Legal Opinion
Gibsland Bank & Trust Co. v. Kitchens, Benton, Kitchens & Black (APLC)
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided May 15, 2013No. 47,763-CWPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Chief Judge.
| ]This is an action for legal malpractice filed by plaintiff, Gibsland Bank and Trust Company (“Gibsland”), against the lawyer who prepared a title opinion, her law firm and their malpractice insurer. The issue in this writ grant to docket is whether the suit filed by Gibsland against defendants, Kitchens, Benton, Kitchens & Black (APLC), Melanie F. McCullough, and First Mercury Insurance Company, was timely. Finding that Gibsland did not bring its action for malpractice within the time constraints set forth in La. R.S. 9:5605, we reverse and render.
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