LaMure v. Peters

OPINION

PICKARD, Judge.

1.This appeal requires us to determine when a cause of action for accountant malpractice accrues, i.e., when taxpayers know or should know of the malpractice of their professional accountants. We must also consider whether various exceptions to the general statute-of-limitations rules, specifically the “altered reasonable person standard,” the “continuous harm doctrine,” or the “continuous representation doctrine,” should be applied in accountant malpractice cases in New Mexico generally or in this case in particular.

2. Plaintiffs, Margaret and David LaMure (the…