Meade County Bank v. Wheatley

LAMBERT, Justice.

We must revisit our decision in Alagia, Day, Trautwein & Smith v. Broadbent, Ky., 882 S.W.2d 121 (1994), to attempt clarification of its central holding. The Court of Appeals appears to have misunderstood our conclusion with respect to certainty of damages and held that a real estate appraisal which revealed merely a probability of damages was sufficient to commence the statute of limitation with the result being that a legal negligence claim was held to be time-barred. Its conclusion was unmistakably contrary to our conclusion in Broadbent that “[u]ntil the legal harm became…