GREENBERG & COVITZ v. NAT. UN. INS.


711 A.2d 909 (1998)

312 N.J. Super. 251

GREENBERG & COVITZ, a Partnership, and Morton R. Covitz, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. NATIONAL UNION FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF PITTSBURGH, PA, Defendant-Respondent, and David S. Greenberg, Defendant-Appellant, and Spencer Savings Bank, SLA, Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company, Ticor Title Insurance Company, Excell Mortgage Corp., Defendants.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided June 1, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shalom D. Stone, Roseland, for plaintiffs-appellants Greenberg & Covitz and David S. Greenberg, and Morton R. Covitz, appellant pro se (Walder, Sondak & Brogan, attorneys; Mr. Stone and Morton R. Covitz, Englewood Cliffs, of counsel and on the joint brief).

Philip Lindeman, II, Newark, for defendant-respondent National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pa. (Hellring, Lindeman, Goldstein & Siegel, attorneys; Mr. Lindeman, of counsel and on the brief).

Before Judges BROCHIN, WEFING and BRAITHWAITE.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

BROCHIN, J.A.D.

Plaintiff Greenberg & Covitz was a New Jersey law partnership. Plaintiff Morton R. Covitz and defendant-cross-claimant David S. Greenberg are New Jersey attorneys who were partners in that firm. Defendant National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pa. was their insurer against liability for claims alleging legal malpractice. Covitz and the law firm of Greenberg & Covitz sued National...

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