Silver v. Statewide Grievance Committee

Opinion

This certified appeal concerns the relationship between General Statutes (Rev. to 1993) § 38a-369 (b),1 and rules 1.15 (b) and 1.6 (a) of the Rules of Professional Conduct2 governing the ethical *188obligations of attorneys. The defendant statewide grievance committee appealed upon our grant of certification from the judgment of the Appellate Court, which had concluded that the plaintiff attorney had no ethical duty under rules 1.15 (b) and 1.6 to notify his clients’ no-fault insurance carriers of certain personal injury settlement proceeds received by the plaintiff on behalf of two of his…