SCHEIN v. ERNST & YOUNG, LLP

Nos. 4D09-3614, 4D10-4656.

77 So.3d 827 (2012)

Alan SCHEIN and Results Technologies, Inc., a Florida corporation, Appellants, v. ERNST & YOUNG, LLP, a Delaware limited liability partnership, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

January 11, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Scarola , Patrick E. Quinlan of Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A., West Palm Beach, and Robert M. Mayer , Miami, for appellants.

Elliot H. Scherker , Julissa Rodriguez , Paul R. Lipton , Elliot B. Kula , and Brigid F. Cech Samole of Greenberg Traurig, P.A., Miami, and Barry Richard , Laureen E. Galeoto of Greenberg Traurig, P.A., Tallahassee, and Stanley J. Parzen of Mayer Brown, LLP, Chicago, Illinois, for appellee.


LEVINE, J.

Appellants appeal from a judgment in their favor, and appellee cross-appeals. We affirm all issues raised without discussion, with the exception of one issue raised on direct appeal, which we reverse. The issue we discuss is whether Illinois's audit interference doctrine, which permits evidence of a client's negligence only where the client interferes with an auditor's services, should be extended to apply to a third party. We find, under the specific facts...

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