Baer v. Law Offices of Moran & Gottlieb

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Mott, J.), entered May 4, 2015 in Ulster County, which granted third-party defendant’s motion to dismiss the third-party complaint.

In December 2004, plaintiffs engaged defendants, a law firm and an individual attorney, to prosecute potential claims arising from the allegedly negligent medical care that their infant son received from March to April 2004. In 2008, defendant Steven Gottlieb, without having filed a complaint in connection with those claims, referred plaintiffs to third-party defendant, David J. Clegg, an attorney with experience in…