KITCHENS OF OCEANS, INC. v. McGLADREY & PULLEN, LLP

No. 4D01-3758.

832 So.2d 270 (2002)

KITCHENS OF THE OCEANS, INC. and Albert F. Margus, Jr., Appellants, v. McGLADREY & PULLEN, LLP, an Iowa limited liability partnership, Michael A. Balter, an individual, and Salvatore Catanese, an individual, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

December 11, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

I. Jeffrey Pheterson and Peter H. Schmidt of Schmidt, Pheterson & Bleau, Boca Raton, for appellants.

Ronald B. Ravikoff and Thierry Olivier Desmet of Zuckerman Spaeder, LLP, Miami, and Robert R. Watson Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, Chicago, Illinois, for appellees.


FARMER, J.

This case involves a claim by a client against an accounting firm (auditors) for negligence in its audit of certain financial statements. The trial court granted the auditor's motion to dismiss the claim for failure to state a cause of action. We reverse.

The auditors first argued that the engagement agreement's hold harmless provision barred the client's claim for breach of contract. We disagree.

The engagement agreement provided that auditors...

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