Legal Opinion
Cantu v. St. Paul Companies
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 3, 1987PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLiacos, J.
On October 31, 1983, Robert C. Cantu, a physician, commenced this legal malpractice case in Suffolk County Superior Court against attorney Stephen A. Moore and Gaston Snow & Ely Bartlett (hereinafter Gaston Snow), the law firm of which Mr. Moore is a partner. The alleged legal malpractice arouse out of a medical malpractice case brought against Cantu by one of his former patients, Donna Zeller. The St. Paul Companies and St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co. (hereinafter St. Paul Companies) were Cantu’s primary insurers. They retained Gaston Snow to represent Cantu in that case. 2
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2Cases cited12 opinions
- Hendrickson v. SearsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
- White v. Peabody Construction Co., Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
- Greene v. GreeneNew York Court of Appeals · 1982
- Olsen v. Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1983
- Cannon v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
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3Cited by60 opinions
- Herbert A. Sullivan, Inc. v. Utica Mutual InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2003
- Knight v. FurlowDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1989
- International Mobiles Corp. v. Corroon & Black/Fairfield & Ellis, Inc.Massachusetts Appeals Court · 1990
- Grunwald v. BronkeshSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1993
- Jenkins v. StarnsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 2012
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