Toste Farm Corp. v. Hadbury, Inc.

After settling a lawsuit and other related disputes, can a party to the settlement maintain a third-party complaint against the other side’s lawyers for supposedly fostering the litigation that settled? Answering this question in the negative, I respectfully disagree with that portion of the Court’s opinion that allows the maintenance claim in the third-party complaint to survive the lawyers’ dismissal motion. Although I join in the result reached in that portion of the Court’s opinion upholding the Superior Court’s dismissal of the other counts in the third-party complaint — including those…