Legal Opinion
Kleeman v. Rheingold
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 4, 1993PublishedCited by 187 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*272OPINION OF THE COURT
Titone, J.
In a prior action brought to recover damages for alleged medical malpractice, plaintiff was nonsuited for failure properly to serve the defendant doctor before the Statute of Limitations on her claim expired. The threshold issue in this second malpractice action, which was brought by plaintiff against the lawyers she retained to prosecute the first, is whether an attorney may be held vicariously liable to his or her client for the negligence of a process server whom the attorney has hired on behalf of that client.
According to the allegations in the present…
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3Cited by187 opinions
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