GENERAL SEC. INS. CO. v. JORDAN, COYNE & SAVITS, LLP

No. 1:04CV1436.

357 F.Supp.2d 951 (2005)

GENERAL SECURITY INSURANCE COMPANY (n/k/a Unitrin Auto and Home Insurance Company), et al. Plaintiffs, v. JORDAN, COYNE & SAVITS, LLP, et al. Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Virginia, Alexandria Division.

February 23, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles B. Wayne, Piper Rudnick LLP, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs.

Jeffrey Jerome Hines, Goodell Devries Leech & Dann LLP, Baltimore, MD, John H. Carstens, Jordan Coyne, Fairfax, VA, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

ELLIS, District Judge.

This diversity legal malpractice action is brought by an insurer against a law firm retained to defend an insured in a personal injury lawsuit arising out of an automobile accident. The insurer's claims are brought through the insurer's attorney-in-fact, a former corporate affiliate that assumed the insurer's liability for the underlying personal injury claim. The following potentially dispositive threshold...

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