Legal Opinion
O'NEIL v. Vasseur
Idaho Court of Appeals
Decided January 26, 1990No. 17804PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Judge Pro Tem.
In this appeal, Jerry O’Neil challenges the district court's order granting Thomas Vasseur and Norman Gissel’s motion for summary judgment in an action involving alleged attorney malpractice. We affirm.
We are asked by O’Neil to address several questions:
1. If an attorney, by willful neglect and in bad faith, delays obtaining a judgment for his client, should the attorney be held liable for his client’s damages under a bad faith tort theory?
2. If so whether he should be held liable for damages:(a) —associated with completing performance and mitigating damages in the…
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- Gulf Atlantic Life Ins. Co. v. BarnesSupreme Court of Alabama · 1981
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