COHEN v. HACK

12676, 159052/12.

118 A.D.3d 460 (2014)

986 N.Y.S.2d 482

2014 NY Slip Op 4068

BRIAN COHEN, Respondent, v. MICHAIL Z. HACK et al., Appellants.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.

Decided June 5, 2014.


Plaintiff does not assert that defendants' conduct caused the result of his dispute with his disability insurer to be worse than it would have been. Rather, he argues that defendants, in bad faith and without full disclosure, pressured him into changing from an hourly retainer to a contingency retainer. The only loss he alleges is the additional fees owed to counsel as a result of changing the retainer. This is fatal to his claim for malpractice (see Warshaw Burstein Cohen...

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