CHAPPELL v. KUHLMAN ELEC. CORP.

Nos. 2006-SC-000140-DG, 2006-SC-000144-DG.

304 S.W.3d 8 (2009)

Stephen R. CHAPPELL, Individually and as Partners and/or Employees of Landrum & Shouse, a Kentucky General Partnership, et al., Appellants, v. KUHLMAN ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Appellee. Kuhlman Electric Corporation, Appellant, v. Stephen R. Chappell, Individually and as Partners and/or Employees of Landrum & Shouse, a Kentucky General Partnership, et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied March 18, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth S. Feamster, Guy R. Colson, Fowler, Measle & Bell, LLP, Lexington, KY, Counsel for Stephen R. Chappell, Individually and as Partners and/or Employees of Landrum & Shouse, a Kentucky General Partnership; Thomas M. Cooper, Individually and as Partners and/or Employees of Landrum & Shouse, a Kentucky General Partnership; Landrum & Shouse, a Kentucky General Partnership; and Landrum & Shouse, L.L.P., a Kentucky Limited Liability Partnership.

Robert Dmitri Bobrow, Robert E. Stopher, Boehl, Stopher & Graves, LLP, Louisville, KY, Counsel for Amerisure Mutual Insurance Company, formerly known as Michigan Mutual Insurance Company.

William C. Rambicure, Christopher D. Miller, Rambicure & Miller, PSC, Lexington, KY, John C. Morton, Kurt Richard Denton, Morton Law, LLC, Samuel J. Bach, Henderson, KY, Counsel for Kuhlman Electric Corporation.


Opinion of the Court by Special Justice ROGER CRITTENDEN.

This is a consolidated appeal from a decision of the Court of Appeals in an attorney/malpractice action and an insurance company/bad faith action arising out of a workers compensation case. Both the successful litigant at the trial and appellate level, the Landrum & Shouse law firm, and the unsuccessful litigant, Kuhlman Electric Corporation, petitioned this Court for discretionary review. The Appellee...

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