Cohen v. Hack

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Paul Wooten, J.), entered January 28, 2014, which, insofar as appealed from as limited by the briefs, denied defendants’ motion to dismiss the legal malpractice claim and to compel arbitration of the breach of contract claim, unanimously modified, on the law, the motion granted to the extent of dismissing the legal malpractice claim, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff does not assert that defendants’ conduct caused the result of his dispute with his disability insurer to be worse than it would have been. Rather, he argues that defendants, in…