Centerre Bank of Kansas City v. Arthur Young & Co.

BLOOM, Senior Judge:

This is an appeal from an order denying preliminary objections based upon forum non conveniens.

Plaintiffs, five American banks and one French bank, instituted a suit in trespass against Arthur Young & Co. (“Arthur Young”), a nationally recognized CPA firm, and alleged that Arthur Young was negligent in the performance of certain audits of International Systems and Controls Corporations (“ISC”) and that plaintiffs suffered damage by relying on said audits in deciding to make certain loans to ISC. Arthur Young filed preliminary objections raising the doctrine of forum non…