Matson v. Babcock

ROBERTS, Justice.

The Superior Court (Knox County, Chandler, J.) reported this case pursuant to M.R.Civ.P. 72(c) for review of interlocutory rulings that 1) a legal malpractice claim for failure to notify an insurer of a claim against the insured may be assigned and 2) the statute of limitations began to run on the date the insured discovered or should have discovered the malpractice. Because we hold that the statute of limitations began to run when the malpractice occurred, we direct dismissal of the legal malpractice claim without reaching the assignment issue.

In a prior action Walter Matson…