Legal Opinion
Raine v. Drasin
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided June 16, 1981PublishedCited by 95 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*898STEPHENS, Justice.
This appeal involves a malicious prosecution action filed by two physicians against two attorneys who had filed an unsuccessful medical malpractice case against them.
Following a voluntary dismissal of the suit against them, Dr. George F. Drasin and Dr. Ronald J. Fadel filed a malicious prosecution and abuse of process suit against J. D. Raine, Sr., and James H. Highfield, the attorneys who had filed the malpractice suit. The jury returned a verdict which granted each plaintiff $10,000 in compensatory damages, and $15,000 in punitive damages. The trial court dismissed the…
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