A. Hubert and Harry G. Carratt of Morgan, Carratt and O'Connor, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.

Phillip D. Parrish and Robert M. Klein of Stephens, Lynn, Klein, & McNicholas, P.A., Miami, for appellees-Fine Jacobson, Schwartz, Nash Block & England, P.A., n/k/a Fine, Jacobson Schwartz Nash & Block, P.A., Stuart K. Hoffman and Charles E. Muller, II.

No briefs filed, for appellees-Mark I. Arsonson and Brian Belt.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied January 24, 1995.

STEVENSON, Judge.

In this appeal we must decide whether the plaintiff in a legal malpractice suit "abandoned" his cause of action when he settled a related lawsuit against a third party. Because a favorable outcome of the related lawsuit would not have eliminated every reasonable possibility of redressable harm resulting from the alleged malpractice, we answer the question in the negative. We therefore...

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