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Personal injury defense lawyers face rise in malpractice claims
St. Charles County Business Record, March, 2006 by Nora Lockwood Tooher
(This article was originally published in Lawyers Weekly USA, another Dolan Media publication).
Several years ago, Benjamin H. Hill III defended a malpractice claim lodged against a Florida personal injury defense lawyer by the insurance company that had hired him.
Hill, an attorney in Tampa, Fla., successfully argued that there was no direct attorney-client relationship between the defense lawyer and the insurance carrier, and the claim was dismissed.
Today, however, Hill might have a harder time getting the same result.
In a dramatic change over the past decade, many states now allow insurance ...
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