Legal Opinion
Reliance National Indemnity Company v. Alston Jennings, Jr. Wright, Lindsey & Jennings, a Partnership
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 10, 1999No. 98-3215PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
Reliance National Indemnity Company (Reliance) brought this action against Alston Jennings, Jr., and his partnership Wright, Lindsey & Jennings (collectively Jennings), for malpractice based on their representation of its insured Eastern Express in a wrongful death case which ended in a large adverse verdict. Reliance now seeks to recover from Jennings the amount it had to pay to settle the earlier case. Issues of malpractice and comparative fault were presented to a jury which found fault on each side and assessed responsibility for the loss at 97% for Reliance and 3%…
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