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WINSHIP v. GEM CITY BONE & JOINT, P.C.

No. S-07-0246.

185 P.3d 1252 (2008)

2008 WY 68

Stephen R. WINSHIP, Appellant (Defendant), v. GEM CITY BONE & JOINT, P.C., Appellee (Plaintiff).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

June 19, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Representing Appellant: Mark W. Gifford, Casper, Wyoming.

Representing Appellee: C.M. Aron of Aron and Hennig, LLP, Laramie, Wyoming.

Before VOIGT, C.J., and GOLDEN, HILL, KITE, and BURKE, JJ.

KITE, Justice.

[¶ 1] This case presents the issue of whether an attorney, who distributes the proceeds of a personal injury action without paying a medical provider's bills after his client executed, with the attorney's knowledge, an assignment of the proceeds to the provider, is liable to the medical provider for the amount of those bills. We conclude that the attorney is responsible to the medical provider for failing to honor his client's assignment and, consequently...

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