Ratner v. Lehigh Valley Railroad

This is a motion by the plaintiff for an examination of a defendant before trial. As such, its resolution would normally be quite devoid of complexities. But an issue of attorney-client relationship has been raised which takes this motion out of its usual routine. In the light of the vast and growing number of insurance and indemnity contracts, in which a new element has been added to the traditional professional concept, this issue was expected, sooner or later, to come to the fore. It has on this application, and it must now be resolved.

The common indemnity insurance policy provides in…