MERRITT v. GOLDENBERG

No. 5-04-0122.

841 N.E.2d 1003 (2005)

362 Ill. App.3d 902

299 Ill.Dec. 271

David Wayne MERRITT, Sr., Special Administrator of the Estate of David Wayne Merritt, Jr., David Wayne Merritt, Sr., and Tiffany Merritt, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Hopkins GOLDENBERG, P.C., John Hopkins, and Mark Goldenberg, Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District.

November 4, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel F. Konicek, Jeffrey T. Mitchell, Konicek & Dillon, P.C., Geneva, for Appellants.

Morris B. Chapman, Barberis, Bradford & Chapman, Edwardsville, for Appellees.


Justice HOPKINS delivered the opinion of the court:

The plaintiffs, David Wayne Merritt, Sr., individually and in his capacity as the special administrator of the estate of David Wayne Merritt, Jr., and Tiffany Merritt, filed this action against the defendants, Hopkins Goldenberg, P.C., John Hopkins, and Mark Goldenberg, alleging that the defendants committed legal malpractice in obtaining an inadequate settlement in an underlying wrongful-death-and-survival action...

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