GENERAL ACCIDENT INS. CO. v. SCHOENDORF & SORGI

No. 94-2042.

195 Wis.2d 784 (1995)

537 N.W.2d 33

GENERAL ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA and Quarles & Brady, a Partnership, Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross Respondents, v. SCHOENDORF & SORGI and Northwestern National Casualty Company, Defendants-Respondents-Cross Appellants, Thomas J. RHODA and Fremont Indemnity Company, Defendants-Third Party Plaintiffs-Respondents-Cross Appellants, v. Thomas J. SCHOENDORF, Michael L. Sorgi, Joseph F. Schoendorf, Jr. and John A. Lynch, Third Party Defendants-Cross Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided July 11, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the plaintiffs-appellants-cross respondents, the cause was submitted on the briefs of Terry E. Johnson and Peter F. Mullaney of Peterson, Johnson & Murray, S.C., of Milwaukee. There was oral argument by Peter F. Mullaney.

On behalf of the defendants-respondents-cross appellants and third party defendants-cross appellants, the cause was submitted on the briefs of Jeffrey J. Liotta and Sheila M. Gavin of Hinshaw & Culbertson of Milwaukee. There was oral argument by Jeffrey J. Liotta.

Before Sullivan, Fine and Schudson, JJ.


FINE, J.

This is an appeal and cross-appeal from non-final orders entered by the trial court in a legal/accounting malpractice case.1 We affirm.

I.

In December of 1975, Westridge Orthopedics, Ltd., hired Schoendorf & Sorgi's predecessor law firm and Thomas J. Rhoda, an accountant, to establish a pension and profit-sharing plan for Westridge that would qualify under the Internal Revenue Code. In late 1980, Westridge...

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