Security Bank & Trust Co. v. Larkin, Hoffman, Daly & Lindgren, Ltd.

OPINION

JESSON, Judge

Appellant Security Bank & Trust, as trustee and personal representative for a decedent, challenges the district court’s dismissal on the pleadings of its legal-*823malpractice claim arising from estate planning services performed by respondent Larkin, Hoffman, Daly & Lindgren. We conclude that because some damage occurred before the decedent’s death, when he signed the estate planning documents pursuant to the attorneys’ advice, the cause of action accrued at that time. Thus, the bank, as personal representative, succeeded to the decedent’s claim under Minnesota’s survival…