Legal Opinion
Rivera-Velázquez v. Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 16, 2014No. 13-1301PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Attorneys represent clients. A familiar incident of this relationship is that an attorney’s actions within the scope of her representation normally bind her clients. A corollary of this proposition is the sad fact — but the fact nonetheless — that the sins of the attorney are sometimes visited upon the client. This is such a case.
The facts are easily assembled. In March of 2010, plaintiff-appellant Ramiro Rivera-Velázquez, then 58 years old, applied for a job as a boiler inspector with defendant-appellee Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company (the…
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