Guzick v. Kimball

I cannot disagree with the opinion of the court that, under existing law regarding Minn.Stat. § 544.42, subd. 6(c) (2014), as applied to the parties’ arguments in this particular case of alleged legal malpractice, we must reverse the court of appeals. I write separately to suggest that the controlling case, Brown-Wilbert, Inc. v. Copeland Buhl & Co., 732 N.W.2d 209 (Minn. 2007), both fundamentally misreads the statute and conflicts with our more recent medical malpractice precedent. Brown-Wilbert should be revisited and its key holding overruled.

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The court correctly accepts Guzick’s…